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Hear for you Research Project in India

Second year Arts student Tilda During the winter break nine other Unfortunately, due to the huge demands During this internship we were also doing
Melbourne University students and on development organisations and the ethnographic field work to examine
Carnegie interviewed former Prime
I travelled to India to take part in an lack of staffing available, the app had whether unequal power dynamics
Minister the Hon John Howard overseas research subject. We worked not been worked on since 2016. Our between the ‘Global North’ and ‘Global
at the ‘Hear For You Limited’ tenth in Delhi for one month as volunteer roles were to update and standardise South’ are reproduced or deconstructed
anniversary celebrations. ‘Hear For interns for ‘Restless Development’, the content of the app to meet current during these kinds of university-facilitated
which focuses on empowering young international health standards and ‘global learning experiences’, informing
You’ mentors and inspires teenagers
people through education, particularly conduct qualitative research to organisations such as Australian Volunteers
who are Deaf or hard of hearing in Sexual and Reproductive Health understand young people’s access International (AVI) and the University on
through evidence-based programs Rights (SRHR). Their projects include to phones, the key barriers to SRHR how global learning experiences can be
and services. Tilda wrote ‘A Day educating girls, efforts to end child knowledge and the kinds of changes that best structured to avoid the reproduction of
marriage, normalising menstruation, could be made to popularise the app. global inequalities.
in the Life of a Deaf Student’ for
creating youth resource centres in
Farrago, explaining her personal communities, helping young girls and I worked on the qualitative research side Whilst in India we also had the
challenges and success in the daily women in Delhi’s urban slums to gain of the project, conducting focus groups opportunity to attend a youth forum on
routine of College and University life. workplace skills, engaging parents and in the community with young girls and the sustainable development goals and
communities to support young people’s boys from Jaitpur and Badarpur urban brainstorm ways in which young people
aspirations and inspiring young people village areas in Delhi. We also created in both India and Australia can contribute
to become leaders of the future. an online survey tool that could be towards achieving these important goals.
Farm Trip 2018 Our research work with ‘Restless accessed on a mobile phone app and Overall, it was an incredible experience
aimed to uncover patterns in mobile
On a cloudy Saturday morning, we at us intently as we started to clear fallen a significant impact by helping others Development’ was focused on the phone access, appealing features of which taught me a huge amount about
packed the cars with food and began branches. Tim lit the bundles of branches and giving back to our communities. development of an app they have apps and young people’s level of access social science research, sexual and
the trip to Amphitheatre Farm in after we finished collecting them, stoking Jaan is playing an important role in created called M-Sathi (mobile friend) to SRHR services. We trained 24 young reproductive health issues in India and
Labertouche, Gippsland. Thanks to our a powerful red flame that flew high into her community, by supporting the which contains educational modules ‘Restless Development’ volunteers on the development sector in general. I
drivers, Mrs Davies and James Carey the sky as the dark smoke dissipated. agricultural industry and creating jobs. on puberty, sexual and reproductive how to use this mobile technology to was so inspired by the work of ‘Restless
(residential tutor), six JCH students were JCH students like me can appreciate the health and gender-based violence. gather data. They then went into their Development’ and their visions for a
excited to be travelling to visit Jaan Although the fire brought happiness to opportunities provided by the College In India there is a widespread lack of communities and surveyed the young future of educated and empowered young
Enden (1960), JCH Fellow and former us as we gathered round and roasted and strive to engage so much more education in these areas and a lot of people they knew. We analysed the people. I hope to carry this inspiration
Chair of Council, to help her with marshmallows, the crackle and heat with our very special community. We social stigma surrounding sexual and data we received and created a report into the rest of my degree and use what I
farm work. forced me to reflect on Jaan and her are inspired to volunteer, donate blood, reproductive issues. This makes access for ‘Restless Development’ with the key have learnt to make a positive impact in
farm suffering through Black Saturday make anonymous gifts to another student to SRHR information extremely limited. recommendations for potential changes development in the future.
Upon our arrival, Jaan and her farm in 2009 – the incredible hardship she during our ‘Secret Angel’ Week, or join Due to the huge rise in young people to the app that came from the insights of
manager, Tim, kindly welcomed us with endured, and the resilience she showed the ‘World’s Greatest Shave’ campaign using mobile technology, the app was the young people studied. Naomi Parris-Piper
hot coffee and a scrumptious loaf. At in continuing. Building on the hard to raise funds to help beat blood cancer created to make SRHR information Sarah Stock Scholar
the beginning of September, pale green work of JCH students who helped plant – this year we raised $6341.92! While easily accessible through phones.
trees and grasses heralded spring. The saplings almost ten years ago, we had a JCH helps us develop our academic
mixed smells of grass, a working farm, chance to stand on this thriving land and abilities and potential as students, we
and livestock, along with views of the contribute to those trees’ survival. also contribute to its culture and shape
beautiful landscape, drew us away from its future.
the bustling city to this peaceful farm. On our way back to College, we saw
The mountain ranges hidden in the grey the spectacular sunset. It lit up the end Lily Li
clouds and the cattle just one step away of the trip and imbued the grassland Betty Elliott Scholar
ensured we recognised we were a long with a glorious golden colour. The trip
way from Melbourne. The cattle stared reinforced for me that we could all make

Naomi Parris-Piper
Naomi Parris-Piper
(back row second from left)
(back row second from left)
at the Taj Mahal
at the Taj Mahal
Child’s play down at the farm College Fellow Mrs Jaan Enden (at right) and volunteers
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