Humanitarian Work.

Humanitarian Work.
At Nalu village on Republic Day, 2022.

A journey in pictures of a 13th month fellowship experience of living and working with underprivileged communities in Rajasthan India from August 2021 to September 2022 as SBI Youth For India Fellow.

Project Synopsis

The journey started with a flight from Chandigarh to Udaipur for a week long orientation at Udaipur with the August Cohort.

Kaya Training Centre of Seva Mandir at Udaipur India
On field trip to nearby villages in Udaipur during orientation
With the board members of SBI Youth For India
Arrived at my partner NGO, SWRC:Barefoot College Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan India
Village Tilonia, Ajmer, Rajasthan India
With the puppet of Bunker Roy, founder of Barefoot College.
Founded Tilonia Learning Club, first initial understanding of working on peer learning concepts.
Organised a library workshop for the community to help them learn about how to utilise a library, here book hunting is game is being played.
Organised a book reading day, with everyone reading aloud there favourite authors
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A small snippet of reading on never loosing courage.

Organised a group study session of Tolstoy's short story in Hindi, a translation of his original story, The Kreutzer Sonata.
Directed an original play in Marvari based on discussions regarding farmer protest in India
Our play poster, performed on Constitution Day of India.
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A small snippet from the play

My team for the play.
With the NGO community post play
Held community debate sessions regarding topics of social concern.
Taught basic English grammar to members of the learning club
After successfully running my learning experiment on a small group for 3 months of stay at Tilonia, it was time to find a village where I could carry on my actual work. For that I did numerous field visits to centres nearby to select a village to work in for the entire fellowship
Handmade puppets at Barefoot College Tilonia
Moonlight night sky at Barefoot College Tilonia
On the way to nearby villages, met with many shepherds and their goats.
Village Tikawara
A simple life
Field Centre, where I lived for a short period of ten days
A field visit to nearby village to understand various perspectives regarding women health, safety and educational status in the community.
Shifted to Nalu Village to start my work on education, initial meetings with village youth for need assessment.
Hoisting the national flag on Republic Day 2022 at Nalu
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A compilation of work done at Nalu, building the first Village Learning Centre.

Link to full article:https://demokraticfront.com/2022/01/17/pu-alumna-established-the-villages-first-ever-library/
Started fundraiser on Ketto for Digital Learning Centre, link to access the fundraiser:https://www.ketto.org/fundraiser/chooseandbecome?utm_medium=copy&utm_content=a02aceb2939118a58b305d71a74f50d8&shby=1&utm_source=internal&utm_campaign=chooseandbecome
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A compilation video of work done at Tilonia, building Rajasthan's first Digital Learning Centre.

Taught English to girls each evening at Nalu.
Teaching and practicing yoga with girls from the village.
Being facilitated at Nalu Government School for work on Digital Learning Center for Women
AT DLC Tilonia, I painted the wall behind with the portrait of Savitri Bai Phule, the first women educator of India
With my wonderful community at Nalu, before fellowship completion.
Final project presentation at SBI Leadership Centre Calcutta, India
Replicated centres based on VLC AND DLC centres in five other villages