Awareness Campaigns
DATE: 07/03/2012 PLACE: Mahaballipuram TARGET GROUP: Irular Community NO OF PARTICIPANTS: 10,000 (Approx) Every year, on the day of Maasi Maham, persons belonging to the Irular tribe, assemble in large numbers at the Mamallapuram beach and pay their respects to their deity. The International Justice Mission had organized an event for the people gathere through Proscenium- a well known theatre group. Cheer performed a Puppet Show on the Rights of Bonded Labourers. The puppet show had a storyline stressing the importance of education and health, concept of minimum wages and work timings. A few government schemes and laws that will benefit the community were also mentioned. The show garnered good response from the people gathered there.
DATE: 14/03/2012 PLACE: Museum Theatre, Egmore TARGET GROUP: Women, Transgenders & Students NO OF PARTICIPANTS: 150 TamilNadu State AIDS Control Society conducted a program for women in Museum Theatre, Egmore with respect to women’s day and CHEER was asked to perform a puppet show on women’s vulnerability to HIV. The puppets chronicled the story of a woman in which topics such as women’s vulnerability to HIV, importance of Nambikkai Maiyam, periodic medical testing, discrimination on people with HIV and support for people with HIV were covered. The show was well received by the audience.
DATE: 28/04/2012 PLACE: Sarvodhaya, Chetpet NO OF PARTICIPANTS: 120 TARGET GROUP: Girl students of Sarvodhaya Hostel. INTRODUCTION CHEER conducted a puppet show on importance of health and education to school going hostel girls staying in Sarvodhaya, Chetpet during their annual day celebration. ACTIVITY The puppet show stressed the importance of health and education, avoidance of child marriage and option of pursuing vocational training. The show garnered a good response from the people gathered for the program and the students showed great interest and interacted well with the puppets.
DATE: 02/06/2012 PLACE: Kanchipuram ORGANIZATION: Penn Nalam & SMILE Micro Finance Pvt Ltd TARGET GROUP: Members of SMILE Micro Finance Pvt Ltd NO OF PARTICIPANTS: 350 INTRODUCTION Penn Nalam & SMILE Micro Finance Pvt Ltd conducted a program for women in Kanchipuram on breast and cervical cancer and CHEER was asked to perform a puppet show on health issues for women. ACTIVITY The puppet show dealt with the health issues of women and laid emphasis on the importance of regular health checkups. The show earned the attention of the people gathered for the program.
DATE: 10/06/2012 PLACE: Cine Musicians Council, Vadapalani TARGET GROUP: Small Screen Artists INTRODUCTION Penn Nalam & Cine Musicians Council conducted a program for cine artists in Vadapalani on breast and cervical cancer and CHEER was asked to perform a puppet show on health issues for women. ACTIVITY The puppet show was an introduction to the session on breast and cervical cancer. The storyline highlighted the common issues faced by the artistes. The show underlined the need to keep oneself confident and stress free, talked about the importance of being healthy naturally, stressed on suicide prevention and against the abuse of harmonal injections, pills etc.
DATE: 06/08/2012 PLACE: A M Jain College, Meenambakkam ORGANIZATIONS: Penn Nalam, NSS Unit of A M Jain College & Lions Club TARGET GROUP: Girls of Agurchand Manmull Jain College NO OF PARTICIPANTS: 300 INTRODUCTION Penn Nalam, NSS Unit of A M Jain College & Lions Club conducted a program for girls of Agurchand Manmull Jain College in Meenambakkam on breast and cervical cancer and CHEER was asked to perform a puppet show on health issues for women. ACTIVITY The puppet show dealt with the health issues of women and laid emphasis on the importance of regular health checkups. The show earned the attention of the people gathered for the program. lider {slider=PUPPET SHOW-AWARENESS ON BREAST AND CERVICAL CANCER - VALLUVAR KOTTAM} DATE: 06/08/2012 PLACE: Corporation School, Valluvar Kottam ORGANIZATION: Penn Nalam TARGET GROUP: SHGs NO OF PARTICIPANTS: 40 INTRODUCTION Penn Nalam conducted a program for women of SHGs in Corporation School, Valluvar Kottam on breast and cervical cancer and CHEER was asked to perform a puppet show on health issues for women. ACTIVITY The puppet show dealt with the health issues of women and laid emphasis on the importance of regular health checkups. The show earned the attention of the people gathered for the program.
Date – 15/06/2016
Place – Nokia, Oragadam
CHEER team performed a Puppet Show and Organised a Quiz Competition on Waste
Segregation and Environmental Protection @ NOKIA, Oragadam with respect to the
Environmental Day Celebration at their factory. It was an interactive session and
we thank the employees for their active participation.
Date – 20/04/2016
Place – Titan, Hosur
Our Team is very happy to be a part of the Womens Day Celebration @ Titan Company
Limited. First time our team has performed 8 continuous shows between 9 am to 5
pm. It was an interactive session and we have covered around 1000 employees. Our
team enjoyed performing as much as the employees did.
Date – 04/05/2016
Place – Madhavaram truck terminus
Our team performed puppet shows for truck drivers and public on Personal Hygiene, Health, and Waste Segregation at Madhavaram. This show was part of the activities
done by CAG and Apollo Tyres for their project Clean My Transport Nagar. The audience enjoyed the narration by puppets in Hindi.
Date – 13/10/2015
Place – Little flower convent primary school, Ranipet
Magic Bus, a non-governmental organization runs a unique program where local community leaders use a sports & activity based module to deliver vital learning to other
children, changing their lives along the way. Their Activity Based Curriculum (ABC) is a unique model that uses sport activities to build knowledge, skill and
attitude. In 40 sessions per year, children learn about education, health and gender sensitivity, picking up physical, social and emotional skills along the way. CHEER
performed a puppet show on Importance of Sports and Yoga to the students of Little Flower Convent Aided Primary School, Ranipet. We thank Mr.Perumal and Mr.Mathivanan
of Magic Bus for the opportunity given to us in understanding the importance of sports and how it is implemented well with parent & teachers acceptance in the
community and schools along with the school curriculum.
Date – 14/02/2016
Place – Evaans Mat Hr Sec School, Tharamani, Olympia Tech Park, Manapakkam
We are happy to have been a part of the three-day Road Safety Awareness Campaign, organised by ISS Facility Services Pvt. Ltd, for the students of Evaans Matriculation
Higher Secondary School, Tharamani & for the employees of Olympia Tech Park, Guindy & DLF IT Park, Manapakkam. Rosie and her friends performed a show on Road Safety .
It was a very interesting session with a lot of interaction witty the students and employees. Our team enjoyed this activity as much as the audience did.
Date – 04/08/2015
Place – Government middle school, Neelangarai
Cheer team performed a Puppet show on Road Safety Awareness and First Aid Training on 04th August 2015 organised by Alert Organisation for the school students of
Government Middle School, Neelangarai. The students and the faculty members were ecstatic to meet and chat with Rosie, reciting her rhymes, laughing for her jokes and
also getting awareness of the topic in an entertaining and fun way. It was a very interactive session and the team had a good time performing for the kids.
Date – 29/10/2015
Place - Emerson
CHEER team is happy to be a part of the Safety Awareness Program organized by EMERSON for their employees. Our Rosie presented a puppet show on Road Safety, Women
Safety and Child Abuse. It was an interactive session and we had a very good time performing the show for their employees.
Date – 21/11/2016
Place - Chevalier T. Thomas Elizabeth College for Women, Perambur, Chennai
Target group - College Students
Rosie and her friends performed a puppet show on Road Safety organized by Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group (CAG) at Chevalier T. Thomas Elizabeth College for
Women, Perambur, Chennai as part of their one day Road Safety Awareness Program. The students, faculties and guests were excited to meet and chat with Rosie and her
friends, also reciting rhymes along with Rosie and laughing at her jokes. The session was entertaining, interactive and informative.
Date - 27/07/2015 Place - Jawadhu Hills Cheer team has conducted a Two Days Session on Child Abuse, Health & Hygiene, Waste Management, Nutrition and Importance of Education for the students of St.Joseph's Higher Secondary School, Athipet, Jawadhu Hills in association with Chennai Trekking Club. Around 450 students participated in the Awareness Campaign. Puppet Shows, Animated Movies and Presentaions were used as a tool for spreading the awareness.
Date - 24/08/2015 Place - Mundiampakkam, Villupuram ideos were played on topics covering Child Sexual Abuse & Importance of Education. Collage competition was conducted to the students on 'Girl Safety' where the girls portrayed their views on it. Puppet show on Safe & Unsafe Touch was performed to the school students (1000 students), teachers and the parents visited the school during lunch time. When the question “WHO IS A CHILD?” was asked, all the girls from 8th to 12th standard pointed out the toddlers, innocent people, elders, kindergarden kids as a CHILD but they were not aware of the fact that they come under the category of CHILDREN!!! The Census of India – a child means any person below the age of 14 years
Girl children (200 girls) of Ramakrishna Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals Higher Secondary School, Unit-II : Mundiampakkam, Villupuram, were made aware of Child Rights avail to them, POCSO Act 2012 & Online Safety through presentation and v
According to The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) - a child means every human being below the age of 18 years
Though as early as on 2002, the State of Tamil Nadu had enacted the ‘The Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Smoking and Spitting Act’, awareness around the issue it addresses seemed lacking. Everyday as we travel, it has become common to see someone spit or smoke in a public place with little regard to its ill-effects or for that matter even the law. Therefore, from 13.02.2014 to 15.02.2014, Cheer organized a road campaign to publicize this Act. Around forty volunteers occupied ten signals in South Chennai during peak hours, carrying the message that smoking and spitting in public places were offences that would attract penalties. With four colourful human silhouette boards, the volunteers marched before the stop lines during red signals drawing the attention of passers-by. While some were aware of the law, many wondered if it was or if it could ever be enforced effectively.
Place - Chennai
Date - 28/02/2014 Place - Child Haven International, Uthiramerur Mr. Karthik Selvam, our intern had organized a programme at Child Haven Child Haven International, Uthiramerur. Basic Self-Defense was taught by Krav Maga expert Mr.Sriram Kravmaga Sreeram to the older students, while games were organized for the others. Then a puppet show on Child Abuse was performed.
Place - Chennai Aishwarya Paspulate, Aditi Mohan and Akshay D.Bhatia, law students from Christ University, interned with Cheer between October-November of 2013.
As a part of Cheer's internship curriculum, they organized community programmes at 1) Bethany Nursery School - Environmental Awareness, 2) RKM Saradha Vidyalaya School - Disaster Management and Basic First Aid and 3) RBI Primary School - Health & Hygiene, respectively, which were well received by the audience.
Date - 03/03/2014 Place - jawadhu Hills Our intern Mr. Sanjay Sanjay Santhanagopalan had organized a programme at Jawadhu Hills for children and the villagers on Nutrition, Health and Hygiene.
Date - 23/06/2015 Place - Chetpet, Chennai Our Intern Ms.Vandana Menon had organised a programme on Spoken Hindi and Personal Hygiene for 75 girl students of SRS Sarvodaya Hostel, Chetpet. The first Session was on Basic Spoken Hindi by our intern Vandana Menon and later followed by a Puppet Show on Child Abuse by CHEER team and the final session was on Personal Hygiene by Mrs. Rekha Palanivelan an established soft skills facilitator and proprietor of “Rekha’s Elite Nurturing Future Minds”. The Community Organisation was concluded with the Movie Screening to make the students aware of Environmental and child issues. The students were provided with return gifts which included a note pad and a pouch with stationary items. They were given a worksheet containing the basic spoken Hindi taught during the session. And our sincere thanks and gratitude to Ms.Nisha Mohan for providing lunch for all the kids.
Date - 18/11/2014 Place - P.J Gupta’s High School, Ambattur Our intern Ms.Anisha Gupta had organised a programme on Food Waste Management for 300 students of P.J Gupta’s High School, Ambattur. She gave a presentation to the students on waste management and also cheer team performed a puppet show on health and hygiene to the school students.
Date - 15/06/2013 Place - Chennai As a part of Chennai Corporation’s awareness drive, Cheer performed 7 puppet shows on the Dengue Fever Prevention at Wards V and Ward IX, @ Stanely Nagar - Royapuram, Saravanan Stores - Purasaiwalkam, Chennai High School – Appasamy Street, Old Slaughter House – Anjeneyar Nagar, Childrens Hospital, ICH - Egmore, Mayday Park – Chintadripet and the Marina Beach
Date - 24/11/2013 Place - Big FM A day in the Radio Studio !! As a part of their Children's Day special, 92.7 BIG FM Chennai had organized studio tour for school children. We performed a puppet show on environment awareness. The RJ's - Ranjith and Giri interacted with the children and encouraged them to follow their passion.
Date - 02/01/2015 Place - Parry Enterprises Awareness program on HEALTH and HYGIENE at Parry Enterprises
Cheer performed a puppet show stressing on the importance of health and hygiene during manufacturing process, to the employees of Parry enterprises. It was an interactive session and later, team building activities were conducted, which saw the eager and energetic participation of the employees. The values learnt through the activities were analyzed and summarized later.
Date - 16/12/2014 Place - Tata Consultancy Sevices, Velachery Cheer performed a puppet show on Road Safety at TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) Family day event at Velachery held on 6th December 2014. Rosie and her friends made the session very interactive and cheerful. The audience especially adults showed tremendous interest and were informed by various road safety measures through the puppet show.
Date - 26/09/2014 Place - Lennox India Technologies Pvt Ltd CHEER team is happy to be a part of the Road Safety Awareness Campaign organized by Lennox India Technology Centre Private Ltd for their employees. Our Rosie presented a puppet show on Road Safety and Women Safety. It was a very interactive session and we had a very good time performing the show for their employees.
Date - 20/04/2014 Place - Bougainvilla Music School, Royappetah When was the last time you heard or narrated a story to kids? At Bougainvilla Music School, Royappetah, Chennai an evening was dedicated to story-telling and listening. Rosie and her friends put up a small show, which was followed by an audio-reading. The kids were encouraged to spend as much time reading and listening as they do watching TV.
Date - 14/08/2013 place - Daimler India We were excited about performing at Daimler as a part of their I-Day celebrations and we had an amazing audience! A story about where Patriotism stands today, was well received.
Date - 04/11/2013 Place _ MEPZ, Tambaram Work ethics and responsibility was the theme of this CSR programme. Our puppet show was centered around the life of a woman in a tailoring unit. It addresses the issues surrounding truancy, alcoholism and its impact on family life and how these can be rectified. The session also had many icebreakers and team games in which the employees participated enthusiastically.
Date - 01/04/2014 Place - CP Aquacultre We are proud to have participated in the CSR initiative of CP Aquaculture, Sholavarm. Unlike several other companies, CP Aquaculture had made the CSR day a family day, where its employees brought along their families to participate in a day dedicated to Environment Awareness. Our Rosie presented a puppet show on waste segregation and energy conservation.
Date - 04/05/2015 Place - Adyar, Chennai Awareness program on Women Empowerment!
Cheer performed a puppet show on Women Empowerment for the Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group (CAG) employees. The puppet show dealt with issues like Domestic Violence and Harassment of Women at work place and how to address these issues.
Date - 11/08/2015 Place - Thyagavalli CHEER's One Day Workshop covered Waste Management through flash cards, Environmental Exploitation and Protection through videos, Save Earth through Collage, team building activities and newspaper/magazine crafting for Spouse and Kids of employees of E.I.D-Parry (India) Ltd-Bio Products Division, Thyagavalli. The kids were happy to see their mother's making magazine/paper photo frame.
Date - 17/07/2015 Place - M.S.Chellamuthu Trust & Research Foundation Cheer team performed a puppet show on Personal Hygiene for the inmates of M.S.Chellamuthu Trust & Research Foundation and kids of Aakash Special School. Also one day puppetry training was given to the volunteers and staffs of the organisation to spread awareness for the inmates, family members and community to address various issues related to mental health.