Archive for Community Support
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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As a part of the transfer process, both the teachers from Khandeghar were transferred to different village. We were lucky that the incoming teachers were associated with Suhrid foundation already. Hence, we did not have restart the complete process. We would be working on creating office/ storage space at the school since they have to manage with two cramped rooms, wherein most of the items are completely exposed.
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Kaspada villagers approached us for help with their water problems. Their wells dried up almost by end of Feb this year (unlike April in previous years). There is a seasonal river flowing from the village. It experiences flood during main monsoon period, however, it generally dries up by Oct/Nov every year. The same river also recharges wells in monsoon, using which villagers can drag through the entire year for their water needs.
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The academic session ended much before the scheduled time this year due to drought and the training of the teachers for the parliament election. We decided to focus on inducting new schools and community related work.Khomarpada, which is on the west of Vikramgadh, was identified as one of the schools, which we want to cover under our NGO activities. It is a small school with ordinary infrastructure. However, the teacher has taken lot of effort to improve the vegetation not only in the school but even at the village level. Like any other Zilla Parishad school, kids get only rice & dal as part of the mid-day meal. Teacher – with his own initiatives – added more vegetables to make it more nutritious. Additionally, he has encouraged villagers to grow vegetables at large scale apart from taking the conventional rice crop. We would be inducting this school starting June 2019. We would use the expertise of the teachers to improve vegetation across the schools.
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The last leg of the camps included medical checkup at Toplepada and Janathepada. We visited Kaspada and water problems there made us think to work on this area in coming months.
Additionally, we also met ladies of bachatgat (Self Help Group) to discuss different avenues to make earning during their free time.
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Suhrid Foundation has been working with Kaspada school & village for last 5 years. In April 2016, Suhrid Foundation had supported the project of Kaspada villagers on building a check dam. They already had broken check dam which we had reinforced with stone, clay and plastic. This was a medium size checkdam with height of […]
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We organized school visit and camp at Palavpada on the same day. We also visited Barafpada and had a meeting with villagers to understand their problems and also surveyed the possible options on building dam, reservoir to help them with their water resources in the village.
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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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Initially, we had planned for medical camp and tetanus drive for Bahirampada and Palavpada on 28th July 2018. However, due to unavoidable circumstances, we had to postpone it. We decided to cover Khandeghar this time and launch the toilet related project Janathepada. We were accompanied by Rotary club Thane representatives as well. It was quite […]
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