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Abhijeet S
Empty Vessels Besides the Noise Also Bring You A Great Income :
At the next self help group we saw an enterprise that I had never seen before. I saw 5 boys sitting in the porch of mud hut village house banging with hammers on shiny, glinty huge copper vessels.
The whole picture was out of a picture book. These boys sitting with hammers banging away with all their might and making the loudest clang, clang, clang on the vessels I wondered what this was all about...what could it possibly be....it turned out to be a micro-enterprise, and a well paying one at that.
The aluminium foils were bought as sheets, welded together in the back yard, polished and shined and then made into vessels. Then the last stage was beating the empty copper vessels with hammers to make it stronger, yielding in jobs for half a dozen folks and paying them Rs.2000/- a month.
They would need to get ear plugs though I thought to myself, empty vessels truly make the greatest cacophony ever, but Rs. 2000/- is a grand income for those young boys.
We saw a bore well that cost Rs. 25,000/- to be dug. Water harvesting had been implemented for 3-4 years consistently in the surrounding hills and therefore the water table had increased.
Water harvesting is simply creating three 15 feet wide trenches and planting 3-5 seedlings to make sure there is no soil erosion. The water harvesting and bore well made sure there was ample water for the village in the local village well, it was a great sight to see a gushing well charged well…not a familiar site in the Nanded district or Sangli-Satara that lies in the rain shadow.
At the next self help group we saw an enterprise that I had never seen before. I saw 5 boys sitting in the porch of mud hut village house banging with hammers on shiny, glinty huge copper vessels.
The whole picture was out of a picture book. These boys sitting with hammers banging away with all their might and making the loudest clang, clang, clang on the vessels I wondered what this was all about...what could it possibly be....it turned out to be a micro-enterprise, and a well paying one at that.
The aluminium foils were bought as sheets, welded together in the back yard, polished and shined and then made into vessels. Then the last stage was beating the empty copper vessels with hammers to make it stronger, yielding in jobs for half a dozen folks and paying them Rs.2000/- a month.
They would need to get ear plugs though I thought to myself, empty vessels truly make the greatest cacophony ever, but Rs. 2000/- is a grand income for those young boys.
We saw a bore well that cost Rs. 25,000/- to be dug. Water harvesting had been implemented for 3-4 years consistently in the surrounding hills and therefore the water table had increased.
Water harvesting is simply creating three 15 feet wide trenches and planting 3-5 seedlings to make sure there is no soil erosion. The water harvesting and bore well made sure there was ample water for the village in the local village well, it was a great sight to see a gushing well charged well…not a familiar site in the Nanded district or Sangli-Satara that lies in the rain shadow.