Action plan meeting to reducing extra expenses during Festivals and Celebrations

On 27th Oct 2017 a meeting on action plan was held at Uttan Church. Seventeen members from the subcommittee and core committee participated to discuss on the issue of extra expenses incurred during festivals and celebrations.

The occasions highlighted were Festivals like village feast, parish feast, and Christmas. They decided to have a common social gathering to celebrate these festivals at a village. Since it would be difficult to stabilize this initiative from the start, it was decided that few festivals like the parish feast or village feast can be started through each village and later taken up to a common level gathering. Mr. Jude, CC member who has applied this strategy in his zone, gave the example of Mothagoan a village nearby which has a common celebration for the last 3 years. There has been a good response from the villagers for the same and has resulted in a lot of savings.

Mr. Dayanand Patil, CSA staff guided on how to go forward with the issue and convince the locals about the cost difference it would make. He facilitated the planning’s needed for further meetings on this and ways to create awareness with the villagers.

Through this meeting, responsibilities were allotted to conduct future follow up meetings, the time frame, meeting village panch members and creating awareness through street plays, sessions, house visits, zonal and village meetings. 
Location: Uttan, Mira Bhayandar, Maharashtra, India

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