By C.Sivakumar | Programme Manager
THE EARTH TRUST
ORGANIC FARMING TRAINING FOR RURAL WOMEN’s GROUP
A). Earth Trust Provides Primary Health Care Training in Rural villages in the Nilgiris.
We provide and support 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.
Earth Trust has a 12-module programme for rural village women. The Health Program is aimed 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.
At the end of the Health Program, Earth Trust’s farming personnel conduct a one-day organic farming training on setting up of organic herbal as well as kitchen gardens, imparting knowledge so that each family could be self sufficient in growing their own basic vegetables and herbs for medicinal use.
One day Training programme on Organic / Bio Dynamic (BD) Farming for Primary Health Care Trainee-women group
Village : Doddanny
No. of Participants : 8 ladies
Activities:
Panchagaviya Preparation & Usage
Jeevamritham Preparation & Usage
B). The Earth Trust provides Income Generation Programmes (IGP) for rural women to improve their home skills & health issues and help towards their financial improvement. They are given 100 days’ training in Knitting, sewing, embroidery & other craft. When they complete this programme they have the skill to knit & make clothes for their families and can start to generate their own income.
The villages we work with are of farming communities so we take them for exposure visits to organic farming fields where they get awareness about organic farming, health and herbal plants and are encouraged to grow their own kitchen herbal & vegetable garden.
One day Training programme on Organic / BD Farming for IGP women group
Village : Mel Hosahatty
No. of Participants : 12 ladies
Activities:
Panchagaviya Preparation & Usage
Jeevamritham Preparation & Usage
BD Compost Preparation & Usage
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