Friday, July 6, 2012

June 2012 Activity Update: Satpura Tiger Reserve

Highlights


·      3 shramdaans (voluntary work projects) during the month to build soak pits
·      Sapling distribution and tree plantation
·    Classroom visits to 18 schools as part of our environment education programme – attended by 269 students.
·    5 unemployed youths placed in jobs at Bhopal/Jabalpur at starting salary of Rs 3300/- per month
·      One training programme for five youths

Conservation: 








During June, we organized 3 shramdaans related to water conservation.

On June 12, field assistant Umashankar Yadav organized a program to dig a soak pit at the Government Middle School (GMS), Anjandana. 10 students from the school joined hands with Umashankar in digging the pit, which will take spillover water from a hand pump in the school premises. The pit will help to recharge the water table around the hand pump.































On June 13, Conservation Officer Ashfaq Arabi organized sapling distribution and plantation at the government Middle School Anjandana and Government Primary School, Dhargaon. The saplings were provided by the Social Forestry wing of the Forest Department. 

On June 16, Umashankar organized a programme to dig a soak pit at the Government Primary school, Dhargaon. 11 students from the school joined hands with him in digging the pit, which will take spillover water from a hand pump in the school premises. The pit will help to recharge the water table around the hand pump.

On June 30, field assistant Vikram Parte organized a programme to dig a soak pit at the Government Primary School (GPS), Khamda. 9 students from the school joined hands with Vikram in digging the pit, which will take spillover water from a hand pump in the school premises. The pit will help to recharge the water table around the hand pump. 

Education

During the month, our team made classroom visits to 18 schools to educate children about nature, wildlife and conservation.


Education programme at Nayakheda































Employment Cell

5 youths from both clusters got jobs in June thanks to our help.
Details of the placements are as follows:












Training programme

Centre for Entrepreneurship Development of Madhya Pradesh (CEDMAP) regularly organizes livelihood and skill-enhancement training programmes at Bhopal. They invited Satpuda Foundation to send candidates from our area of operations to a programme to train youths as security guards. We identified 5 youths from the two clusters where we work and sent them to Bhopal for the programme, which ran from June 25 to 29. Satpuda Foundation bore part of the expenses for the training programme.


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