Student Growth & Support

We will follow our traditions. Hmm

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

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

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Computer skills

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Culture and social practices

— Common Ground

Unity and brotherhood

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Poultry and goatery training

— 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 want to form a forest committee in our village.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

They listen carefully to our concerns in the Gram Sabha, but they don't act on our words, and they haven't shown by doing that work.

— Anupama Mahanand · Sundargarh, 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

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

We have the ability to save the forest.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Marketing the produce

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

NTFP related cottage industries

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Laborers in our village can get employment apart from farming.

— RAJNIKANT RATNAKAR · Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh

Forests, river, canal, environment and school

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

In the village, the village assembly is not held on time, and nothing else is done on time either. My opinion is that everything should be on time.

— Anupama Mahanand

Good morning, buddy.

— RAJNIKANT RATNAKAR · Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh

I like to keep the environment clean.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha

Traditional agriculture

— 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

Climate resilient agriculture

— 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

Turmeric farming and processing

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Hydroponic farming

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Organic fertilizer making

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Nature around the villages

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

Making villages plastic free

— Common Ground · Phiringia, Kandhamal, Odisha

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

— Anupama Mahanand

Our help resides in our village forest.

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

— Laxmanlal