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Abhijeet S
PRIDE OF INDIA
A Travelogue on The Opportunity That The Self-Help Group Movement Brings To Rural Mahrashtra :
On 10th July 2004, we traveled to visit the activities of P.R.I.D.E an NGO working in Mahad a taluka in the beautiful Raigad district of Mahrashtra. Raigad falls luckily for its residents directly in the rainbelt of Maharashtra.
The lush green carpet that had sprung up all around Raigad, with the few rain showers was so breathtakingly beautiful that it made one literally feel one was perhaps in Kashmir, England or any other likely part of the world.
A Village Co-Operative with Rs. 75, 00,000/- in Bank
Our first stop was a PRIDE co-operative set up in 1989. Today the Vipul Women's Cooperative Credit Society operative has over 2500 members with a deposit base of Rs.75,00,000/-.
The co-operative has extended in last 10 years duration Rs. 52, 49,000/- to 729 members. Current year cooperative has extended Rs. 2, 71,000 to 287 members. The rest of the money is invested in bank fixed deposits.
All this from one local co-operative in Mahad…talk about resilient rural communities.
India Needs Enthusiastic Teachers:
Our second stop was a balwadi (kindergarten) at Karanjkhol village. To see 40 children just probably 3 feet high from the ground in the ages from 2.5 to 5 was heart-warming. But what truly stole the show was their teacher Sunita.
Her sparkling eyes and unbounded enthusiasm left me speechless as she led her class of tiny tots through the most descriptive poem about the wonder of monsoons, they sang in unision about splashing through the puddles, watching the sun and clouds play hide and seek, all in total unbounded enthusiasm.
A Travelogue on The Opportunity That The Self-Help Group Movement Brings To Rural Mahrashtra :
On 10th July 2004, we traveled to visit the activities of P.R.I.D.E an NGO working in Mahad a taluka in the beautiful Raigad district of Mahrashtra. Raigad falls luckily for its residents directly in the rainbelt of Maharashtra.
The lush green carpet that had sprung up all around Raigad, with the few rain showers was so breathtakingly beautiful that it made one literally feel one was perhaps in Kashmir, England or any other likely part of the world.
A Village Co-Operative with Rs. 75, 00,000/- in Bank
Our first stop was a PRIDE co-operative set up in 1989. Today the Vipul Women's Cooperative Credit Society operative has over 2500 members with a deposit base of Rs.75,00,000/-.
The co-operative has extended in last 10 years duration Rs. 52, 49,000/- to 729 members. Current year cooperative has extended Rs. 2, 71,000 to 287 members. The rest of the money is invested in bank fixed deposits.
All this from one local co-operative in Mahad…talk about resilient rural communities.
India Needs Enthusiastic Teachers:
Our second stop was a balwadi (kindergarten) at Karanjkhol village. To see 40 children just probably 3 feet high from the ground in the ages from 2.5 to 5 was heart-warming. But what truly stole the show was their teacher Sunita.
Her sparkling eyes and unbounded enthusiasm left me speechless as she led her class of tiny tots through the most descriptive poem about the wonder of monsoons, they sang in unision about splashing through the puddles, watching the sun and clouds play hide and seek, all in total unbounded enthusiasm.