Student Work
Research Issue: Problems faced by Salt pan workers
AIMS AND PROJECT PLAN
The aim of this project is to create awareness about the saltpan workers about the impact of the harsh conditions that they live in and other socio-economic problems faced by them. This is important because saltpan workers are highly uneducated and do not realize the detrimental effects of the work done by them.
The project plan is to investigate the effects of environment and socio-economic factors that affect the lifestyle and income of the saltpan workers. We plan to explore mainly two aspects from a wide range of problems: malnutrition suffered by children and women and children’s education. Globally we planned to focus on their living conditions. To know more about them we visited Maliya (Surendranagar District), which is 100kms far from our city Rajkot. We spent time with for knowing more about their troubles and living conditions. We explored the site with saltpan workers and small organizations. Meeting with the saltpan workers will help us more in our research work and give us an idea of the real life conditions.
RATIONALE
Reading the times of India, once one of the group members came across an article about the saltpans. So we were keen to find out and research on this idea and hence chose this as our focus question and explore more about the issues face by them. After expressing this idea with our teacher, she encouraged us to take up it topic as she was in contact with many NGO’s working for this and she said it would be a good idea for doing this project.
INTENDED OUTCOME
The intended outcome is an informative website to present our findings and make them accessible to the saltpan committees and all people across the world which might encourage them to raise some funds and help for their welfare. The website will contain a section about the major issues faced by them, 2 majorly being MALNUTRITION and EDUCATION. We also plan to meet the District Health officer and present our letter of proposal regarding the issues faced by them and taking some action for it.
The website link is: http://saltpanworkersgpgrp.weebly.com/