October 2012 Activity Report: Pench Madhya Pradesh

Team: Anoop Awasthi – Conservation Officer

            Niranjan Hinge – Field assistant

            Bandu Uikey – Field assistant

 

Highlights

·      1 nature trail for students at Turia

·      Anti plastic campaign at Shaheed Smarak at Turia

·      School campus cleaning at Satosha

·      Medical camps in 6 villages – 208 patients treated

·      Environment education programme in 8 villages – attended by 396 students

·      1 conservation rally at Telia

·      1 nursery set up at GPS Jamuntola

·      Wild life week celebration in Tuyepani, Doodhgaon, Awarghani, Satosha, Telia, Khamrith, Aamajhari, Turia

Conservation:

On Oct 8, Niranjan led 9 children from Turia village on a nature trail in the jungle adjoining the village. On the trail, Niranjan identified various species of local flora and fauna and explained the need for conservation to the children. 

On Oct 12 Niranjan led a team of 8 children of Satosha village in a programme to clean their school campus. Leaves, plastic, paper and other litter had accumulated in the area. The team cleaned the school campus collected the waste matter and disposed of it in a pit.

Campus cleaning at Satosha school

On October 15 Anoop & Niranjan participated in a programme to celebrate the “WORLD HAND WASH DAY” at Government Middle School (GMS), Telia. Anoop explained to the students about the importance of hygiene and clean hands. Our team then organized a rally with hygiene and conservation messages with GMS Telia students.

Conservation and hygiene rally, Telia

Programme for World Handwash Day, Telia

On October 15 our team and NCSA's Mobile health Unit (MHU) team visited Jamuntola to organise a health camp in the village. On the way, they saw a lot of plastic pouches and litter on a ground called “Shaheed Smarak” which is around 1 km from Turia village. Government departments had organized a tribal mela on October 9 at the ground, following which the area was littered with plastic pouches and plastic plates and cups which has been used for refreshments. We motivated a team of students from GPS, Jamuntola to join in a programme to clean up the ground, which is frequented by domestic livestock in the day and by wild animals at night.

The litter was collected in bags and conveyed by the NCSA ambulance to the GPS campus at Jamuntola.

On Oct 20 Anoop and Niranjan visited GPS Jamuntola and gave 100 bags of seedlings to the school to set up a nursery in the school campus.  

Education

In October, our team conducted environment education programmes in 8 schools in our area of operations.

Bandu Uikey conducts an education programme at Tuyepani

Mobile Health Unit (MHU)

We assisted Nature Conservation Society, Amravati in holding 6 medical camps in October.

Medical camp at Telia

Medical camp at Satosha

Awarghani - free medical camp

Telia - medicines being distributed free

Telia - a patient on an IV drip

Wildlife Week

Check our earlier post on our Wildlife Week events.

Tuyepani - prizewinner of a contest held during Wildlife Week