SUMMARY
REPORT
FIELD WORK
5TH SEMESTER 2024
COMMUNITY NAME- MAWBRI
NAME-
ROLL NO-
SEMESTER-
INTRODUCTION
For our 5th semester field work we selected Mawbri village located in
Khatarshnong Laitkroh block East Khasi Hills district Meghalaya. 793015. with
a population of 144 and 25 households. We carried out our field work from 16 th
August 2024 – 2nd November 2024. For this semester we focused in building a
good and meaningful relationship with the community, identifying the areas we
can intervene or assist in\solving their issues or problems, we performed
activities with the locals to build rapport and understand their livelihood and
lifestyle to know about their needs and problems that we can assist in problems
that is in our capacity and apply our theory in the field to improve our skills
working in a community settings.
OBJECTIVE
Building good and meaningful relationship with the community –
To develop mutual trust, understanding, communication and to encourage
participation in activities.
Observe their lifestyle and livelihood – Understand how they live day to
day they live as a community and how to operate as a community.
Understand community needs- Identify the areas we can intervene or
assist in.
Gathering qualitative data- through observation, interviews, survey, etc.
gain in-depth understanding of community dynamics, behaviours, values
and norms.
Evaluating the effectiveness of existing programs, services, or policies
within the community.
Developing solutions – Using the data to design, plan, strategies and
intervene in problems that they may face.
ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT
Sno. Date Activity Objective
1 16/08/24 Meeting with Introducing
elders of the ourselves and
village explaining our
purpose and
objective of our
field work
2 16/08/24 Transect walk Identifying the
surrounding and
resources of the
village.
3 22/08/24 Meeting with the Introducing
headman of the ourselves and
village explaining our
purpose and
objective of our
field work
4 23/08/24 Meeting the Collecting data
teachers of St on the school and
Anthony LP its specialty and
School Mawbri needs.
and game of tail Interacting with
the donkey with the children to
the students build rapport
5 23/08/24 to Survey of the Collecting data
30/08/24 village on the socio –
economics of the
village.
6 27/08/24 Visit to the water Identifying the
source of the resources of the
village village
7 27/08/24 to Observing and Observing how
30/08/24 learning their they earn their
method of livelihood
farming,
producing
charcoal and
animal husbandry
and fishing.
8 27/08/24 to Home visit Visiting
2/11/24 household to
understand their
lifestyle, build
rapport and help
in problems they
may face.
9 13/09/24 Analysis of Analysing the
survey data gathered
from the survey
10 20/09/24 Visit to KVK and Enquire about
MAMETI schemes of
training they
provide.
12 21/09/24 Visit to Enquire about
Mushroom schemes of
Development training they
Centre and provide.
Central Potato
research station
13 26/09/24 Meeting Ec Informing about
members and the various
headman training available
in improving
vegetable
production for
commercial use
and animal
husbandry
14 26/09/24 Searching Searching
location for fund location for fund
raising and raising and
getting getting
permission from permission from
local authorities local authorities
for setting up stall for setting up stall
15 27/09/24 Meeting Project To gather
leader of MBDA information on
rope way project
16 4/10/24 Fund raising Raising funds for
a mini library in
the school and for
white boards
17 9/10/24 Fund raising Raising funds for
a mini library in
the school and for
white boards
18 10/10/24 Visit Shillong Asking book
book fair publishers and
agency for
donation of books
19 17/10/24 Purchase of white
board for the
school and
collection of
donated books
20 18/10/24 Opening of mini
library in the
school and setting
up new white
boards
21 2/11/24 Meeting with Discussing future
headman plans with the
headman and
submission of
survey report
DOCUMENTATION
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1. Meeting with the headman and elders of the community
2. Game of tail the donkey with the
school students
3. Conducting survey and home visit.
4. Activities with the children
5. Fundraising
6. Collection of books for mini- library
7. Opening of mini- Library
8. Observation of farming methods and livestock
farming
LEARNING OUTCOMES
First-hand experience on working in community setting and
understanding the rural way of livelihood and lifestyle.
The community having low population of 144 and only 25 households
have a very close relationship with one another and always take decision
as a whole there is rarely any disagreement among one another.
The community are well educated and aware even if all are not literate
low rate of common problems like alcoholism, no drug abuse, and low
teenage pregnancy, no domestic abuse or much kind of dispute among
fellow community members.
The main source of income are producing Charcoal through burning
wood.
Agriculture is simply practiced to feed their own family.
Major Problems of the community lack of healthcare, transport of person
and goods as it is a 45min trek to the nearest village i.e. Mawmihthied.
There is no ICDS or ANGANWADI but there are two ASHA workers.
If someone gets ill in the village one has to travel to Sohra or Shillong
for medical care
School are available up to only lower primary for further studies students
go to mawmihthied for their high studies or if possible to shillong.
The youths in village help in agriculture or work for the church.
THEORETICAL APPLICATIONS
Use of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) tool of Transect walk to
identify the surroundings and resources of the village
Using tools such as survey, interview, observation and communication to
gather data and information to get a better understanding the livelihood
and lifestyle of the community
Building Rapport using activities like home visit, games with children,
skit and many more.
Process of community organisation of 1) Identifying the problem 2)
Gathering fact and data 3) Action plan and will continue forward.
Used the skills of group thinking, maintaining relationships with
individuals and groups and deciding the programs based on the
community’s needs.
CONCLUSION
With the completion of the survey and identifying process we can focus of
action plan strategies it and implement in for the future we look intervene in the
field of healthcare with the medical camp, skill training and also start with the
proposal for the rope way which can be continued even after our graduation as it
shows a long term commitment with the community.
This Semester allowed us to build a relationship and trust with the community,
understand their lifestyle, livelihood and their needs and would could consider it
good progress.
