Organizations

Call Shakti Vahini or the national helpline Childline to report human trafficking of tribal girls and women:
Shakti Vahini on +91-11-42244224, +91-9582909025 or the national helpline Childline on 1098.
Learn more: https://indiantribalheritage.org/?page_id=21889

“Rural communities certainly need education, but their life is interwoven with many social and cultural issues that must all be taken into account. UNESCO is right to argue that an integrated approach with a holistic view is appropriate.” – Santal educationist Boro Baski in “India’s rural primary schools still have room for improvement” (Development + Cooperation, 22 May 2016)
https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/indias-rural-primary-schools-still-have-room-improvement
https://indiantribalheritage.org/?p=20429

An “unprecedented opportunity” presented at the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples: Report on globally important ecosystem services – BBC News

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By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News, 19 September 2014 | To read the full article, click here >> Recognising the land rights of local people could provide cost-effective protection for many of the world’s tropical forests, a report says. But existing initiatives to tackle deforestation were poorly suited to deal with the issue, it added. … Read more

Recognizing the value of archival photos for community engagement in India and Africa: School of Oriental and African Studies London – Jharkhand

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We have finished our work with our African and Indian communities successfully. […] Our community engagement programme is now beginning to bear fruit. Among the five groups we are working with are the Santal tribe in eastern India and the Mende group in Sierra Leone, where Methodist missionaries took photos in the 1920s-1940s. In both … Read more

The peaceful agitation by Garo and Khasi communities: Challenging displacement and resenting the use of human exhibits in the name of “biodiversity conservation” – Bangladesh

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CLEARINGHOUSE FOR REVIEWING ECOTOURISM, No. 17 To read the full article, click here >> […] The following documents outline the severe ramifications of a governmental “eco-park” programme on ethnic minority groups and their forested hill habitats in Bangladesh. The controversial scheme has become a significant national issue as civil society organizations as well as a number … Read more

Santal flute music: Audio resource by Adivaani.org – West Bengal & Jharkhand

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Listen to two tiro flutes from Kalipathor village. Credits Banam Raja Project © 2014; produced and recorded by Joy Raj Eric Tudu & Luis Gomez (Adivaani.org) For recent reports on “Santal music”, “tribal music instrument West Bengal”, “tribal songs Jharkhand”, “tribal music pargana” or any other topic of special interest, use the search field seen below:

Video | Solar Mamas: Training women from Kenya, Burkina Faso, Columbia, and Guatemala at the Barefoot College – Rajasthan

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In this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary, Solar Mamas, the female students of India’s Barefoot College start their crash course in solar engineering. Coming from rural areas of Jordan, Guatemala, Kenya, Burkina Faso, and Colombia, this classroom experience is completely new to many of the women in attendance.

Source: Video: Culture Shock and Curiosity at the Barefoot College | Watch Independent Lens Online | PBS Video
Address : http://video.pbs.org/video/2285864821/
Date Visited: Sun Jun 15 2014 12:18:16 GMT+0200 (CEST)

About the film

Rafea is 30 years old with four children and a husband who is eager to take a third wife. She is a Bedouin woman living in a small Jordanian village close to the desert. With encouragement from the country’s Ministry of Environment, she leaves her village for the first time to go to the Barefoot College in India to train to become a solar-energy engineer.

The Barefoot College in India was founded by Bunker Roy to provide knowledge and training to the rural poor to empower them to make their communities self-reliant and sustainable. The solar course at Barefoot College has women from Kenya, Burkina Faso, Columbia, and Guatemala.

And now Rafea from Jordan. She is the first Jordanian woman ever to attend such a program, and she dreams of returning to bring much-needed income and talents to support her family and village.

But two months into the program, Rafea’s husband insists that she return home or he will divorce her and take her children. With no real choice in the matter, Rafea goes back to her village and sets out to persuade her husband and other family members that her studies in India benefit everyone.

In her journey away from home, back, and then away once more, Rafea goes through a profound transformation, returning as an educated woman with the skills to earn an income and achieve for her community what others could not.

Source: Solar Mamas | Creating Sustainability by Educating Women | Independent Lens | PBS
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Date Visited: Sun Jun 15 2014 12:30:17 GMT+0200 (CEST)

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