Team:
Bandu Kumare – Field
assistant
Highlights
- 1 water conservation voluntary
work project – check dam near Adegaon
- Follow-up to plantation done
during the monsoon in 6 villages
- Anti-plastic programmes in 2
villages
- 2 nature trails for village
children
- Two voluntary work projects
to clean area surrounding hand pump and well
- Environment education
lectures in 10 schools – attended by 400 students
- 10 film shows on nature and
wildlife – attended by 482 people
- Medical camps in 6 villages - 242 patients treated
- Two visits to Bhagwanpur to
follow up status of relocated villagers
Conservation
As part of our water conservation efforts, Bandu organized a
voluntary work project during January to construct a check/stop dam
on a stream.
The resultant water body will benefit domestic
livestock in the day and wild animals at night. Wild boar, spotted deer,
nilgai and barking deer are spotted regularly in the area with occasional sightings
of leopard.
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| Adegaon: The stream before the check dam was built |
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| Filling the bags with sand to build the check dam |
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| Volunteers pose after completing the check dam |
During the month, Bandu also 6 organized programmes to
follow-up on plantation done during the monsoon months. Last year, during the
monsoon, we had arranged for planting of saplings in different villages. Now,
we are following up to ensure that the saplings get enough water as well as
protection from grazing livestock. Details are given in the table above.
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Katwal - Children of village school
tend to sapling planted during
the last monsoon
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On January 14, Bandu organized an anti-plastic programme at Kondegaon
in which school students cleaned up the main village road of plastic litter and
waste. They then cleaned up the school premises. The litter/waste was then
buried in pits. A similar anti-plastic programme was organized on January 17 at
Bamdeli.
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| Bamdeli - plastic litter being picked up during our anti-plastic drive |
On January 12, Bandu organized a programme to clean the
surroundings next to a well used to draw drinking water at Dewada. Spillover
water had stagnated around the well, creating a bog in which insects were
breeding. The team dug a canal to drain the water away and cleaned up the area
around the well. A similar programme was organized on January 15 at Junona to
clean the area around a hand pump.
During January, Bandu organized 2 nature trails for school
students of Adegaon (Jan 17) and Sitarampeth (Jan 25). On the trails, Bandu
helped the children identify various birds and plants and spoke to them about
nature and wildlife conservation.
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| Adegaon - children and teachers on a nature trail, led by Bandu Kumare |
Education
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| Kondegaon - Bandu Kumare talks to children about nature and wildlife |
Education Van
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Katwal - Film show on wildlife at
Primary School
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MHU
There were health camps in 6 villages in January.
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| Adegaon - patients register for our free medical camp |
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| Free medical camp at Piparheti |
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