Special Edition, March 2021 India Tribal Care Trust Official Newsletter ITCT Newsletter C* Inside: A Temple a Community Hall Bhakta Niwas Prasadam Hall Choto Jamera School The temple in Choto Jamera is a place of gathering and Gurukul Construction worship for the local tribal communities living in Choto Jamera Farming in Choto Jamera village. Here the deities are Jagannath, Baladev & Subhadra Brickfield Rani. Since the time the temple was built by ITCT in this remote Building home village, during the time of arati the local tribal villagers gather Adopting a tribal family in the temple and worships the Lordships. During the Mangal Medical aid arati when the beautiful kirtan and hari naam spreads across Pathshala the air of the village through the amplifier it creates a beautiful Mid Day Meal hallowed environment. (continued to..2) Our Hero Donors and Supporters .....continued from Page 1) Know The Bhils – The The villagers are now attending the classes and sat sang and this Largest Tribe In India has brought lots of changes in the behavior and habits of the tribal. Most of them have now stopped eating nonveg and intoxications. Now the temple premises has created an opportunity for the community head to be used as a hall for community gathering and discussion on social and spiritual developments. Bhakta Niwas Because of the distance and remoteness of the Choto Jamera village, ITCT has built a bhakta niwas for the accommodation of the devotees who are travelling to the village for community development. The bhakta biwas have all modern facilities for comfortable stay of 6-7 devotees and travelling guests at any time. Next time you plan to visit the Choto Jamera village you need not worry about your accommodation. page 2 copyright itct 2021 Prasadam Hall Though we build a community hall but there was no prasadam hall and during any festivals and events, we had to make a temporary makeshift arrangement for cooking and serving devotees and villagers. Now we have build a proper prasadam hall and kitchen where devotees can cook feast and serve mahaprasadam to the visitors and villagers. Now we can have grand feast during festivals and also Tithi Bhoj and tribal villagers from Choto Jamera village and nearby villages can come and attend. In the new hall 200 devotees can sit and take prasadam at a time. page 3 copyright itct 2021 Choto Jamera School One of the main focus area of ITCT is the education of tribal children and keeping that in mind ITCT opened pathshalas in villages and has also built a school in Choto Jamera. At present, across the eastern states and north eastern states ITCT is running more than 100 pathshalas. ITCT has future plans to open the school and run it under the local state board and provide quality education to the tribal children. Construction of new Gurukul India Tribal Care Trust is building a gurukul in Choto Jamera village. This gurukul will initially accommodate 20 tribal children and they would be provided by the Gurukul shiksha of ISKCON Mayapur. Experienced teachers will train the tribal students who will be studying vedas and scriptures and grow up a scholar in our sastras. The gurukul shiksha is the ancient form of education, where the students used to stay near the guru and learn the scriptures, vedas, maths and learn discipline and value of life. The gurukul building construction is going on with funds and support from Singapore devotees and we are expecting to complete it by the middle of this year. page 4 copyright itct 2021 Cabbage garden Potato plants Betelnut palm tree plants Farming in Tribal Area ITCT is also helping the tribal farmers with their farming by introducing modern farming techniques which will help them to harvest more vegetables and crops. This will help the farmers generate more income. Also, some vegetables will be used to cook mid-day meals in our pathshalas. ITCT is also planning to set up a food processing unit so that more items like tomato sauce, jam and packed food items can be produced and marketed. This will help in creating employment and generate livelihood among the tribal. page 5 copyright itct 2021 Brickfield in Choto Jamera The villages in Choto Jamera are far interior from the city and the main mode of communication is by boat or walking. The construction materials that we get to the village are carried in boats which increases the costs of construction. Amal Gour Das the ITCT coordinator for Hailakandi district with his expertise has set up a brickfield in the village. Now all bricks that are used in our constructions are made in the bricks field, which has reduced the additional cost of transportation and thus the construction cost. Helping tribal family to build a new home In Choto Jamera village we have a nice sincere devotee named Bishakha Mataji Existing home of Bishakhi Mataji who is an aasha worker and came in touch with ISKCON and also following 4 regulative principles. She lives in a cottage that is in very poor condition and due to her poor financial condition she was unable to construct a new house for her family. When she approached us with her problem, we decided to help her build a new home and ITCT provided some construction materials and bricks which will help her build a new home soon. Construction of new home page 6 copyright itct 2021 Adopting a tribal family The poor tribal family whose report we covered in our May 2020 newsletter created a lot of curiosity among many donors and supporters. We would like to tell you that we are continuing to support that poor tribal family in Choto Jamera with a monthly supply of dry rations. Since the article was published in our newsletter, we received inquiries and funds from donors who are interested to adopt a very poor family similarly and support them with monthly rations throughout the year. Existing home of Bishakhi Mataji Medical aid Last year we lost one sincere devotee girl Sombi Reang who lived with her family next to our Choto Jamera center. She was suffering from some diseases which the village doctors couldn’t detect and when her condition deteriorated our ITCT volunteers stepped in and we took her to town for better treatment and got her admitted to a very good medical college hospital so that she gets the best treatment. Many devotees came forward to support her medical expenses. We tried our best but we couldn’t save her and doctors said she was suffering from malaria which Construction of new home also affected her brain and nervous system but the failure of the village doctor in detecting the disease and delay in receiving proper medication took her to the point of no return. page 7 copyright itct 2021 Pathshalas - Education for all ITCT is running 5 pathshalas in 5 villages under Nilachal project in Choto Jamera, Hatimukh, Bangla Bhasa, Hatichera and Harinchera village. Out of these, the Harinchere is the new one. Around 230 students study in these pathshalas. In these pathshalas, we are providing the tribal children with primary school education as well as value education. At ITCT we believe every child has the right to quality education and a value education can help them to grow up as a good human being. Educated village youths are appointed as teacher in these pathshalas, this also creates employment among the local youths. page 8 copyright itct 2021 Mid Day Meals in pathshalas ITCT has introduced mid-day meals for the children coming to our pathshalas in Nilachal project. In mid-day meals we generally serve khichudi, this dish which is cooked using local vegetables, rice and lentils not only fill their stomach but it also helps them get proper nutrition. Many children love this and this tasty and delicious meal also attracts them to regularly come to our pathshalas. Daily more than 200 children from 5 villages are benefitted from this mid day meals. The Heroes Amal Gour Das (left) the project manager for Nilachal project and Subal Nath (right) his assistant are the two heroes behind implementing all these at ground level. Since day one Amal Gour Das has been taking care of these projects and implementing different development works for the tribal communities of the area. Subal Das joined this project as a pathshala teacher and later on was promoted to project assistant supervisor and started assisting him in this project. page 9 copyright itct 2021 Our project at Choto jamera in the state of Assam is one of the most vibrant project. This project is named as Nilachala Community project. Choto Jamera is located in deep forest, one has to walk 15 kms to reach there or can take 2 hours county boat ride whenever there is water in river. ITCT started its activities about 4 to 5 years back. During these years a lot has been achieved there for the well-being of tribal people. All these are possible because of the kind help of tribal care supporters of Singapore. ITCT takes pleasure in thanking our tribal care supporters in Singapore. Without their support, it would not be possible for this project to reach this stage. We are very very grateful to our tribal care supporters of Singapore. Yours in the service of Lord Sri Krishna, Bhakti Purusottama Swami Our Sincere Thanks to A. CHAITANYA NEELKAMAL ADHARAPURAPU CHAITANYA NITAI PREM AMIT GUPTA NITIN ANUPAM NITHIN KUMAR BOMIRASIPETA ARAVINDH SWAMINATHAN PROF I SRIDHAR ASHISH PROF SANJIB PANDA BALAKRISHNAN SARAVANAN PROF SANJIB SAHOO CHAITANYA BYRI RAJA SATYANDRA DILIP GURU ROHIT GUPTA GATTE MAHESH S. HARISH GAURAV MANI S. N. ABHYANKAR GEETA GUPTA SACHIN OMPRAKASH AGARWAL GOUR CHANDRA KRIPAMOY SANBAKATHAMAN RAGHU HARIKRISHNAN SHIRISHA RAO JAIBIR SHARMA SHWETA KAPUR KILLI KARUNASRI SHYAM SUNDER GUPTA KIM SHARMA SOORIYA SITHAN KOYA SOMA SEKHAR TSAVATAPALLI GANESH KRISHNA SUMANTH USHA BALA SELAM KRSNA DAYA VENKATA SREERAM MADUKURI LAKSHMI RAJU VIVEK KUMAR page 10 https://indiatribalcare.org copyright itct 2021
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