Krishna Radhakrishnan

• Coordination and management of volunteering project called Plenti,an initiave under Accord,Gudalur based NGO working in the area of tribal community development .
• Collaborate with volunteers from UK who are experts in various areas and Partner organizations of Plenti project (Accord, Vidyodaya Tribal school, Ashwini Adivasi hospital ,The real elephant collective and Adivasi Innovation Hub -social enterprises etc) to effectively develop , implement and evaluate short term volunteering projects focusing to serve various developmental needs of tribal communities in Gudalur
• Manage relationships with partner organizations .
• Stay in regular communication with Volunteers and Partner organizations to link suitable skills with relevant needs and continue interventions in the long run .
• Developed feasible strategy for program growth meeting project vision and mission.
• Implemented a 'Tribal Digital Library 'project as part of which a team led by me collected oral stories related to the traditional customs , community life ,livelihood and aspirations of 4 tribal communities of Gudalur . In the later stage these stories will be published in a website in tribal languages as well as in languages like Malayalm,Tamil and English .

Coordinated the project of "Revival of lesser-known art forms," a joint initiative by Dorf Kotal and INTACH (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage)

Main Duties included identifying women groups, creating artist clusters, conducting awareness programs, and regularly communicating with the groups and artist women clusters

Organization and coordination of seminars, conferences, workshops, and other periodic events.

Monitoring and evaluation of the Interventions and periodic reviews of project activities

Documentation of project activities

Training, aligning and networking efforts to accomplish program objectives.

• Provided technical guidance and frequent training sessions to a team of 214 anganwadi workers in the block, to smoothen the transition process into digital reporting of ICDS service delivery and performance evaluation.
• Conducted skill development training sessions to anganwadi workers on various thematic areas related to child and women nutrition and development. Coordinated the implementation of various component projects under the mission.
• During the COVID lockdown time, wrote a module on mental health of children and conducted an online awareness campaign among children and parents in the block with the help of anganwadi workers.
• As part of the state wide Anemia prevention campaign organized by Kerala government in 2021, directed a short film on Anemia prevention among women and children.

• Participated in the impact assessment study of ‘Child Friendly Local Governance (CFLG ) programme' implemented in a set of selected panchayaths across Kerala
• Acquired good hands on experience in field based primary data collection, deployment of various research tools like FGDs, in depth interviews, primary level data analysis and project report documentation.

• Attended calls for help coming to 1098 child helpline, registered cases and monitored the interventions done in each of them by childline’s district based field units. Provided on call emotional support and guidance to callers, whenever the situation demanded.
• This job provided good insights into the multi-dimensional aspects of child rights issues in the country.
• Experience in this field helped to develop sound communication and deliberation skills.
• Received ‘Best Adhoc Executive ‘recognition for the year 2017.

• Introduced new co –curricular activities, clubs and a different field trip culture in the school.
• Started a video library in the school, comprising classic and socially awakening movies and documentaries, from various languages.
• Collaborating with student community, teachers and parents, initiated the project of integrating academic subjects with co- curricular courses like theatre, movie making, etc under the larger idea of making education more humane and giving good social exposure to the children