Building Self Reliant Rural Communities in India Photo Gallery

Social Fencing...

The women taken the step and came forward. They facilitated the social fencing in the village.

Gavri - aslo to discuss issues...

Gavri is a religious celebration where people gather to watch the God's stories acted out by a few performers! But a couple of villages used the opportunity to discuss the role of all the communities to manage their forests...

The Committee wins award...

Village groups's initiative of community efforts are being recognized at Ummed Mal Lodha Function by Seva Mandir every year....

Common Property Resources

The local community protecting and working on common land of the village. The village gets together to make decisions for their own good.

We have to discuss it...

A meeting of Village Development Group in the village for their agenda on development of the village...

Women meeting...

The women meeting to decide the matters that is concerned to them...

We all sit together...

Earlier it was not possible for women to attend village meeting but now we all sit together. It took us a long time to understand the significance to equity & equality and the role of women in our society...

Check walls

The village community is building bunds to check soil erosion.

Village Meeting in Ramaj Village

The GVC (Village Developement Committee) is holding a monthly village meeting.

Training of Villager leaders

Training the leaders of GVCs (Village Development Committees) for effective grassroot leadership.