In the past two years, SRDS has been involved in rejuvenating large village community ponds throughout the Gadag District. In this area many of the traditional water bodies that have supplied the villagers with potable water for years, have become degraded, filled with built up silt and overgrown with weeds and other vegetation. Some have been used as… Read More »
This is Bibijan Pathan age -57 She lives in her own house at Kundagol Village, Dharwad District, Karnataka. Her husband passed away two years ago. So she is now her sole supporter. For the past eight years since receiving a microfinance loan, Bibijan as been doing a business selling cloth. She is a member of her local Mabusubani… Read More »
Our Gram Seva Project area received a visit from the President and COO of the SBI Foundation on March 20th. He visited many of the area development programs and in Basapur Village inaugurated the Raita Bandhu – Watershed Initiative Project. During the ceremony, the newly purchased JCB Excavator key was handed over to mark the occasion. The program… Read More »
In Keroshi Village – Balgaum District – the farmers have had a great result after one rainy season. We carried out a pilot bore well recharge project with 5 bore wells. The Fincare Small Finance Bank supported the implementation of our twin ring method of bore well recharge. This was done in May 2022. In early September we… Read More »
In today’s world skill development in rural India is highly important. Lack of proper education and training restricts people from the opportunities for self-advancement by limiting their access to well-paid employment. Hence this prevents them from making an influential contribution to economic growth and from having opportunities in their lives to build a satisfying and healthy lifestyle. With… Read More »
How goats can create a cycle for Livelihood and Sustainability. Recently Sikandar went to the cattle market and purchased thirty female goats. These were destined to be provided to the landless and poor women of the Mundaragi Taluk for income generation and livelihood. In Kelur Village 19 goats were provided and in Basapur 11 goats. It will become… Read More »
A demonstration of clean water entering the borewell to recharge the underground aquifer
This eco-sustainablity journey was attended by three international guests in September 2018. Susan Sadler – one of our travellers from Perth Western Australia – shares her experience here of the visit we made to see the bore well recharge water harvesting project here in Karnataka. And Rupa Fitzgerald of Melbourne Australia talks about the work of SRDS… Read More »
Last week we visited Anantapur. We had done 75 borewell recharge implementations here just prior to the onset of monsoon. Now we returned to see the results. It was extremely heartening – seeing the flow of water from previously dried up borewells – hearing the reports of farmers who are now able to irrigate their whole acreage –… Read More »
In May, 2017, we were invited to Mundgod the second largest Tibetan Refugee Settlement in India. There we implemented a bore well recharge for two student hostels – girls and boys – using the roof top rain water from the buildings. Here are some photos of the work – done with stone wall pond and the twin ring… Read More »
