Activity Update October 2014: Tadoba

Team:

Bandu Kumare – Field assistant

·      Wildlife Week celebrated in villages in our area of operations

·      2 community assistance voluntary work projectss – common areas of village cleaned at Junona and Sitarampeth

·      2 workshops to create awareness about training programmes offered by R-Seti

·      Anti-plastic programmes in 2 villages – Bhamdeli and at Kondegaon

·      Follow-up to plantation done earlier at Dewada and at Sitarampeth

·      Classroom visits to 10 schools as part of our environment education programme – attended by 311 students

·      Film shows on nature and wildlife conservation at 10 places – attended by 345 people.

·      2 visits to follow up on status of relocated villagers of Jamni and Navegaon   

Highlights

On October 16, Bandu organized a programme at Junona to clear the common area and main road of the village. 13 youths from the village joined Bandu in the programme. A similar programme was organized on October 28 at Sitarampeth in which women from the village participated. Photos below: Sitarampeth cleanliness drive

On October 13, Bandu organized an anti-plastic programme at Bamdeli in which 14 students of the village’s Zilla Parishad Primary School participated. Bandu explained the harmful effects of plastic on the environment and the need to keep plastic litter and waste buried so that they aren’t blown by the wind into jungle areas. The children first cleared the main road of the village of plastic litter and waste and later cleared the school premises as well.

One other anti-plastic programme was organized at Kondegaon on October 18.

Bamdeli: burying the litter to prevent it from blowing into the jungle

On October 13, Bandu organized a programme at Dewada to follow up on plantation of saplings done during the monsoon season. This is to ensure that saplings planted during the monsoon are live and have sufficient protection from grazing livestock. 15 students from the village school joined Bandu in the programme.

A similar programme was organized at Sitarampeth on October 18.

Environment Education

Bandu visited 10 schools in October to give lectures on nature and wildlife conservation.

Nature game at Adegaon

Employment Cell

Bandu organized 2 workshops in October to promote awareness about skill-development training programmes offered by Bank of India’s Rural Self-Employment Training Institute (R-Seti) at Chandrapur.

The workshops were organized on October 20 at Katwal and Kutwanda. Mr. Viresh Trivedi, Project Officer, R-Seti, spoke to the youths at the workshops.

Katwal: Mr Viresh Trivedi, Project Officer, R-Seti, speaks to
unemployed young men about livelihood training programmes

Education Van

There were 10 film shows on nature and wildlife in October.

Film screening at Mudholi school