Saturday, August 8, 2009

wonderful project

This is Priya Nagesh. A wonderful discovery. She studied in PS senior secondary school where I taught in its first 9 years. Priya dropped out of college to work in alternatie education, non formal sector and is inspired by Mahatma Gandhi in his education and development from the grass root ideas. Self taught, she writes great reports and does web design etc. She married Krishnan who also studied in PSSS and was sent out as being too restless. Krishnan is a guy for organic farming and does whole sale marketting of organic produce, is a wizard at computers and has just become my student in spinning.


Priya Nagesh invited me to do a session as part of a two day nayi talim workshop that she organised in Madurai. It turned out to be an hour and half away from Madurai in a place called Sevayur where CCD has created a man made forest and helping villagers around to be gatherers of raw materials for herbal medicinal use. The place is wonderful and took my breath away by its sheer scale and the non formal way it works. Thousnads of women who are the main benificiaries of this programme came for lunch. great experience. was so happy to meet Meenakshi of Puvidham. She is just unbelievable.

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