Satpuda Foundation aims to protect wildlife and forests across the Satpuda landscape and to promote ecologically sustainable development among rural and urban communities in the region.
Grassroot Level Activities
CONSERVATION
Our focus is on involving local communities in sustainable conservation action which reduces pressure on wildlife and forests.
Activities include:
- Moisture conservation.
- Afforestation.
- Advising villagers to reduce their herds of non milk-producing cattle.
- Assisting villagers in getting gas connections which reduce demand for fuel wood.
- Convincing villagers to adopt forest-friendly measures such as biogas units and helping them get cooking gas connections.
- Educating and assisting villagers in setting up natural barriers against wildlife depredation of crops to reduce human-wildlife conflict.
- Organising community meetings between villagers, Forest Department and district administration officials to help sort out development issues and forge consensus on conservation.
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KANHA, BHAGPUR - CHECK DAM BEING BUILT WITH SILT AND BOULDERS
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Kanha, Chapri - Amit inspects vegetable patch set up by Bhagwat Dhurve with our assistance
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Kanha, Chapri - Range Forest Officer (Khatiya Range) Ansu Alice Barwa, Dy Ranger Patel, Forest Guard (Chapri) Tiwari examine dead fox before burning carcass
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RELOCATED VILLAGER OF SAUNDAD SPEAKS TO VILLAGES FROM FULZARI ABOUT RELOCATION EXPERIENCE
NATURE EDUCATION
- Focus is on moulding tomorrow’s decision makers.
- Programmes emphasise the need to save wildlife and forests.
- Implementation of Kids for Tigers Programme in 25 schools in Nagpur and 10 schools in Akola.
- Activities in villages are undertaken by Conservation officer and field assistants and includes classroom lectures, nature games and activities and jungle walks.
- Besides these routine activities, there are also drawing, essay, painting and poetry competitions.
- Classroom lectures in schools in all villages in our area of operations (115 villages-6 TRs).
- Nature games with conservation message.
- Activities such as drawing and painting with focus on nature and wildlife.
- Nature trails and conservation rallies for village children to sensitise them on need for conservation.
- Total of 2,581 classroom lectures on nature and wildlife conservation.
- 147 nature trails.
- 97 conservation rallies.
- Kanha, Kutwahi - Awareness programme on vegetable farming in progress. Forest Guard Pahel Singh Marko next to Amit Awasthi.
- Kanha, Manegaon -Womens' SHG capacity-building programme.
Target audience is educated on issues like global warming as well.
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PENCH (M P), TURIA - NIRANJAN TEACHES VILLAGE CHILDREN ABOUT NATURE THROUGH A GAME
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PENCH (M P), TURIA - SCHOOL CHILDREN ON NATURE TRAIL ORGANISED BY SATPUDA FOUNDATION
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PENCH (MAH), SILLARI - OUR FIELD ASSISTANT BANDU GUIDES VILLAGE CHILDREN THROUGH NATURE INTERPRETATION CENTRE
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TADOBA, DEWADA - BANDU SHOWS PHOTOS OF BIRDS TO CHILDREN DURING EDUCATION PROGRAMME
Education activities in villages in and around Tiger Reserves including 32 schools in Pench Cluster, 8 schools in tadoba-Andhari and 11 in Kanha.
In Nagpur and Akola, there are full-time co-ordinators and they conduct audio-visual shows in classrooms, take children out for nature walks and bird-watching trails.
The Foundation also has a video player and a LCD projector which are used to play educational movies on field trips to villages.
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PENCH (M P), TURIA - NIRANJAN TEACHES VILLAGE CHILDREN ABOUT NATURE THROUGH A GAME
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PENCH (M P), TURIA - SCHOOL CHILDREN ON NATURE TRAIL ORGANISED BY SATPUDA FOUNDATION
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PENCH (MAH), SILLARI - OUR FIELD ASSISTANT BANDU GUIDES VILLAGE CHILDREN THROUGH NATURE INTERPRETATION CENTRE
Total of 866 film shows on nature and wild life conservation.
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PENCH (M P), TURIA - NIRANJAN TEACHES VILLAGE CHILDREN ABOUT NATURE THROUGH A GAME
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PENCH (M P), TURIA - SCHOOL CHILDREN ON NATURE TRAIL ORGANISED BY SATPUDA FOUNDATION
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PENCH (MAH), SILLARI - OUR FIELD ASSISTANT BANDU GUIDES VILLAGE CHILDREN THROUGH NATURE INTERPRETATION CENTRE
Tadoba, Kutwanda - Ashfaq conducts environment education programme at village Primary School.
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PENCH (M P), TURIA - NIRANJAN TEACHES VILLAGE CHILDREN ABOUT NATURE THROUGH A GAME
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PENCH (M P), TURIA - SCHOOL CHILDREN ON NATURE TRAIL ORGANISED BY SATPUDA FOUNDATION
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PENCH (MAH), SILLARI - OUR FIELD ASSISTANT BANDU GUIDES VILLAGE CHILDREN THROUGH NATURE INTERPRETATION CENTRE
MOBILE HEALTH UNIT
- Objective is to provide free medical care to villagers.
- Focus area is villages in and around Tiger Reserves in central India.
- Conservation Officers and field assistants plan and run medical camps in consultation with Medical Health Unit of sister NGO: Nature Conservation Society Amravati.
- Frequency of camps is weekly and distributed across 4 Tiger Reserves.
- On average, between 150-200 patients get free treatment and medicines every week.
- So far, we have assisted Nature Conservation Society Amravati in holding 737 medical camps across the landscape at which a cumulative total of around 33,800 villagers have been treated.
- Camps used to educate villagers about personal hygiene, clean drinking water.
Click here to see MOBILE HEALTH SERVICE SCHEDULE
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RELOCATED VILLAGER OF SAUNDAD SPEAKS TO VILLAGES FROM FULZARI ABOUT RELOCATION EXPERIENCE
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RELOCATED VILLAGER OF SAUNDAD SPEAKS TO VILLAGES FROM FULZARI ABOUT RELOCATION EXPERIENCE
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RELOCATED VILLAGER OF SAUNDAD SPEAKS TO VILLAGES FROM FULZARI ABOUT RELOCATION EXPERIENCE
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RELOCATED VILLAGER OF SAUNDAD SPEAKS TO VILLAGES FROM FULZARI ABOUT RELOCATION EXPERIENCE
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RELOCATED VILLAGER OF SAUNDAD SPEAKS TO VILLAGES FROM FULZARI ABOUT RELOCATION EXPERIENCE
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RELOCATED VILLAGER OF SAUNDAD SPEAKS TO VILLAGES FROM FULZARI ABOUT RELOCATION EXPERIENCE
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RELOCATED VILLAGER OF SAUNDAD SPEAKS TO VILLAGES FROM FULZARI ABOUT RELOCATION EXPERIENCE
EMPLOYMENT CELL
- Employment Cell initiative, funded by Lifeforce Charitable Trust.
- Target group is unemployed youths who are easy prey to blandishments of poachers and logging contractors.
- Focus is to provide village youths with alternative livelihood options to reduce their dependence on forests.
- Project seeks to provide direct employment as well as enhance skills of candidates to enable them to go in for self-employment.
- Between June 2007 and October 2007, jobs provided to 32 youths from Pench cluster.
- Workshops on alternative livelihood for 58 youths since June.
- Schedule of skill-enhancement workshops in place for coming months.
- Candidates will be provided with training in areas like making food products, running eco-tourism units, making soap, incense sticks, candles, clothes.
- Employment Cell currently focusing on Pench Cluster and will expand activities to other Tiger Reserves in coming months.
- Conducted surveys in all villages on level of unemployment, livelihood issues and opportunities for self-employment within our area of operations.
- Since 2008, the Foundation has held placement workshops / programmes through which 600 unemployed youths have obtained jobs with local hotels / resorts, at nearby urban centres and at Nagpur.
- Since 2008, we have organised 65 training programmes or capacity-building workshops to help village youths find alternative livelihood.
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KANHA - SANTOSH YADAV, OF KHISI, WHO GOT A JOB WITH OUR HELP AT PUG MARK RESORT, KHATIYA.
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KANHA, BHAGPUR - AMIT SPEAKS TO MEMBERS OF SITHALA AND SHARADA SHGS ON SELF-EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES.
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PENCH (MAH), GHATPENDARI - BANDU HELPS NEW RECRUITS OF STPF IDENTIFY PUG MARKS.
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PENCH (MAH), GHATPENDARI - BANDU SHOWS STPF TRAINEES HOW TO LOCATE NETS USED FOR ILLEGAL FISHING.
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PENCH (MAH), GHATPENDARI - BANDU TEACHES TECHNIQUE OF MAKING PLASTER CAST OF PUG MARK TO NEW RECRUITS OF STPF.
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PENCH (MAH), KIRANGISARRA - GEETA DHURVE, WHO IS HEARING- AND SPEECH-IMPAIRED, AND SF'S ANOOP HOLD UP HER HANDIWORK.
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PENCH (MAH), SILLARI - VILLAGERS LEARN FROM SF'S MANDAR ABOUT PRINTING IMAGES ON T-SHIRTS, CAPS AND MUGS FOR SALE TO TOURISTS.
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TADOBA - 5 YOUTHS FROM BHAGWANPUR WHO WERE IDENTIFIED BY US FOR TRAINING IN LIVELIHOOD OPTIONS AT AURANGABAD.
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TADOBA, MOHARLI - AWARENESS PROGRAMME ON SELF-EMPLOYMENT (TAILORING) FOR WOMEN HELD AT OUR OFFICE.
Livelihood Success Stories
- Lantana product sales have generated over 15000 rupees.
- Villagers, whom we encouraged to take up vegetable farming, are earning 500-1200 rupees a week in additional income.
- Village boy progresses from helper to receptionist - Anirudh Shrivas of Pathari (Pench M.P.) started as a helper at Mrignainee Resort at a monthly salary of 1500 rupees. He is now a receptionist at the same resort and earns 7000 rupees a month.
- From helper to storekeeper - Deepak Mularwar of Ghatpendari started as a helper with Tuli Tiger Corridor at a monthly salary of 1200 rupees. He is now a storekeeper at the same resort and earns 5000 a month.
- Ramsa Uikey of Ghatpendri trained as four-wheeler driver through our programme has bought a second hand jeep to ferry villagers.
- Hemant Thakre of Pipariya trained by us as four wheeler driver has got job at MTDC, Sillari as a driver.
- Village boy is now assistant chef at star hotel - Sevakram Verma of Pathari (Pench M.P.) started as a helper at Tuli Tiger Corridor Resort, Turia at a monthly salary of 1200 rupees. He is now assistant chef at Hotel Tuli International, Nagpur and earns 7000 rupees a month.
- Lantana product sales have generated over 15000 rupees.
- Pench (M P), Telia - Village kids compete for time on computer in our IT education initiative.
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