India
Environment
Regeneration of Degraded Forest
More Information About this ProjectProject Needs and BeneficiariesPROJECT NEED: Construction of fire-lines for forest fire management; Hiring of 10 ‘watchers’ – one for every 800 acres of land; Hiring of 1 Organizer (over-all in-charge); Soil and water conservation works; Training and meetings of CBOs (for fire-fighting, planting and re-seeding, protecting, management); Tamarind groves’ ‘watchers’; BENEFICIARIES: 1500 marginalized farming families in 8 villages of the second most drought-prone district in India. ActivitiesCreation of Community based organizations (CBOs) in all eight villages (Vana Samrakshana Committees i.e. Forest Protection Committees and Dalit Yuvajana Samithis i.e. Dalit Youth Associations).; ·Protection and Management of Natural resources. Funding InformationTotal Funding Received to Date: $1,200 Funding InformationThis project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available. Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $1,200. The original project funding goal was $10,000. Additional DocumentationThis project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc). ResourcesWhy this Project is ImportantPotential Long Term ImpactRevitalised cosmologies and sustainable life styles of the common people. Reduced migration from these villages. People enabled to meet their immediate basic needs. Cntinuous employment. generated. Project Message
Our vision is to stop the degradation of the land & to find ways to reverse it. We want to green the hills and the land. We want to develop alternative lifestyles. Lifestyles that are sustainable. Who is Running This ProjectContact
C.K. Ganguly, Project SponsorAshoka Innovators for the Public Organization
Learn more about The Timbaktu Collective and the project team. Where this Project is LocatedCountry
This project is located in For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India. When this Project was UpdatedDate Added to GlobalGivingThis project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 20, 2004. How Else You Can Help |
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