Team: Amit Awasthi – Conservation Officer
Sampathlal
Dhurve – Field assistant
Highlights
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Plantation
programmes in 2 villages – 40 saplings planted
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3
anti-plastic programmes
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3
compost pits constructed in 3 villages
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Community
assistance - 2 shramdaan programmes to clean areas next to well in Sautiya and main village road of Chapri
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Cleaning
of 13 wells used to draw drinking water
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Environment
education programme conducted in 11
villages - attended by 328 students
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3 unemployed
youths placed in local jobs
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Awareness
programmes on vegetable farming in 5 villages
Conservation
During the month, our team took advantage
of the rains to launch plantation drives in the villages. The Forest Department
supplied bamboo saplings, which we
distributed to villagers for planting in their fields. Details are in the table
above.
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| Chapri - village children plant bamboo saplings |
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| Chapri - plantation drive under way |
On September 7, our team of Amit Awasthi and Sampathlal Dhurve organised
an anti-plastic programme at Patpara. They explained to the students of the
Government Middle School about the harmful impact of plastic/polythene on the
environment and motivated them to remove such litter from the village. The
students went around the village, collecting plastic and polythene
litter/waste, which was then buried in a pit on the outskirts of the village.
Similar programmes were organised at Dhamangaon on September 15 and at Manegaon
on September 21.
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| Patpara - students collecting plastic waste during our anti-plastic drive |
We also assisted three villagers in digging
compost pits as part of our goal to encourage organic farming. Details of the
pits are given in the table above.
During September, our team organized 2 programmes to promote public
hygiene and cleanliness as part of our community assistance activities. On September
16, a programme was organized at Chapri in which 16 villagers joined hands to
clean the main village road which had become overgrown with wild growth due to the
heavy monsoon rains.
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| Chapri - above, below: villagers clean the road |
On September 23, a programme was organised at Sautiya to clean the area
next to a well used to draw drinking water. Due to heavy rains, there was heavy
wild growth around the well and grass and weeds had risen to cover the well.
All this growth was removed so that access to the well was clear.
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| Sautiya - area around well before clean-up |
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| Sautiya - area around well after clean-up |
During the month our team also rendered
community assistance by helping to clean several wells used to draw drinking water.
We collected the cleansing agents from the hospital at Mocha and provided the
same to different villages.
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| Chapri - cleaning the well |
Education
During the month our
team organized environment education programmes in 11 schools in the villages
in our area of operations.
Employment Cell
We helped three youths get jobs during the month of September.
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| Santosh Tekam of Samaiya, who got a job with our help |
Our Kanha team has been encouraging local villagers to take up vegetable farming on a commercial basis in a bid to help them generate additional income. There is scope for commercial farming of vegetables due to the large number of hotels and resorts around Kanha. During September, we organised awareness programmes about vegetable farming in 5 villages. The details are given in the table above.
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Chapri - Tulsiram Vyam prepares patch for vegetable farming
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| Dhamangaon - awareness programme on vegetable farming |
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| Batwar - meeting of womens' SHG in progress. Amit explains possible livelihood opportunities to the women. |
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| Chapri - awareness programme on vegetable farming |
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