The Timbaktu Collective works with impoverished people of 8 villages (in drought-prone Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh, India) to regenerate & protect a degraded forest on 8000 acres of land.
PROJECT NEED: Construction of fire-lines for forest fire management; Hiring of 10 ‘watchers’ – one for every 800 acres of land; Hiring of 1 Organizer (over-all in-charge); Soil and water conservation works; Training and meetings of CBOs (for fire-fighting, planting and re-seeding, protecting, management); Tamarind groves’ ‘watchers’; BENEFICIARIES: 1500 marginalized farming families in 8 villages of the second most drought-prone district in India.
Creation of Community based organizations (CBOs) in all eight villages (Vana Samrakshana Committees i.e. Forest Protection Committees and Dalit Yuvajana Samithis i.e. Dalit Youth Associations).; ·Protection and Management of Natural resources.
Revitalised cosmologies and sustainable life styles of the common people. Reduced migration from these villages. People enabled to meet their immediate basic needs. Cntinuous employment. generated.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
