Pratibha Kamalashri
Kamalashri's Fundraising Page
Fundraising for Dhammaloka
Story
We are Kumarjeev and Kamalashri from India. Thank you for visiting our fund raising page. Please dig deep and sponsor this project online.
We are very grateful to all our donors who helped us running this project for last two years.
We started a new fund-raising campaign for the project for year 2010. For 12 months we need 3800 GBP roughly 6000 USD.
We request you to send this page to your friends so we can raise enough for the year 2010.
Savali A project for women
A radical approach to domestic violence
Domestic violence is a delicate issue, it has o be handled carefully. It is not an issue of victim and aggressor, but establishing a family environment of love, appreciation understanding and care.
We do have a very effective solution to this problem. We help families to understand it’s mechanism and how to deal with it.
The member of a family who is most vulnerable is the person we work with and help her to be able to deal with their own situation and support others. We support the so called victim to play an important part in the family so that "dominant male" and /or other members in the family who are inflicting violence are listened to helped to find nonviolent ways of expressing themselves.
How we do it
We reach out tom women in their homes, we find people who are suffering from domestic violence or are in danger of it. We listen to them using NVC empathy skills. We keep visiting hem as many times as necessary.
We bring together women with similar difficulties and help them share how they are dealing with the problems they face.
We support other family members through mediation and listening.
We offer these women training in NVC.
The process of Nonviolent Communication
NVC helps individuals to connect compassionately,. This compassionate connection leads to understanding. It helps all parties to see what every one needs and find ways that that every one’s needs are met peacefully.
This process heals wounds that people living in the same family have been carrying for many years.
It ensures a life serving atmosphere in the family and helps it’s members to express themselves in ways that others can listen.
Four Steps of NVC
Observation : Observe without judging or dignosing what happened.
Feelings : Identifying what feelings (painful or pleasant) arise.
Needs: See what needs are behind the feelings you experience.
Requests : After identifying needs what practical steps are required to take by oneself or by others involved to transform the situation.
What Difference it makes
1. Stop situations from getting to extreme violence, like killings.
2. Resolves quarrels harmoniously without resorting to the poloce and courts.
3. Prevents acrimonious separation and unites families; with further aid for unification of hearts.
4. Helps so called victims to to introspect; so they see how he change from blaming and judging language to life connecting language makes the difference.
5. Changes he person who thinks of herself as a victim, to a person who is responsible bringing the hearts of a family together.
Our team
Presently we have four members on our team
1. Kumarjeev ( Certified trainer with Center for Nonviolnt Communication) Gives trainings to stffad benificiaries free of cost
2. Kamalashri – is a director of the project, She actively visits the community with her team, five days a week. She leads group meetings practice groups, and mediation sessions. She coordinates with police or government authorities as required.
3. Shubhangi – is one of our staff members, she has been working ith our tema for last one andhalf years.
4. We also have volunteers who visit ad support the project regularly.