Launch of Kangra Gardens initiative - Kangra Botanical Garden

Mr Kiran Topiwala aka Lathiwala modern Gandhi (MA Development Practice, Emory University, USA) has worked hard on the Kangra Gardens design.

Kangra Botanical Garden is the central project of Kangra Gardens and aims to embody everything Kangra Gardens stands for. In this way, it help to not only integrate various EduCARE India projects related to biodiversity, nature and environment conservation, environment consciousness, eco-enterprises, botanics, ayurveda and naturopathy for wellness, sustainable eco-tourism, but will also be a home for them.

Kiran, Sudhakar and Om Prakash working on to create a vege patch

Shabnam relaxing after a garden work bout 

The botanical garden has various purposes:

• To regenerate the ecosystem and promote the conservation of biodiversity
• To support community health and build towards food security and nutrition
• To engage people in connecting better with the environment

Mr Ashish, the Pharma in the Farmer mode.  

 

Creating a Task-force of Youth Volunteers for Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Response Preparedness

EduCARE India chose to scale down most of its projects to focus on covid-19 response in early 2020. The NGO continued to invest heavily on mobilising youth volunteers for Creating a Task-force of Youth Volunteers for Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Response Preparedness. 

Through early 2020 to early 2022, a total of about 5000 volunteers were trained in various skill-sets (Basic Fundamentals of Disaster Management, Volunteering, Emergency First Aid, Search and Rescue, Basic Fire Fighting) at our  Centre for Environment, Health and Safety at Kangra in association with Disaster Management Authority and the Red Cross Society. 

Some of these volunteers then went for a 2-week Advanced Search and Rescue course to Regional Mountaineering Centre, while a few select others were then sent for  advanced training to NDRF (National Disaster Response Force for their ToT (Training of Trainers) on CSSR (Collapsed Structure Search and Rescue).