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Darshana Pardhi has completed her education up to the fourth grade in the tribal region of Vikramgad. Since her marriage to Devram Pardhi, she has been dedicated to helping her family on the farm and managing household responsibilities. She always dreamt of earning her own income to support her family and improve their quality of […]
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In an area of helping tribals to earn livelihood, we have taken up project of empowering women – by way of teaching them stitching/ embroidery skills. 45 females from Janathepada responded to our propositions to learn some skills. It was planned to work for improving their skills, which can effectively be useful to women of Janathepada to even earn livelihood subsequently.
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The Warlis or Varlis are an indigenous tribe or Adivasis, found in Jawhar, Mokhada, Dahanu and Talasari talukas of the northern Palghar district, parts of Nashik and Dhule districts of Maharashtra, Valsad, Dangs, Navsari and Surat districts of Gujarat. These Warli artists use red mud walls as a canvas for their paintings. Everything about the paintings is earthy and soothing. Warli paintings use geometric shapes mostly a circle, a square and a triangle. These geometric shapes depict different elements of nature.
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We planted more than 100 saplings in the vicinity (along the dam and close to the fields). We should be able to see Neem, Jamun, Moringa, Mango etc over a period of two years. The kids from Kaspada schools did the entire hard work. We distributed saplings and seeds at Khomarpada school as well. Teacher in this school is promoting growing of vegetables along with the conventional rice in Khomparpada village. The support from Hariyali (Mulund based group) was commendable in this initiative – they provided with plants and seeds.
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Visit to do follow-up medical camp at Dadade Ashra Shala. Followed by Visit to Janathepada for supporting seniors students’ education and also supporting Warli Artist
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We had our second phase of the winter camp on 20th Jan 2018. We decided to cover Khandeghar and Guravpada. Both the schools are very close to Vikramgadh with mediocre infrastructure. Khandeghar is a smaller school with 49 students, wherein Guravpada has 85. During the medical camp, it was observed that both the schools have […]
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