Rural Livelihoods & Nature

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

— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, 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

Our help resides in our village forest.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Laborers in our village can get employment apart from farming.

— RAJNIKANT RATNAKAR · Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh

Turmeric farming and processing

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Organic fertilizer making

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Making villages plastic free

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Hydroponic farming

— 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

We want to form a forest committee in our village.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Marketing the produce

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

I like to keep the environment clean.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

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

— Laxmanlal

Forests, river, canal, environment and school

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

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

We have the ability to save the forest.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Unity and brotherhood

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Culture and social practices

— Common Ground

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

Poultry and goatery training

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Skills for self development

— 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

Computer skills

— 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

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

We will follow our traditions. Hmm

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

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

We always found him; he was my friend. He stays for two to three days. He enhances the village's character.

— RAJNIKANT RATNAKAR · Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh

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

— Pankajini Chhatria

Creating public awareness on important issues

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Good morning, buddy.

— RAJNIKANT RATNAKAR · Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh

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

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha