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| Project |
Bharathi Trust: Resource Center |
| Location |
Tiruvallur, Tamil Nadu |
| Focus |
Organic farming, alternate school |
| NGO Information |
Bharathi Trust is an organization that works on
the empowerment of the Irula Tribals. Over the years they have helped in the formation of a people's
movement (Sarpam) in the grassroots. The organization continues to act as a catalyst in education,
training, documentation and lobby network that is backed by the people's movement it helped create.
The coordinator and founder of Bharathi Trust is E. Siddamma who is a fellow of Asha for Education.
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| Project Summary |
The project aims at creating a resource center
for communities for primary production, primarily organic farming. The aim is to work on techniques
and practices that allow for agriculture based on local and affordable resources, seeds, etc.
An additional aspect of the project is to work with the children who have dropped out of school and
create an alternate schooling for them. |
| Requested Budget |
$2,500 |
| Status |
Under review |
| Project Coordinators |
Sanjeev Ranganathan |
| Contact Email |
Sanjeev.ranganathan[at]gmail.com |
| Additional Information |
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UPDATES
| DATE |
UPDATE |
| April, 07 |
Anita Komanduri's site visit |
| April, 07 |
Conference call |
| Jan, 07 |
Transcript of video from Santhosh's site visit |
| Jan, 07 |
Santhosh Padmanabhan's site visit report, Dec 06 |
| Jan, 07 |
Article in South Asian |
| Dec,06 |
CSH Presentation |
| Oct,06 |
Talk with Siddamma |
| Oct,06 |
Issue with staff member and resolution |
| Aug,06 |
Staff go to Namalwar's center to learn about organic farming |
| July,06 |
Debate on organic farming with local farmers at the Resource Center |
| July,06 |
Annual Report 2005-06 |
| May,06 |
Staff hired at the resource center |
| Apr,06 |
CSH Presentation II |
| Apr,06 |
CSH Presentation I |
| 16 Apr,06 |
Report on Resource Center Convention |
| Apr,06 |
Project Proposal |
| 18 Mar,06 |
Update from resource center on Tsunami efforts, released laborers |
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