Team: Ashfaq Aarbi – Conservation
officer
Vikram Parte – field assistant
Umashankar Yadav – field assistant
Highlights
· Sapling distribution and plantation in 11 villages
· Classroom visits to 17 schools as part of our environment education programme – attended by 759 students
· 6 unemployed youths placed in jobs at Bhopal/Jabalpur at starting salary of Rs 3400/- per month
· One programme to train youths for jobs as security guards
Conservation
With the monsoon setting in across the landscape, our teams have been working to motivate villagers to plant saplings. In July, our Satpuda team organized sapling distribution and planting in both clusters. The details are given in the table above. The saplings were provided free of cost by the Social Forestry wing of the Forest Department. Species distributed and planted included mango, kattal, neem, amla, lemon.
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| Plantation programme at Government Middle School, Anjandana |
Education
During the month, our team made
classroom visits to 17 schools to educate children about nature and wildlife
conservation.
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| Drawing contest on Global Tiger Day, Anjandana |
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| Education programme at Government Middle School, Anjandana |
Employment cell
6 youths from both clusters got
jobs in July with our assistance.
Details of the placements are as
follows:
Training Program
Nehru Yuva Kendra, Hoshangabad, organized
a number of livelihood and skill-enhancement training programmes at Raikheda.
They invited Satpuda Foundation to send candidates from our area of operations
to a programme to train women in tailoring. We identified 20 women from the
Matkuli cluster and sent them to the programme which started on June 1 and is
scheduled to run through August. Satpuda Foundation bore part of the expenses
for the training programme. Women trained under this programme are eligible
for loans under the Chief Minister’s Yuva
Swarozgar Yojna, a programme for youths’self-employment. Our team will
assist the women in their initiative after the completion of training.
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| Candidates at the training programme at Raikheda |
Centre for Entrepreneurship Development of Madhya Pradesh (CEDMAP) regularly organizes livelihood and skill-enhancement training programs at Bhopal. They invited Satpuda Foundation to send candidates from our area of operations to a program to train youths as security guards. We identified 5 youths from the two clusters where we work and sent them to Bhopal for the program, which ran from July 10 to 14. Satpuda Foundation bore part of the expenses for the training program.
