iVolunteer Blog - everything about volunteeringI started my project conducting baselines and assisting SAATHI on their field training on Forest rights and resource management and familiarised myself with the youth leaders and active members of the Gram Sabha who wanted to contribute to the betterment of their village. One of the, Probably the most active and intelligent person was Dasharam […]
She is a very active member of the community from Baghdongri village. Out of the 20 villages I was working with, she was easily one of the most involved and proactive women members. She had been raising her voice in the Gram Sabha where illegal transport of sand from a local rivulet was happening, and […]
One More Time This is a book review of Zeno’s Conscience, an early modernist literary work by Italo Svevo, a name less known outside the literary world but inspired writers like James Joyce to Samuel Beckett, lending concepts to the field of psychoanalysis (Alenka Zupancic, Zizek & others). Zeno has his own way of talking […]
I had been trying to gain the trust of the women so that they would listen to me, even though I was an outsider who didn’t speak their language. Over time, I had been familialised and had started gaining acceptance among the village men and the youth. My office team would tell the villagers we […]
I have been very fond of animals. Dogs, cats, goats, cows, anyone who are mostly harmless, a little used to humans and know how to deceive us with their love and tantrums. I love be around them, especially their pups or kittens. I have a cat named Chakli, who I found when she was a […]
I recently facilitated an exposure visit with 40 youth leaders from 20 Gram Sabhas in Narayanpur as part of my Swar Fellowship journey to Pori village and Rofra Gram Sabha, Khamdogri. We travelled together to understand what community led development actually looks like on the ground when Gram Sabhas take charge of their forests, livelihoods, […]
We think we know something, know what we are doing. Ideas of good and bad. We even decide actions based on such principles which are not very principled, and yet they guide us in our everyday life. I usually feel no one should be left out, what one gets , all should get. And if […]
For reference, do check the post: Reaching the destination (link added at the end) The return was also crazy. The tickets were not confirmed and we didn’t get tatkal either. We now had to figure out realistic ways to reach Kanker and Narayanpur within a budget, in a very short specific period of time and […]
We were informed by the youth team of Madhonar and Kachora that they were ready and will arrange a gram sabha meet where our team, Saathi Ngo would take a 2 day training/awarness. They touched upon numerous themes like management and planning of the community forest resources for the community forest resources management committee, collection […]
Life is strange . And full of unexpected turns. The train which is usually on time and was on that day as well, till that point, got late, as Priyanshu reached 1 full minute after it’s usual on time departure. We got the train, which felt nice. We had nice south indian neighbours next to […]
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