Projects

After contacting a vanavasi village, an educated person is selected from the village in consultation with the Gram Samiti and given training. The trained teacher starts a Bal Sanskar Kendra in the village. The tahsil/district in-charge or organising secretary gives directions from time to time, and arrangements are made for regular teacher training.

The source notes that young women are participating as teachers and describes the programme as a way of generating liking and attraction for education across the village.

An educated youth from the village is also selected and trained for teaching and running a Gram Shiksha Kendra. The educational committee visits such schools and training workshops are arranged once every two months.

The source states that 6 Chhatrawas are currently running in the Vidarbha Region, with many students having achieved great heights in academic career. Libraries have also been started for literate vanavasis who cannot make arrangements for newspapers and periodicals while safeguarding their self-employment.

The source explains that vanavasi communities live in remote areas where communication and medical facilities are limited. Doctors of VVKA and co-workers therefore visit villages on a fixed day and time, examine patients, provide medicines and give instructions in the local language.

The project is described as operating in Pandharkawada Tahsil of Yavatmal district, Melghat area of Amaravati district and Bhadravati Tahsil of Chandrapur district.

In the remotest villages, an Arogyarakshak is selected from the village and trained under the guidance of a reputed and competent medical practitioner. The health worker is provided with a box of medicines and gives required medicines as first aid until treatment can be provided by the VVKA doctor at the mobile dispensary.

The source also describes regular training-cum-workshops once every two months.

The villagers come together weekly for traditional Bhajan. The source describes these gatherings as an opportunity for VVKA workers to discuss village unity, education and cleanliness and to emphasise protection of traditional cultural and religious values.

The source describes vanavasi young boys and girls as having talent, capacity, skill and strength for sports. The Khelkud Pramukh keeps contact with villages, brings youths together and trains them in different games and athletics.

After training, youths return to their villages and start Khelkud Kendras for boys and girls. Alongside sports, the programme described in the source seeks to build awareness of culture and traditions, national character and leadership qualities.

Competitions are held at Tahsil, District and regional levels of Vidarbha. Winners are sent to the Eklavya Khelkud Spardha, an All India Sports Meet arranged for vanavasi competitors by Akhil Bharatiya Kalyan Ashram.