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Organization Description
Praja Chetna is
an organization started by Ajay Kumar and friends and have been working
with the Kondhu adivasis since 1994. Ajay has a long history of working
with the dalits and the adivasis, especially with land issues. He was able
to get 5000 acres of land distributed to these people by the government.
He helped form the Kondhu Girijana Samanvaya Committe. Praja Chetna worked
with the DC to issue ration cards to the adivasi people. The Kondhu people
suffer from many problems including isolation by the government, exploitation
by other tribes etc.. Education in the community is close to zero percent.
Praja Chetna aims to bring some education to the community by opening single-teacher
schools in 10 adivasi villages.
Nisarga works with the government and non-governmental organizations to
implement rural development programs. They work with the marginalised
and small action groups in the area of environmental education, appropriate
land use, alleviation of poverty, women-related issues and to promote
voluntary effort in the rural masses.
The project will now be jointly executed by Praja Chetna and Nisarga
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Project Description
It is the aim
of Praja Chetna to open single-teacher schools in these villages and direct
the teachers to work as community organizers. The teachers also work as
community health workers when diseases attack the villages and for wounds.
They will also explain the exploitation by the merchants and the money
lenders in the business of cereals the girijans grow. Praja conducts training
programs for teachers and active youth of the villages once in two months.
Praja Chetna strives to prepare students of 3rd and 4th standard and join
them in Tribal residential schools run by the Integrated Tribal Development
agency(ITDA).
[Project Details]
Type of Education
Formal
Student :
Teacher Ratio
25 : 1
Boy : Girl
Ratio
1 : 1
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