Volunteers cleaning a waterhole in the park |
Volunteers cleaning a waterhole in the park |
Conservation Officer Mukund helping to put out a forest fire near Sara camp |
Bhajepar - volunteers removing plastic trash from the area adjoining the jungle |
Bolunda - nature education class in Adilok High School |
Jindatola - building a soak pit to help water conservation |
Jindatola - women learning to make candles; part of our initiative to promote alternative livelihoods |
Mangezari - candles made by women after the training |
Free health camp at Umarzari: Dr Anup Burade examines a patient |
THE FULL REPORT
Team:
Mukund Dhurve - Asst.
Conservation Officer
Jivraj Salam -
Field assistant
Surajlal Tekam - Field assistant
Highlights
·
Joined Forest Department staff on 3 patrols
·
5 community assistance voluntary work – programs to clean area next to hand pumps
·
5 anti-plastic programmes
·
4 waterholes cleaned and de-silted
·
Organised 4 classroom environment education
programmes in which 740 students were present
·
Organised 6 medical camps in which 186
patients got free treatment
·
Organised 3 village eco-development
committee (VEDC) meetings
·
Celebrated World Earth Day on April 22 at Adilok
High School, Bolunda in which 104 students and 5 teachers were present
·
Assisted in fighting fires in Sarra camp and
Compartment no. 109
Conservation
Our team organised
5 community assistance programs on April 3, 6, 7, 25 and 28 to clear areas
around hand pumps at Bhajepar, Pitezari, Kodebarra, Mangezari and Jindatola. Unemployed
youths from Mangezari participated in all programmes which were led by Mukund
and Jivraj.
Details of the programmes are given in the table above.
Water had spilled over while people drew from the hand pumps
and had stagnated, leading to proliferation of mosquitoes and insects. Our
teams cleared the area, removing scum and organic growth and dug canals to
drain away the water.
Our team joined the Forest Department in day and night patrols
in Comp. no. 109, 114 and on the road linking Mangezari and Kodebarra. Besides
our staff, volunteers from a youth club at Mangezari also joined in the
patrols. The youth club was set up with our assistance and is mentored by our
Conservation Officer Mukund Dhurve.
During the month, our team organised 5 anti-plastic programmes to clean polythene/plastic litter from villages. The programmes were organised on April 3, 6, 7, 25 and 28 at Bhajepar, Pitezari, Kodebarra, Mangezari and Jindatola villages respectively. Mukund and Jivraj organised the programmes which were attended by villagers and village eco-development committee (VEDC) members. The plastic litter has been kept in our Mangezari office and will be sent to Tiroda for recycling.
The Government of Maharashtra has issued the buffer zone
notification for the Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve. Following this, doubts
have sprung up in the minds of villagers as to how they will be affected by the
notification. Due to the doubts, some villagers are opposing the notification.
To clear these doubts and misgivings, we organised 3 awareness programmes
during April
in Thadezari, Pitezari and Umarzari.
On April 22, World Earth Day, we organised a programme at Adilok
High School, Bolunda in which Mukund Dhurve spoke to the students about
bio-diversity conservation.
During the month, our team
assisted in fighting fires in the forest near Sarra camp and comp. no. 109.
There were 4 education programmes
in April which were attended by 740 students.
Employment Cell activities
We helped 4 villagers in getting
jobs during April.
Employment Cell Training activities
During April, we organised 2 programmes to train members of
women’s SHGs in making candles. This will help them earn additional income and
reduce their dependence on forests.
The first programme was at Mangezari and the second at Jindatola.
Details are given below.
Mangezari programme:
Jindatola programme:
During April, we also sent 8 youths to be trained in data
entry at the Mobile Livelihood Development Centre at Goregaon run by Yuva Parivartan- National Skill Development
Corporation.
Mobile Health Service (MHS)
There were 6 health camps in April.
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