Strategy

Our strategy is as follows:

Community mobilization, sensitization and motivation: Through community-building and sensitization workshops, we bring the community together. The workshops play a crucial role in breaking barriers between people, promoting human values, and establishing harmony in diversity. The workshops also increase self-awareness, mindfulness, a sense of belongingness and energy levels of community members, which further gears them for participating in the project.

Creation of local community leaders: Selected youth from the village are trained in Karma Yog program (formery YLTP), which inculcates confidence, a sense of responsibility and ownership in them. These empowered youngsters then lead various initiatives to develop their village.

Discuss what it will take to turn the village into a model village: A group of important stakeholders is taken to model villages to exhibit how small changes can drive huge impact. Regular community meetings are organized to discuss success stories of other model villages and plan activities and projects which can turn their village into a model village.

Ensure community involvement and ownership: The above interventions motivate the community to take ownership and resolve their problems. The community involves itself through shramdaan (volunteering). The entire village voluntarily puts in the efforts to construct water conservation structures, toilets, etc.