Physical Health India Project #6938

RID POVERTY & HUNGER IN 50 INDIAN TRIBAL VILLAGES

by The Earth Trust

Project Report | Jan 23, 2015
Organic Garden Programme In Schools

By C.Sivakumar | Programme Manager

PUM - Kilkowhatty

THE EARTH TRUST

ORGANIC GARDEN PROGRAMME IN SCHOOLS

The Organic Garden Program is one of the environmental education programs of Earth trust activities. Gardens are brought to life within the confines of small school backyard using organic farming methods, and show students what great change they can produce in their immediate environment. Primarily the programme was implemented intensively in the selected 2 schools on experimental basis for 3 years, which have shown positive sign and enabled for replication of similar service to 14 other rural Panchayat Union Middle Government schools of Nilgiris.

Through the Organic Garden Program, students learn methods of organic farming without the aid of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, growth promoters, or genetic engineering. They are taught to use more natural alternatives, such as organic fertilizer, composting, soil building in nature’s way, and botanical pesticides.

We are helping these schools to develop their organic gardens with the cooperation of parents, teachers, and Earth Trust education team

Besides providing the organic gardening syllabus, segregation of waste ,organic waste converted to compost, little seeds to get started and maintain the organic garden to provide vegetables for mid day meals scheme. When an organic garden has reached a certain degree of success the message is passed to neighboring schools and parents.

These three months the following schools gardens were cleaned & sown with seeds:

School Name Vegetable Seeds No. of Beds

P.U.M. School, Thenalai           1. Beetroot          19 beds
                                                2. Carrot
                                                  3. Fenugreek
                                                  4. Coriander

P.U.M. School, Sogathorai        1. Beetroot             6 beds
                                                  2. Carrot
                              3. Fenugreek

P.U.M. School, Kollimalai          1. Beetroot                11 beds
                              2. Carrot
                              3. Fenugreek
                                  4. Coriander

PUM School, Kilkowhatty          1. Beetroot          10 beds
                                  2. Carrot
                          3. Fenugreek
                      4. Coriander

PUM School, Attady          1. Beetroot          7 beds
                                 2. Carrot
                       3. Fenugreek
                   4. Coriander

PUM School, Gurrency      1. Carrot       27 beds
                           2. Turnip
                         3. Radish

PUM School, Adasolai       1. Fenugreek       19 beds
                                 2. Coriander

PUM School, Thambatty      1. Radish             12 beds
                              2. Greens
                  3. Carrot
                      4. Knokhool

PUM - Attady1

PUM - Attady2

PUM - Thenalai

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Oct 23, 2014
2 Workshops by Earth Trust Nilgiris on Organic Farming and Organic Herbs

By C.Sivakumar | Programme Manager

Adathoda Fresh Leaf

A). Organic Farming Training For Kota Tribe Women’s Group

In the last three months Earth Trust Provided Primary Health Care Training in Kollimalai village in the Nilgiris.
In continuation of the above programme the trainees were given a one-day training on Organic & Biodynamic Farming and on setting up of a herbal & Kitchen garden.

Date              : 04.08.14
Village           : Kollimalai
Beneficiaries   : 24 ladies
Venue           : Earth Trust Resource Farm, Kollimalai

The training imparted technology on organic farming using low external inputs, local natural resources and principles of organic and biodynamic agriculture.

Sessions:

Video show on Slow poisoning of the planet
Overview of Earth Trust Activities
Introduction of Organic & Biodynamic Farming
Improvement of soil fertility measures through biodynamic compost, vermi compost, Amruth soil, green manure, mulching, mixed crop etc.
Setting up an organic kitchen garden
Identification & uses of medicinal herbs
Input preparation

Practicals:

Panchagavya Preparation & Usage
Jeevamritham Preparation & Usage

B) Training Programme On Value Added Products From Organic Herbs & Vegetables

Date : 26.08.14
Beneficiaries : 35 ladies
Venue : Coonoor

Sessions:

Introduction to Earth Trust
Importance of herbal plants
Briefing on value addition through organic herbs & vegetables

Practical Session:
Adathoda cough syrup preparation
Ingredients:

Local Name                    Quantity       Botanical name
Adathoda fresh leaves    700 gms       Adathoda vasica
Sugar                                      1 kg           -
Agraharam                         10 gms       Spylanthus calva
Alpinia Powder                   10 gms       Alpinia calcarata
Clove                                  10 no.s       Eugenia caryophyllata
Cardamom                            4 gms       Elettaria cardamom
Ghee (Clarified Butter)        50 gms           -

Preparation:

Collect the leaves, wash well and let it dry or wipe dry with clean cloth
Chop leaves into fine pieces
Stir-fry leaves with clarified butter for a few minutes till all the moisture is gone
Add two litres of water
Boil until it reduces to one litre
Add powdered alpinia, clove and cardamom
Remove from fire
Stir well and strain the liquid to get a smooth juice
Return the juice to the fire, add the sugar and stir well
When it reaches a honey-like consistency it is ready. Cool and store in bottle/s

Usage: Cold and cough, Bronchitis, Asthmatic problems
Dosage: 15ml syrup with 15 ml of water after meals 3times daily

Adathoda Syrup Preparation Class

Setting Up a Green House

Talking About Herbal Plants

A Class on Herbal Plants

Introduction to Slow Poisoning of the Planet

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Jul 22, 2014
Primary Health Care Training for Kota Tribals in the Nilgiris - The Earth Trust

By C.Sivakumar | Programme Manager

Reflexology Training for Kota Tribes

The Earth Trust Provides Primary Health Care Training to Kota Tribals in The Nilgiris

The Earth Trust provides and supports a process whereby people learn to improve their personal habits and attitudes and to work responsibly for the improvement of health conditions in the family, community and nation. Every member of the health team shares responsibility in providing health education.

It aims to help people make use of their own efforts and education in improving their conditions of living, lodging, good nutrition and prevention of diseases.

It is a means of improving the health of the people by employing various methods of scientific procedures to show the most healthy ways of living.

Recently we conducted the training with the Kota tribes in Kollimalai Village. This is one of the seven villages of Kota, one of the primitive tribes of the Nilgiris district.

Training Period: April 2014 to June 2014

Number of Participants: 22 women.

Earth Trust teaches a 12-module programme for rural women. The Health Program is designed at imparting basic knowledge of the human body along with its various systems, empowering the women with knowledge to be able to handle simple ailments prevalent in villages. At the end of each system they are given traditional herbal plants which are known cures for the treatment of everyday problems pertaining to that particular system.

These plants are distributed to individuals and grown in a community & individual garden, which by the end of the Health Program gives the community a start-up Herbal Kitchen Garden.

The women of Kollimalai were also taught reflexology, massage, Reiki, preparation of homemade remedies for internal and external use, as well as preparation of some basic Siddha supplements.

Herb Medicine preparation – Herbal Teas, Legium, Chooranum, Oils and Syrups

a) Documentation of indigenous herbs & uses

b) Extending knowledge about indigenous plants

c) Preparing Medicine on available plants

d) Preparing Medicines for Primary Health Care conditions

After completing this programme the village women are aware of Hygiene, nutrition & above said information.They are happy to set up a Kitchen Herbal Garden for their own nutrition & primary health care. Now all the women have set up their herbal kitchen gardens.

Kota Tribes Preparing medicines for Primary Health

Herbal Plants distribution for Kitchen Gardens

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