Azad Reading Room
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AZAD READING ROOM
Aman Vedika, 11-1-809/1, Chinta Bavi
(lane beside Sridevi cinema hall),
Chilakalaguda, Secunderabad,
AP-500061 INDIA
Cell phone: 011 91 934 6988 639
91 40 2007 0143 (Land line phone)
E-MAIL: [email protected]
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The Resource Center (ARR) has moved to its NEW location. Once the re-settlement is complete the work of ARR will both continue and expand to make available the resources to local groups, organizations and individuals
The new location is:
Azad Reading Room
Aman Vedika, 11-1-809/1, Chinta Bavi
(lane beside Sridevi cinema hall),
Chilakalaguda,
Secunderabad,
AP-500061 INDIA
Coordinator - Ms. Ambika;
E-MAIL: [email protected]
Cell phone: 011 91 934 6988 639
Land line phone:91-40-27502013
E-MAIL: [email protected]
The grassroots organisations and activists that belong to diverse faiths, castes, class and gender, will be supported actively in a variety of ways by Azad Reading Room . It is necessary for it to identify firstly existing organizations that are working on peace, secularism and justice issues, and necessary support services will be provided. In the event that there are gaps or additional need, the major activities of this resource centre are listed below.
o Exchange and share human resources and information with movements in other states about polarization, communalization and efforts at peace building.
o Network/co-ordinate with resource centers in Andhra Pradesh as well as other states.
o Collect and create resource material to disseminate to various partners and new organizations.
o Monitoring of visual and print media to be informed of trends and incidents of polarization as well as peace building efforts.
o Explore, collect and create appropriate forms of cultural expression and prepare theatre activists to campaign for peace building, promote pluralism and arrest polarization.
o Collect films from various sources and make them accessible to peace volunteers and organizations. Arrange screening, generate discussion to motivate people to understand the need of maintenance of social fabric.
o Arrange talks by eminent people and sharing of experiences in promoting communal harmony.
o Take up study of a) situational analysis b) Educational material and textbooks.
o Arrange/co-ordinate orientation and sensitization training for teachers in collaboration with resource agencies who are already in this line of work.
o Link/organize political orientation sessions for activists, volunteers, representatives of organizations and CBOs, public representatives, govt officials, development workers, teaching community and others.
o Arranging organizations/institutions to prepare materials for teaching in slums.
o Prepare materials for campaign like posters, pamphlets, banners, badges etc. and motivate forums to exhibit them.
o Help other groups to access material forms.
o Encourage and co-ordinate field trips for groups and individuals to be exposed to efforts at peace building.
o Form and co-ordinate the activities of vigilance committee to keep track of the situations and tensions created with communal agenda in general, and to go to areas of communal tensions to enquire into incidents in particular.
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