Farming & Cultural Roots

In the village, women collectively manage their water using the 'chaash' method for farming. Along with this, for family sustenance, they plant trees and various types of vegetation.

— Pankajini Chhatria

We know that even before we go for farm work, we cook, teach the children in school, and then we go back to the farm.

— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha

SHG women plant trees every year for the village environment and take care of them, and also give importance to organic farming.

— Pankajini Chhatria

Laborers in our village can get employment apart from farming.

— RAJNIKANT RATNAKAR · Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh

Poultry and goatery training

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

I have expertise in farming. In farming, we sow paddy, then transplant the seedlings, and harvest the rice crop. And we...

— Pankajini Chhatria

Nature around the villages

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

We will follow our traditions. Hmm

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Skills for self development

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Making villages plastic free

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

The villagers protect the forest like a mother and worship it as a village deity. They build check dams to conserve water flowing in the streams and use it for cultivation.

— Pankajini Chhatria

No, that means we don't go hunting. But now, slowly, people understand that it is about cultural tradition concerning the jungle.

— Priti majhi

No, that means we don't go hunting. But now, slowly, people understand that it is about cultural tradition concerning the jungle.

— Priti majhi

Unity and brotherhood

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

For instance, our girls are bathing in the open, so palm leaves are being used to cover those areas. There is also dirty water in the drain, and we will clean that as well.

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Firstly, there is a situation. For example, regarding the canal, they don't realize that bathing itself makes it unclean. Some villagers were asked to clean these areas. And they complied, cleaning everything in the village. All the wells and tubewells have been cleaned and are now working and being maintained.

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

It feels good to see all the trees, the very green cultivated plants, all the fruits, and the farming activities in the village.

— Anupama Mahanand

Computer skills

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

I like to keep the environment clean.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Creating public awareness on important issues

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

We want to form a forest committee in our village.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Our help resides in our village forest.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

A Gram Sabha is supposed to be held in our village. A Gram Sabha is supposed to be held in our village.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Hello, my name is Jamini. My village is Terabadi, Daringbadi block. I do a lot of social work in our village, and whatever I have said, they have done. And it feels very good, like...

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Forests, river, canal, environment and school

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

We have the ability to save the forest.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Our presence is also necessary in the Gram Sabha, and our opinions are also needed. Therefore, our full voice is appropriate.

— Pankajini Chhatria

The green trees and buildings all around our village are very good.

— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, Odisha

Hello, my name is Jamini. You have their audio Hindi story, a story. It's like the...

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

We like the landscape best where the place is like forests and fields, about what it can always be for me.

— Laxmanlal

Our grammar speaking, everything will be discussed.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Women should do as much as men to keep the house clean and tidy. It should be kept clean.

— Anupama Mahanand