Highlights:
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| Dinesh Kushram at Royal Sylvan Resort, Chapri; his new place of work |
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| Batwar - Students clear away wild growth from the main approach road to the school |
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| Bhagpur - Compost pit being dug in Chetram's backyard |
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| Chapri - Students plant saplings along the road |
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| Chapri - Villagers plant saplings |
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| Manegaon - Volunteers clean the well, which was overgrown with wild vegetation |
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| Patpara - Sampathlal Dhurve conducting environment education programme |
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| Sautiya - Children bury plastic litter, collected from village |
Team: Amit Awasthi – Conservation Officer
Sampathlal Dhurve – Field assistant
Highlights
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2 voluntary
work s for community assistance – school road site area cleaned at
Batwar and area next to well cleaned at Manegaon
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Plantation
programme – 750 saplings planted in 3 villages
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3 awareness
programmes on snake bites
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3 compost
pits dug
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2
anti-plastic programmes
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Environment
education programme conducted in 11 schools - attended by 348 students
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2
unemployed youths placed in local jobs
Conservation
On August 11, Amit and
Sampath organized a programme at Middle School at Sarpanchtola in Batwar. The road
leading to the school was overgrown with weeds and grass due to the heavy
monsoon rains. 25 students from the village joined hands with our team to clean
up the school road.
On August 16, Amit and Sampath led a team
of 8 people in a programme to clear wild growth around a well at Manegaon. Due to
heavy rains, wild growth had proliferated around the well and access to the well was
affected. Our team, which comprised 8 youths
from the village, removed the wild growth and cleaned the area.
As part of our monsoon activities, our
teams across the landscape motivate and organize villagers to
collect seeds, prepare saplings and dig pits so that a plantation drive can be
launched once the rains set it. During August, we helped plant a total of 750 saplings
in 4 villages. The species planted included mango,
kanji, jamun, sitafal, kanher, bamboo.
During August, our team
organized 3 awareness programmes on snakes and snake bites. During the monsoon,
snakes come out of their pits as these get flooded and there is greater
occurrence of humans being bitten by snakes. Our awareness programmes focussed
on teaching villagers how to identify venomous and non-venomous snakes. We also
explained to the villagers what to do when bitten by snakes. Details of the
programmes are given in the table above.
Our team encourages
organic farming as part of our strategy to reduce the impact of chemical fertilizers
on fields adjoining prime wildlife areas. Part of our work includes assistance
to villagers in setting up vermi-compost tanks and compost pits. During August,
we helped 3 villagers dig compost pits – Deenu Pandrey of Manegaon on August 9, Ramsingh of
Dhamangaon on August 16 and Chetram Uikey of Bhagpur on August 22.
On August 26, our team organized
an anti-plastic programme at Sautiya. Amit and Sampath spoke to the students of
the village 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 were then buried in a pit on the outskirts of the village. A
similar programme was organized at Bhagpur on August 28.
Education
During the month our
team organized environment education programmes in 10 schools in the villages
in our area of operations.
Education van programme
There were no film shows in August.
Employment Cell
We helped two youths get
jobs in August.
