Workshops on writing-skills

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Many efforts are taking place in the area of development in Gujarat. Social workers are working carefully on different developmental issues in the interior region. They are having many experiences by doing different developmental efforts. Documentation of these experiences is beneficial to other social workers.

More over, information about special regional issues of different area of Gujarat can also be reached through the documentation. Workers associated with development work do not have expertise in writing about developmental issues. Scarcity of time, less priority to writing works, less understanding and skills of writing and less motivation are some of the reasons for which documentation about developmental issues is not taking place. Considering above issues, Charkha is organizing workshops to develop writing skills of social workers. More than hundred workshops have been organized during the years 1996-2008. Total 2000 participants got expertise in the writing skills. On the demand of different voluntary organization, Charkha is also organizing these workshops all the year. Now Charkha is also organizing these workshops in other states with the association of different voluntary organizations.

Charkha has also organized workshops on documentation and writing skills for State Institute of Rural Ddevelopment (SIRD), ‘Hariyali Yojana’ of rural development department of Gujarat state and State AIDS Control Society. It has also given information and guidance about different developmental issues to students of journalism and social work of different universities. This information is provided individually as well as in groups. Other then this Charkha also organizes workshops of writing skills once in a year and invites representatives of different institutes.

Workers of Voluntary Organizations developed the skill of writing about different developmental issues through these workshops. Some social workers are regularly getting guidance from Charkha as a follow-up camps and developed them for writing too much about developmental issues. Some workers got identity for their write-ups at regional level in good organizations. These workers are publishing their articles independently in local newspapers. Documentation methods of organizations have also improved through these trainings. Some organizations have started publishing their own newsletter.

Topics included in training

• Documentation - Meaning, Importance, Usages
• Selection of Subjects for developmental writing / Case study
  
• Daily note / importance of daily diary
• Important things for improving language
• Important aspects of effective communications
• Points to be considered during information collections
• Primary knowledge building about newspaper world
• Press note writing
• Points to consider for letter writing
• Practice for speed writing
• Monthly, Tri-monthly, Six-monthly and yearly reports, Reports of the workshops, Meeting and Educational tour