Archive for Community Support
Most of the tribals in the Vikramgad area follow the same pattern to earn their livelihood. They grow rice during the rainy season, preserve most of it for themselves, sell remaining small portion for immediate cash and move out of villages for next 6 to 7 months for odd jobs such as working at brick […]
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During the second half of each academic year, we prefer to meet the parents, update about our activities, understand their feedback about the kids and discuss the common plan. With the passage of time, we have been able to streamline quite a few activities at the school level under the guidance of the teachers. However, […]
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We decided to club the medical camp at Janathepada with the parents’ meeting this time. We started off our association with Janathepada in Oct/Nov 2012. We could see tremendous improvement in the infrastructure, gardens, cleanliness, health and hygiene over a period of time. Dedicated and innovative sirs created good library for the students using the […]
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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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Team Suhrid visited Khandeghar and Toplepada on 16th Dec 2017. In terms of the regular Suhrid foundation projects, both the schools are doing well. Both the schools get better support from the government regarding infrastructure as compared to the other schools. However, the awareness amongst the villagers is still not up to the mark. We […]
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We have been working with overall community in our villages – for their health and also water related projects (such as check dam last year). This year, we had convinced them further to enhance their livelihood by taking additional crop or additional activity which increases their regular income. While they are not yet comfortable taking […]
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Just before Diwali, we had completed the first round of eye checkup at the school level. Our teachers had identified 35 cases. During this visit, the teachers brought the kids to Vikramgad for the optometric test. This process had started almost 2 years back and the kids are quite comfortable dealing with refractrometer and actual […]
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As a part of our connect with village, we have been discussing various topics with farmers in the village and what best they can achieve from their farming. Presently, Almost all the farmers take only one crop in a year – rice. This requires them to work on their farm only for 4 months. In […]
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During our survey in the month of March 2016, we were convinced that if the water conservation work is not started in Vikramgad area, we may have to see Latur kind of situation in a few years from now. Though the signs were visible to the villagers as well, they were turning blind eyes towards this […]
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In the month of February 2016, we had visited on our the new school at Barafpada. This is our 11th school at Vikramgad region. During this visit, we realised that this village and in then had no good access to water after January. This led is to think on how can we help them. In […]
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