DESIGN FOR CHANGESCHOOL CHALLENGE 2012

SUBMISSION FORM

Name of School: Aga khan youth and sports board for Eechoda

Address: majeed store ,kumargally nizamabad

FEEL

List the situations/problems in your school/community that bothered you:Misuse of water, electricity, bad habits, bad traffic sense, smoking, tobacco etc

Who was affected by the situation/problem and what did they say?

A lot of people we know and see near schools are into smoking, there is a lot of misuse of electricity and water in school and our houses lot of seniors into bad habits.

IMAGINE

State the problem you chose and why did you CHOOSE it?

Lot of people we see are having tobacco and smoking so we decided to work on stopping that.

List the different solutions you came up with and which one did you choose to implement and why?

Tobacco – its not easy to stop people from eating tobacco but we can spread awareness what happens after eating . we can explore the net and meet doctors and find out diseases caused with that . we can put up photos of diseases around our buildings and shops around etc

DO“ Our story- anti tobacco”

Its one thing very difficult for people to quit or stop but slowly cutting down might help. We all sat together and discussed what we could do to stop people from eating tobacco or stop smoking but we are just too small they would just slap us and walk away. It is a very sensitive issue but very important we have heard of people dieing because of that so we just wanted to give it a try to talk to people into it and also to people whos friends might be into it. We also have seen a lot of family members and our own cousins having gutka and smoking and spitting here and there. They enjoy it

so no one has tried stopping them but we don’t wish to lose them. So we decided to started talking to people. we did not want to upset them we then went and explored what happens after eating that after a week we went back to them with a few pictures of mouth ulcers and cancers and lung infections etc and showed it to them the pictures were not nice to look at very scary when we showed it to them we told them this happens to people who smoke and eat gutka (tobacco) a few knew but a few were shocked and told us its difficult to quit but they would try cutting down slowly. Next day we went to shop keepers and people around asking if they smoke or eat tobacco some agreed if they did some denied but we anyways told them what happens if they eat so even in future they would want to try will not. We don’t know how many would stop but it will be on their minds forever. This is how we chose to begin and we will try to spread this to people we come across. Lets hope this would help in bringing some change.