Activity Update July 2013: Satpura Tiger Reserve

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.

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.

Drawing contest on Global Tiger Day, Anjandana

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.

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.