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EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
The School
has launched a major extension programme known as ‘Rain water for
Humanity’ in collaboration with Brown University (USA) and local
panchayath, self help groups (www.raiwaterforhumanity.org
). Through this extension programme, the School envisages to adopt small
villages with an objective of providing basic amenities like drinking
water and sanitation. As a part of this programme the School has installed
a community rainwater harvesting structure with a capacity of 1.1 lakh
liters at Achinakom Panchayath in Kuttanadu region during December 2009.
It is functioning well.
A training programme on water
quality assessment was given to 40 HSS teachers from four districts of
Kerala in collaboration with Suchitwa mission, Local Self Governance
Department, Government of Kerala.
The school extended help to the
District Disaster Management Authority in their disaster management
activities.
1. Rainwater for Humanity
(for more
details...click here)
Rainwater for Humanity is a start-up community project in the Kuttanad
region initiated by Mahatma Gandhi University School of Environmental
Sciences in India and Brown University students and graduates in US.
Rainwater for Humanity uses rainwater harvesting as an entry point to
improve community health and empower women in the Kuttanad region of
Kerala, India. Our vision is a low-cost rainwater harvesting system that
will be affordable and functional in a low-lying wetland region like
Kuttanad. We have started in the Achinakom area of Vechoor Grama
Panchayath in Vaikom Taluk of Kottayam district of Kerala possibly to
establish a sustainable development model viz., the Achinakom Model.
By designing a low cost rainwater harvesting system with financing options
and involving women throughout, we will extend our operations to other
villages in the future. Our local partners include Residents of Achinakom
area in Vechoor Grama Panchayat, Vechoor Grama Panchayath - the Local Self
Government body and the Aiswarya Screw Pine Development Society which is
part of a 8,000-member-strong women’s apex society, Kottayam Jilla Mahila
Thazhapaya Vikasana Federal Samithi (KJMTVFS). The project leaders include
academia and experts from Mahatma Gandhi University, M. S. Swaminathan
Research Foundation (MSSRF), KJMTVFS and Brown University.
learn more at
http://www.rainwaterforhumanity.org
2. Environmental Education Programmes:
The School is the nodal centre for environmental education programmes of C. P. Ramasamy Environmental Education Centre (CPREEC),
Chennai under the Ministry of Human Resource Development and Ministry of
Environment and Forests, Govt. of India.
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