community effort

Today, Saravanan Thiyagarajan is working in tandem with 20 districts spread across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh where every district has at least 5-6 people actively engaged in lake rejuvenation.

Working their way out of an impossible situation, Kanjikuzhi’s story of organic farming is an amazing example of community empowerment fuelled by local administration.

Today, if you walk along the Jakkur Lake premises, you will find many known and lesser-known medicinal herbs, aromatic shrubs, as well as rare and red-listed endemic trees lining the area, where community and conservation zones coexist.

Annapoorna Charitable Trust is indeed a lifeline for dialysis patients in Kannur, who provide free daily transportation to 16 critical patients to the facility and back.

Starting with a meeting between the municipal representatives, which was followed by conventions and motivational sessions by a Catholic priest to motivate people for contributing generously, the campaign took over a month to materialise.

Irate by the rising amount of garbage in the land due to the lack of occupancy, the residents decided to approach the owner and pitch the idea of an organic farm to him.

Wings, an NGO in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, has been involved in several initiatives in this region but was alarmed as they learnt of the glorious past and the shrinking presence of one such lifeblood of its region - the Rai Gaarh river.

Here are some endearing stories of community effort that will reinstil your faith in the power of people.

Without help from the government, citizens in the state have managed to revamp the classrooms through crowdfunding.

Apart from composting organic garbage, residents of Marathon Onyx have recycled other wastes along with rainwater harvesting.