📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
RUCHI
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will be involved in environmental education in the same area and work with youth workers and community leaders to initiate actions aiming at environmental sanitation, improve climatic changes and restrict global warming. Basically that will include education and awareness creation using various tools but any physical action leading to check Global warming, climate change, depletion of natural resources will be highly appreciated.
🏠 Accommodation on site
This will be basic, simple and shared with common toilets. They will be staying in RUCHI complex accommodation with basic amenities. We shall provide mattresses but the volunteers are required to bring their own bed sheets, sleeping bags and personal toiletries.
Food offered will be simple authentic Indian vegetarian and freshly cooked. Three meals a day will be served. Assistance while cooking is desired of volunteers. Volunteers are free to cook meals of their country choice on every Sunday.
During leisure time, volunteers may plan to visit the Rock garden of international fame in Chandigarh, Pinjore Garden, Shimla and Kasauli Hills.
📍 About the location
This is a mountain area where more than 70% population lives in rural areas and agriculture is the main stay of their survival. Off late, due to deforestation and land degradation, population pressure, unrestricted grazing by animals and indifferent attitude of people towards their environmental sanitation, the people feel the pinch of global warming and climate change. Some recongnise the changes and consequences but the majority fail to understand and correlate it to their life style. Since they still stick to the traditions and follow the age old farming practices their income levels are going down.
Changes in climatic conditions affect their farming and living conditions adversely. The green cover in mountains maintains the environmental balance and controls the climate in the whole country. The resources are sufficient but the people, due to lack of education and awareness, fail to conserve and preserve these resources.
This project is designed to work on these issues and volunteers are required to work with RUCHI team and local people to address some of them.