Rang Radio - CDR, Uttarakhand

06/01/2022

On January 2nd, we had our first meeting with Pradan Sunita Marchal to start winter school for boys of Marcha village.
The team of 5 boys was selected and the team was named as 'Pahadi Tech Boys 85' .

In the presence of Pradan Sunita Marchal, the team committed to attend winter school continuously without fail for 12 days to learn assembling pi for moving radio held at CDR camp site. The team will learn to assemble pi radios with master trainer Mr. Yashas.

From Pragathi foundation bicycles were donated for the boys to attend the winter school at Nayabasti. And in future they should modify the bicycles to moving CDR stations.

14/11/2021

14/11/2021

Rang Radio

07/11/2021

We are all on task now...Walking is the only way to reach the essentials we need and that which is on the other part of the world from our CDR camp😀

07/11/2021

This is how the temporary solutions are....

07/11/2021

I had shared in my earlier post on how CDR can contribute in mitigating this disaster, I am trying to articulate what and how can it be done. And that's how we went about doing this...

07/11/2021

Sorry for the delayed post....
Land slide very close to our CDR camp...In the next posts I will be share how CDR intervention helped the community to combat the situation in a small way.

17/10/2021

A week full of cultural exchange program between members of Pragathi foundation from Bengaluru who are here to visit us during the project and community of Nayabasti. Includes sessions on exchange of traditional food recipes, classical Bharathanatyam dance form, yoga for healthy life, parenting tips for the adults and also includes educational activities for children.

03/10/2021

My visit to Darma was a real challenge. I had heard the trek to Darma was not an easy job. Wanted to experience the trek, but my team members were completely against it. With the support of local partners two of us got a chance to use the heli service to reach Darma. And through flying it was hardly a 10 minutes of journey, We trekked back to Nayabasti, it took us 2 days of journey.

I was very excited on the day of my travel to Darma. reached Darchula for the heli service at the time I was told, but it was just a long wait, at the end of the day we were told we could not fly because of the weather conditions and we would get our chance the next day. Next day, again with the same excitement we were at the heli service at the same time, again continued to wait...the result was same as the previous day. The third day again, it was the same and the fourth day we got a chance to fly to Darma.

With the biting cold weather in the mornings and in the evenings and high altitude I developed high altitude sickness like severe headache, and shortness of breath. But was able to manage after a day of stay there.

I should say the people of Darma are very warm hearted and their simple life style made them the most happiest people, I had read somewhere Bhutan is the most happiest country in the world. And I would say people of Darma were the most happiest people at least in India. They are far away from the busy life of other parts of the world.

I had some recordings from Nayabasti community, it was their audio recording which made Darma people to receive us warm heartedly. And that also made our work simpler.

When I visited Darma, the first thing I noticed was they had some minimum service of internet, where they were given access to net without educating them to how to use. All were aware of tiktok, whatsapp ....but what was missing was the awareness of how to use the facility available for the benefit of the community.

I had several meetings with the Darma community. They were eager to embrace the idea of CDR. They recorded their voice messages for their dearest ones at Nayabasti. They understood the need of CDR.

03/10/2021

On location voice messages recording for Darma Visit. Community's audio messages were delivered to their dearest ones during my visit to Darma

03/10/2021

Community volunteers working on resource map - final touch up.

15/09/2021

Fortnight review meeting with local partner Renu Thakurji from ARPAN and ASHA workers.

15/09/2021

Official inauguration of "Rang Radio" by our local partner Renu Thakurji, ARPAN by issuing identity cards for Rang Radio volunteers from Nayabasti.

14/09/2021

I am happy to share with you all, this is our first initiation, where our effort of bringing the community together has become successful. The women in the community have come together to set up a canteen and make a start to become economically independent as a group.

14/09/2021

Next level of community mapping....earlier a picture of their house and their surroundings were drawn, now it is taken to the next level of mapping, where we are trying to get the complete picture of the resources in the community.

14/09/2021

Community volunteers busy in 'Radio Play' - recording their audios for the play...shortly will be released on 'Rang Radio' and also on 'namdu1radio'.

14/09/2021

Our constant endeavor...check for network, everyday until we establish the connectivity, this will be our regular activity. We check for network at different points and also check for the efficiency of networking equipment.