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The task is to motivate youth to think“each for all and all for each”.Rejuvenate traditional systems ofKulapanchayath / Gramasabha’s andconsensus decision making of everyevent of the village, getting the rightsover native resources by using relatedActs. Make the youth to holdresponsibility of managing the villageresources sustainable for the benefit ofthe whole village. In this direction weare happy to mention this year we haveattempted to empower communities toclaim customary rights over their nativeresources besides organizing forharmonious living with nature.

SubhaniSecretary

I enjoyed the honor of associating with Asha

(Association for Social and Humanize Action) since its

inception. Particularly I took active interest in following

all the activities for the past 4 years. I am also happy

that I have guided formulating this years target. I hope

the readers will enjoy going through this report getting

clear idea of the activities focusing on rejuvenating

systems of tribal community.Prof; V.V.N.Rao,

Honorary President

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Awareness to 892 families of 10 villages on the following issues: Forest Rights Act. Panchayath Extension to

Scheduled areasSC ST SUB PLAN ACT.BIO DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE.GRAMA SABHA

Sustainable utilization and Conservation of Natural Resources1. Sirisanapalli VSS got Bamboo felling permission from

APFD and Motivated 15 villages to claim their VSSareas under CFRA.

2. Promotion and conservation of Traditional SeedBiodiversity.

3. Value addition to Mohva-NTFP making Eatables.4. Youth Mobilization.-Identified youth to carry out

further future program me-Organized orientationprogrammes to youth in 12 villages.

5. Conservation of Bamboo Clumps in natural forests-trainings to the fellers of Bamboo on SustainableHarvesting and clump management

6. National Environmental Awareness Campaign 2012-13

Now we are happy that after six years gap , we came together whole villagers and celebrated festival.

K. Mallesh, Sirasanapalli…….

Sirisanapalli village has 36 families and formed into Vana

Samrakshana Samiti in 1997 protecting 500 hectares of forest

land. In 2004 villagers harvested 42000 Bamboo and got their

share of Rs.2.50 Lakhs. This year again they got fellingpermission from the Department after 10 years gap this means3 crop seasons lost because of dispute in the villagers. TheVillage divided into groups and has no collective efforts madeto obtain permission. Asha along with sister organizations andconcern people organized a number of meetings with wholevillage and GroupWise. 8 months of our efforts made wholevillagers come to common platform as result and celebratedfirst time festival that is after 6 years. The planning forBamboo harvesting, transportation, sale and sharing isdiscussed in the Grama sabha and resolved consensusdecision making.

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Sirasanapalli VSS/CFRA

Meeting at workplace

Gramasabha at Burkanakota

Bamboo Handicrafts

Asha in collaboration with the National Bureau of PlantGenetic Resources (NBPGR), Hyderabad hasembarked on a campaign to spread awarenessamong the local tribal people on plant geneticresources and other allied issues. The Multi-focalcampaign envisages preparation of bio-diversityregisters for select villages, establishment of a GrainBank, conduct of awareness programmes on plantgenetic diversity, organizing farming methodsincluding pest control and protection of soil fertility

in Chinturu Mandal of Bhadrachalam division.

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Promotion and conservation of Traditional Seed Biodiversity

452 farmers from 16 villages got awareness on Promotion and conservation traditional SEED Biodiversity in 2013. 89 farmers from 21 villages participated in OLD SEED FESTIVAL and demonstrated 42 varieties of Old Traditional Seeds

“I remembered my childhood days, we almost forgot our traditional seeds which are suitable for every condition andprovide food security, it is good opportunity to have back our traditional seeds and chance to propagate andpromote in our villages” Maadi. Soma of Terapadu village.

Local indigenous verities of food crops almostdisappearing in tribal areas the origin of food securityfor not only mankind and also all livings on earth. Socalled Hybrid seed introduced to feed Indian communityduring drought years took major part in the agriculture.Agency areas are not different from this. Asha aimed atconserving and promoting the local varieties of foodcrops, particularly paddy and millets, most of which areon the brink of disappearance, association has drawn upan action plan to organize a series of awarenessprogrammes for all the stakeholders with a thrust onfarmers in the remote tribal pockets. A Genetic ResourceAwareness and Biodiversity Fair organized inBoddugudem for PTG (Konda Reddy) and in Alligudemfor Koya Tribal community on 10th to 12th December,2013.https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=740693468818

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Principal Scientist, NBPGR, Regional Station, Hyderabad addressing farmers awareness meeting at Alligudem village.

Demonstration of Traditional/Old Seeds Maadi Soma, Terapaduwith Finger millt

M. Subbayya, Sirasanapalli with Jowar

We are gradually losing our inherent capacities of investigation,discovering and experimenting with the traditional, timetested, general day to day practices that kept the tribal andrural masses healthy for the last many, many centuries. Ourminds are so manipulated to believe what media reports orwhat corporate business labels indicate and accept theirefficacy of the products. Tribal's have traditionally beenusing Mahva as a major food item. It is eaten either raw orcooked (boiled, fried or cooked with other ingredients).Sometimes laddus are also made from it. Flowers are usefulfor general weakness. Good for lactating mothers, andchildren suffering from malnutrition. These flowers improvepotentiality and improve metabolism in human body. Thisproject rejuvenates tribal traditional food habits whichreduces malnutrition among children and women.Collection of Flower and Seed is done by only women andchildren. Men help them only in carrying flowers to theirhome. Community will be trained and equipped with Netsand tarpaulin sheets to get clean Mohva flower. IMPACT OFBETTER COLLECTION PRACTICE:• Use of nets to collectfalling followers.• No forest fire, soil moisture is retained,no loss of soil bearing microorganisms. Reduction incollection time. More time for the collectors for the otherproductive work.• Good quality Mahva collected. It fetchesa high price.• as the entire tree does not get covered bythe net, the left over flowers can be used for otherpurposes and by wild animals. Youth (Girls) formed into agroup and will be trained to take up production activity. Afew selected Girls will be involved in marketing anddistribution of products local and outside market.

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Value addition to Mohva (NTFP)

252 women and Adolescent girls of 5villages are trained in Hygieniccollection of Mohva Flower and makingeatables like Jam, Halwa, Laddu and

Cake with Mohva flower pulp.

“Now we are getting all mohva flowers easilywithin a limited time by using Nets andTarpaulin sheets, our work made easy”

Maadi Somamma of Alligudem village: Previously our whole family hasto go for collection of Mohva flower of our trees. We have 32 Mohvatrees in our own forest lands. My children (2 boys, 2girls) and myselfwill go early in the morning by 4.30 am and return by 11.00am withflowers. My husband comes to the spot at 11.00 to carry the flowersto our drying place in the village. Thus our family has to work 6.30hours every day for this purpose. We tied nets to the trees, now weare collecting flowers once at 10.45 am which are pooled at centreplace of net. We arranged tarpaulin sheets under the tree, at the endof flower fall we collect them on Tarpaulin. Besides time saving, weare getting fresh mohva flower which has market value. We arekeeping the flowers fallen outside net and tarpaulin for arrackbrewing. We have a little problem with our cattle which disturbs thenets in the lower branches of the tree. Hygienically collected flowershas demand in the market through the association and we are tryingto make eatables with pulp. Our ancestors are used make Laddu andin drought our people fed themselves with dried and fried Mohvaflowers with other naturally available grains.

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Mohva Flower

128 youth in 9 villages organized into village level groups. A 3 fold 3000 pamphlets published in telugu on FRA,PESA, SC-ST Sub-Plan, BDC and distributed in the sandy's. 15 members batch trained in Bamboo Handicrafts Helped to organize culture activities through youth. Awareness and guidance on Right to Information Act to youth.

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Youth Mobilization

Organized youth in to groups to understand various Acts,constitutional provisions earmarked for Scheduled Tribecommunity. Making them to take common issues as wellindividual issues for solution through proper mechanisms.Asha got the information downloaded about SocialSecurity Pensions, Indiramma Houses and MGNREGAdetails and circulated to the youth groups. They checkedthe implementation/distribution in the villages and gotthe corrections and payments where misused. Informationabout wages and Forest Scheduled Rates also circulatedto youth. Encouraged youth by sponsoring gifts to theirevents sports. Mobilized to workout the small issues at

their own in the village.

“We are able to ask our

share in theGovernment schemesand Panchayath fundsfor our villagecommunitydevelopment andwelfare”

Arela. Bojji, Volunteer, Thulugonda

Mr. Arela . Bojji Youth volunteer of Thulugonda. Vana Samrakshna Samiti (VSS) initiated in our village in1997. From the inception of the VSS we have been protecting 650 Hactres of Forest Land. We have maturedBamboo in the VSS area and our estimate 1.00 lakh good quality of long bamboo. We have been resolvingfrom last year to obtain felling permission. But we are not got any permission so far. This year we made theForest Department to survey and mapping the total area. Now we applied RTI asking reasons why they arenot giving the permission. Regarding Social security pensions we approached the concerned Secretary withfacts found in our survey and made corrections, now all the eligible persons are getting pensions. We haveorganized youth mobilization camps in neighboring villages and conducted cultural programmes and sports.Our members have been working actively by helping each other as “Each for all and All for Each”

A Mandal level meeting with line department officers to

take up issues to resolve on a common platform.

Bamboo Handicrafts trainees team

Youth meeting at Gondigudem Bamboo handicrafts training

21%

conservation of Bamboo clumps

5 training programmes on

“sustainable harvesting and Clump Management of Bamboo” organized in 5 villages. 232 Bamboo fellers were educated about harvesting practices and silviculturaloperations in Bamboo coupes. An appeal made to concerned Forest Officers to follow the silviculturaloperations and protect Bamboo.

Awareness training programme on “sustainableharvesting and Clump management of Bamboo”organized in Thulugonda, Sukumamidi, SirasanapalliDabbagudem and Gopanapalli villages.

National Environment Awareness Campaign (NEAC) 2013-14

NEAC2013-14: This year Asha got Excellent grade onperformance of awareness programme by DeccanDevelopment Society and Ministry of Environment andForests.

232 farmers, 103 women and 148 youth joined in the campaign.

Awareness programme on Conservation of Traditional (OLD) SEED BIODIVERSITY IN Alligudemvillage.

Wall writings on Environment conservation, Seed biodiversity.

Millet Seed distribution in 6 villages and initiation of Seed Bank.

Essay writing and Elocution in A.P.R.J.Residential College ,

Chinturu.Demonstration of Traditional seeds in

Junior College.A 3 fold pamphlet (1000 copies)on

nutrient values of Millets published and distributed during the

campaign.

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Training on Sustainable Harvesting practices and Clump management of

Bamboo in Natural Forests.

NEAC 2012-13 at Jr. College

Receiving best NGO award in Khammam district 2013 on 15.8.2013

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1.38

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2.34 A.P.State SocialWelfare Board

Ministry Environmentand Forest

Keystone foundation

Yugantar

Contribution

Receipts 2013-14

Association for Social and Humanize ActionCHINTURU-507 126

Khammam district Andhra Pradesh (India)

Phone: 09492381609, 08179339047

Email: ashachintur@gmail.com ashachinturu@yahoo.co.in

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Training to tribalyouth in Valueaddition ofMohva flower:making MohvaJaam, Cake andLaddu.

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