Financial constraint has always been a barrier to education for lower class people. Even though they get enrolled in municipal schools they needs a minimum number of notebooks to note down their study material for each subjects. In today’s standard of living where a notebook costs 25 rupees, purchasing 10 notebooks becomes a task for [...]
It has been a custom in Gujarati families to load up on each year’s stock of wheat; families have to be doing well in order to do this as it needs a necessary amount of money. Such is not a case for all the families. Women working in the slums of Ramapir no Tekro earn [...]
India has to be lauded for its feature of teaching cricket to every other individual. Children improvise on the skimpiest lanes, pausing and waiting for the vehicles to pass by, making them into cricket playgrounds. Owing to this the children of Ramapir no Tekro have not been exempt to sport as they too have made [...]
At Jeevantirth, we believe in experiential learning. Our structure for conducting the Value Education Program(VEP) is also experiential. This VEP is a partnership program with Naraindas Morbia Budhrani Trust (NMBT) of Mumbai & has been ongoing since the month of July, 2014 in 6 schools of Ahmedabad & 4 schools of Vadodara. Our Facilitators interact [...]
Albert Einstein once said that, “So long as ANY SINGLE CHILD is deprived on this earth; NO invention is great and No discovery is outstanding”. We celebrate children’s day on 14th November, as it is the birthday of India’s first prime minister & the favorite Nehruchacha of all children. On this day, let us take a [...]
28th Sep. was the day when we with a group of 40 youth headed towards the holy river Narmada. The trip was undertaken with an intention to see & observe two most important stages of evolution or revolution. We called this trip “Sangharsh & Sarjan Yatra.” Sangarsh/struggle is a stage where a person or a [...]
Giving is a noble act for all the citizens living on the globe, but for Indians, it is more then a tradition. We have a habit of taking out part for cows & dogs before we take our own meal. We welcome our guests as Gods & we make sure they do not go empty [...]
A unique “Friendship workshop” known as “Bhaibandh Shala” was organized by Jeevantirth with the support of Samvedna Trust on 17th & 18th August at it’s Koba center. Uniqueness of this workshop was that half of the participants were underprivileged youth from Ramapir Tekro, the largest slum of Gujarat, & remaining half were post graduate student of [...]
Aadi Aushadhi Group members are now heading towards being active practitioners of traditional medicine. The induction training workshop for the members of AAG was facilitated by Deepti and Raju on 10th August 2013 at Dediapada in which basic introduction about various organ systems of the human body and content of the Aushadh Peti was discussed [...]
Ruchir, Dhaivat Shah and Jeevantirth team prepared 60 ‘birdfeeders’ for Care4Nature group. These birdfeeders were distributed to the participants of the photography workshop conducted by 50mm Media Productions and C4N. Jeevantirh is planning to make more birdfeeders to raise awareness about the love for nature. […]
