Cost free - Constructing

Ten Million Tribal Houses All over India

Cost free - Constructing

Ten Million Tribal Houses All over India

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22 Apr
"Sadhgraha" - Sheltering humanity
One of its prime projects of HRDS INDIA is "Sadhgraha", a Tribal housing project all across India.

The tribal population is interspersed across the country and has placed differently with respect to the political administrative structure existing in India where there are numerical minorities. There are certain constitutional rights conferred to Scheduled Tribes to safeguard their interest, and several privileges and reservations were also accorded to them in educational institutions and government employment. However, there are two major prerogative declarations made for them in the constitution in the form of the Fifth and Sixth Schedules.

The Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution articulates autonomous districts and regions as some of the areas in the states of Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Tripura are excluded under Article 244(2) of Government of India Act, 1935. The Fifth Schedule Provisions to the Administration and Control of Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes under Article 244(1), which aims at providing protections to the tribal population through separate laws for the Scheduled areas and the institution of Tribal Advisory Council, including a special role for the Governor who may make rules and regulation for peace and good government of any area in a State which is for the time being a Scheduled Area.

ABOUT SADHGRAHA
One of its prime projects of HRDS INDIA is “Sadhgraha”, a Tribal housing project all across India, particularly in seven major states, wherein they facilitate free boarding and lodging to tribal children for higher education and ensures the promotion of participatory character of the highly backward and deprived children by organizing them into better social collectives. The ongoing execution of the same exhibits the project’s headway in leading it to wider horizons.

Majority of the Indian Tribes are deluged in poverty; Unemployment, Malnutrition, Infant mortality, Low literacy rate, etc. are some common factors among them. Here HRDS INDIA is introducing a new way of housing technology for the tribes in India. “SADHGRAHA” ,the Tribal Housing Project, which aims to construct Ten Million houses for the homeless tribes across India at a cost of Rs. 500051,70,00,000. Cement Fibre Panels which is a new strategy used for constructing homes to maintain environmental sustainability. Fibre Cement Panels are mainly cement bonded particle boards and cement fibre. It is considered one of the major contributions to the society to reduce global warming, which may take only 12 days to complete a fully furnished house at a cost of 4 lakhs 92 thousand for 370 Sqft with Traditional Indian Architectural design. HRDS INDIA believes that Shelter is the foundation of development, and through “SADHGRAHA” we can bring the Tribal groups into the mainstream of the society, and this project will make a noticeable change in the lives of Tribes in India.

Reformation of Tribal Life
BUILDING HOUSES FOR THE HOMELESS AND SHELTERING NOT ONLY HUMANS BUT NESTING THE DREAMS AND HOPES….OF THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AROUND US.
3 Apr
Donate One Brick, build up the tribal life
A home is a place where one feels to come back. As per the reports, about 28 percentage of Indian population is under the category of below poverty line. Tribes across the nation state are suspended to slums, substandard disaster-prone housing regions or predominantly remain homeless. Indian Tribal population is treated as marginalized and peripheral. Inevitably, many are trapped in an exhausting cycle of poverty, with poor sanitation and no place to call ‘home’. Our vision is a world where everyone has a safe place to dwell in as a fundamental privilege to the person in need. We believe that safe, decent homes help to permanently break the cycle of poverty and allow families to achieve strength, stability, and self-reliance. Since 1995, HRDS INDIA has been expanding operations from remote villages and towns of Kerala to over other states and countries around the world. And, we pledge to continue this promise of building faster and accumulating the happier lot at our end, only with your lending help. HRDS INDIA is taking a prestigious step to construct 10 million houses all over India for the Homeless Tribal People free of cost. Your donation will help us to reach out to them and build a brighter future. You will find here the best ways to donate, whether it is giving online monetary aid or as a gift while you give one brick for a roof over their head. Here is an interesting way to help us with an alternate option i.e. by donating a brick of the size 40x20x20 cm. A cumulative, consistent rise in the brick-give away would amount to a shelter for someone. A total of 286 bricks constitutes one block of house and with an exponential increase in the number to approx. 286000000 bricks would help us build a heavenly abode for the needy. It is certainly a challenging initiation for HRDS INDIA to guard the vulnerable people out of harm's way, and shift them to a secured habitation.

The focus of Sadhgraha Tribal Housing Project is to provide healthy and hygienic living spaces, which are also eco-friendly. The introduction of fiber cement panels, the excellent building material is the distinctive feature of the homes. The panel also maintains environmental sustainability. The homes are constructed on the plots owned by individual tribes. A perfect action plan and methodology are developed, and the project is executed by strictly adhering to the stipulations made by the plan. It is one of the kinds that precisely ensures shelter for tribal communities so that they bid goodbye to the cramped living space they are used to residing albeit in an unhygienic manner. HRDS INDIA proposes to bring light in the life of around 40 Lakh Tribal people residing all over India, to turn their miserable lives elated.

We stay up to date with developments in charity regulation, data protection and the new Fundraising to make sure we are legally compliant and adhering to all guidelines. In addition to this, we make sure all our fundraisers follow and support us on every social, off-social platform for taking this benevolence to the next level. Undeniably, it's very important to understand that it is an equal responsibility for the 135 crores Indian population to come and stand together for the noble cause. Your generous heart and liberal help will light our dream to take it forward. Let's all perk up the impoverished tribal people together by donating a brick to build a safe and sound living place for them. And, HRDS INDIA's only aim is to eradicate the condition of destitute. We, consequently, believe that such an approach would assuredly provide a safe and sound living place and would lead to a relief of indigence.
12 Mar
JWALAMUKHI -- There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women
Empowerment can be defined as a “multi-dimensional social process that helps people gain control over their own lives by unshackling them from all negative aspects which surrounds them. Women empowerment refers to actions and plans to make women more self-assured of their ability to make strategic life choices”. With this theorem, empowerment becomes central to the process of reaping benefits to women at an extensive level. It involves the action of boosting the status and standards of women through literacy, education, by training and raising awareness. Hence, women empowerment is all about allowing and equipping women to make life - determining choices across different issues in the country. It is a step towards incorporating confidence and self-worth within by making them independent and self-reliant. Born in destitute regions, these otherwise talented and workaholic women remain dormant and stagnant under patronage of their male counterparts.

Today women’s lifelong financial wellness is at a tipping point. Thanks to a seismic shift toward women’s growing personal and financial power, they are poised to move into true financial independence, enjoying all the freedom that it brings. Yet there is still a trail left to blaze. Women are living longer than ever before, and funding that longevity has truly become a women’s issue.

Women empowerment is not a new concept and the need for the same was realized much earlier, even before independence. Not only in India but all over the world, women are facing atrocities in almost all the spheres of their life, primarily based on the gender roles devised by the society. Since beginning, they are conditioned and taught to be enslaved under men, yet another life-dictum formulated for them. Women have suffered beyond extremes all through the years at the hands of men. In the ancient times, they were treated as negligent entities or non-existent inanimate objects at large and were coined as a mere second sex. As the community had been driven predominantly by men, even basic rights like Right to Vote were also proscribed. As the times evolved, women realized the effect of barbarity and began to participate in the revolution for women empowerment. As women were not allowed to make decisions for them, the radical conviction of empowering the homemakers came in like a breath of fresh air. It made them aware of their rights and how they must secure their own place in society rather than being dependent and reliant on men. It came to be recognized as a fact that systems cannot simply work in someone’s favor based on their gender, i.e. men are not licensed to enjoy authority on grounds of sexual orientation. However, we still have a long way to go when we talk about the reasons why we need it.

Need for Women Empowerment

“Women are the real architects of society.”

Most of the countries, no matter how progressive they are and how modern their civilization is, women in gross normality have suffered, oppression, abuse, discrimination, hounding and condescending attitude of male representatives in their families. In other words, women from all over the world have borne the brunt of inequality and disproportionate prerogative thus, making them take a rebellious route to reach the status they enjoy today. While the western countries are still progressing, third world countries like India still lack behind in providing enough standards of honor and respect which must be given to women as a differing species of homo sapiens than men. Women Empowerment is, therefore, an instrumental in establishing an ideological hierarchy and a step towards raising awareness of componential factors pertaining to women's subjugation.

Right to education and acquire professional skill set is yet another challenge that a woman incessantly addresses. Higher education for many is still a dream as other marital and familial obligations are posed right in front of her. Many young girls in the remote and rural areas of the country are married off at a very early age. Men even today, are still a dominating and persona who intimidates the opposite gender reflecting their superiority and supremacy. It’sa woman’s duty to work and serve for males in her family and outside at her workplace endlessly, stay subjected physically and mentally all her life. Men do not let them have their fair share of freedom and responsibility of any kind which desiccate them from inside.

In addition to it, domestic violence is a major and the most prevailing issue in India. Men lace into their wives and abuse them showcasing their mastery over them like a ‘vet for a pet’. Men are believed to have a tyrannizingand domineering voice, more so, because women are afraid to speak up. Similarly, women who do the work get paid less than their male counterparts. Ideally, it is downright unfair and considered as a sexist attempt to pay someone lesser for the same amount ofjob due to gender difference. Thus, we see observe, learn and inherit from the day to day societal behavior towards women why empowerment is crucial and a pressing need nowadays. We need to equip these women with courage, confidence, and opportunity to speak up for themselves and never to become victimized or traumatized.
4 Feb
Karshaka Project: Supporting farmers, nurturing communities, and cultivating a sustainable future th
More than half the Tribal population is sorely sustained by ‘Agriculture’, which has been a primary source of income for the population who belong to rural areas of India. And propitiously, agriculture is considered as the heart and soul of Indian economy. An outspread economic sector as 18% of country's GDP is contributed by Agriculture. India positions first and second in the world for highest net cropped areas, and farm output and productivity respectively.

For over 2000 years agriculture has been the spine of our country. But that strength has now grown feeble due to several reasons. It is our reliability to hand down the conventional custom to the next generation and to indoctrinate the auxiliary knowledge across the world. HRDS INDIA is able to illumine it eminently in Indian subcontinent. Herbal yielding is said to be the only countermeasure that has brought about by HRDS INDIA, and this is the reason behind ‘KARSHAKA’, the tribal agricultural development project. This way the Indian soil could beget crude and highly ameliorating Ayurvedic medicines, and augment the forsaken land of tribal communities in order to retrieve the bygone lives of tribal folks in Adivasi areas of Kerala..

Background of the project

HRDS INDIA has pitch upon Attappady region of Palakkad district of Kerala as the location for the implementation of the project ‘KARSHAKA’. They sniff out the reasons like uncontrolled deforestation, over-grazing, inappropriate methods of agricultural practice, etc. for choosing Attappady. All these have contributed to the indiscriminate removal of dense forest cover of this area since the second quarter of this century. However, with the influx of settlers, process of deforestation in Attappady became extensive. The new form of cultivation brought by companies and factories requires forest clearance, with which there is an increase in the procedure of clearance of trees and forest in the rural space of the country. This has led to a large scale erosion and low productivity in the occupied land of this area. Deforestation as a consequence of inappropriate forest management and unhealthy human interactions has slide down to a semi-desert within a few kilometers of the lush evergreen forests of Muthikulam and silent valley ranges. After the plundering of the forest of Attappady, severe practice of different types of cultivation is being practiced due to which there is a destruction of the forest regions. Continuous ploughing and weak terracing resulted in top soil erosion on an extensive scale.

They are least concerned about the ecological nature of the area. In the keen struggle to hold on their land and build up their resource base, tribes of this region have put all their energy into the land indiscriminately and regardless of its environmental consequences. Thus the new cultivation practices, along with deforestation,‘ intensified the process of deterioration of the fertile lands of Attappady. The extensive shift of lrulas and Mudugas towards settler type cultivation, mainly for the need of money, has created an extensive patch of denudation near their settlements, village, and fragile upper reaches. In these areas tribes began practicing cultivation of crops like tapioca and cotton, which is acutely unsuitable to the areas. For many years, the settlers have exploited the ignorance and illiteracy of tribes, and plundered their resource. Instead of leaping from this bitter experience, they are still seeking financial help from the exploiters, thus aiding and abetting the destructive process even further.

Tribal culture is cognate with tribal economy, and their economic system can be understood only within the purview of cultural factors. In the conventional wisdom of economics, economic factors like social and cultural relations are considered non-essential, though they are the tribal reality of the very organization of their economic process. The traditional tribal economy is generally based on forest and characterized by simple technology. Tribal culture and forest have been inseparable entities. Both have been inter-dependent and inter-related. Forest has played a significant role in shaping the social, economic, religious, political and cultural systems of Indian tribal societies. The system by which human resources and natural resources are governed is known as economy. The tribal economy is strictly dependent on the forest because economic institutions like production, consumption, distribution, market, trade, labour etc all is related to forest. Tribals in general and tribals in Attappady are not like general masses. Their main food items are ragi, thina, chama etc. which they cultivate through shifting cultivation. In addition to this, forest has provided them many resources for meeting their life. These items obtained from the forest plays a significant role in controlling and maintaining the health of tribals. But due to the destruction of forest and environmental degradation, they began to face shortage of these items. Lack of rain and droughts caused damage to their traditional agricultural system and as a result of this they lost their traditional food habits, which affected their health and living conditions. Hunting , Food gathering, Collection of Minor Forest Produce, Collection of fuel and fodder, Artisan activities, Shifting cultivation was the traditional economic structure of tribals in Attappady.

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