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Our story of Change fromSatya Bharti School, Bodhani & Bolyawala, Jaipur, Rajasthan,

Bharti Foundation

Problem being attempted to change:

Bad effects of Chemical Fertilizers like Urea and DAP to the fertility and productivity rate

• Bharti Foundation

– Bharti Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Bharti Group Companies.

– The prime objective is to bridge the existing education divide and make quality education accessible to underprivileged children in rural India.

– The Foundation aims to help underprivileged children and young people of our country realize their potential.

• Satya Bharti School Program

– The Satya Bharti School Program is the flagship program of Bharti Foundation.

– It aims to deliver free quality education to underprivileged children, with special focus on the girl child across rural India.

– Present Operational Status:

• Number of Schools Operational: 236

• States of Operation: Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh & Tamil Nadu

• Number of Students Enrolled: Over 30,000

Introduction

About the Community

• Geographical Location: Bodhani and Bolyawala are neighboring villages hardly 1 kms. from each other. The villages of Achrol Gram Panchayat located 3 kms. interior to the Jaipur – Delhi national highway.

• Cultural Background: Bodhani is a village of Yadav community (OBC) and Bolyawala is a village of Meena community (ST), mainly dependent on Agriculture and Dairy Business. The male and female members equally engaging in the field work and maximum time spending in the work of farming or animal husbandry.

• Role of Satya Bharti School in the Village: Earlier the children used to went in the agricultural field with their parents or taking care of cattle. Only for formality there was very less enrollment in the school but today there was 81 students in Bodhani from the 52 household and 110 students in Bolyawala from the 70 household with 100 percent attendance.

• Participation in ‘Design for Giving’ School Contest: Since the people addict of to use chemical fertilizers it was so difficult to associate them to our campaign and make any impact on them but when our small students made a conversation with them and informed scientifically, some of the people started to listen us start to incorporate the idea of Bio – fertilizers on pilot basis.

• In a village people depends on Agriculture, therefore a farmer have to manage all factors properly to be a accomplished farmer. Being influenced with chemical fertilizers our Indian farmers are using mainly Urea and DAP (Di Ammonium Phosphate) which decreases the fertility rate of the ground and grains, fruits or vegetables are get effected by it. Gradually it increases the production of crops but there is a adverse effect also as the next crop planted in the same field effected by chemical fertilizers get burnt.

We ‘Felt’:

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• To make the people get rid of purchasing chemical fertilizers as they available in the market in the very expensive rate and large part of farmer’s income get spent for procuring chemical fertilizers.

• Our village farmers should be depend on natural fertilizers like Manures, which are natural products made up of animal wastes or produced with the help of NADEP and Vermiculture.

• The Gram Panchayat should take the noble approach of propagating the organic farming scheme in its monthly Gram Sabha or Meetings and helping the people with the required amount of Cement or other resources.

We ‘Imagined’:

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We ‘Did’:

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• The people now start to collect cattle dung to prepare manure and soon will start to use it for the purpose of agriculture.

• Some are started to prepare under ground vermiculture tank to make vermicompost.

• Our campaign’s fusion with the community now provokes the people to prohibit the use chemical fertilizers and enhancing the use of Bio – fertilizers.

Impact on Community:

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• Students are now more motivated now.• Encouraged to take initiatives.• Can plan and implement.• Enhanced leadership and team spirit among the students.• Ignited the feeling of ownership among the students• There is now more association and bonding among students to think

innovatively and creatively.• It is now reflected that our students proved the theory of Bloom

Taxonomy – Recall, Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis and Evaluation through this campaign

• Teachers were feel more empowered in the process of execution and implementation and wined the more faith of the people.

• Teachers got appreciation and positive responses from the community, which added jewel to their rapport and identification as a social activist for a social change.

Impact on Us:

Experience of Community Members & Teachers:

• Kajore Yadav (Bodhani) – Oraganic manure is really very good for the crop production and we will try to avoid the use of chemical ferilizers as much as possible.

• Lal Chand Meena (Bolyawala) – Hum logan ko bohat hi accha laga jankar ki jis gobar ko hum phenk dete thhe wahi ab hum kam may lengey

• Rahul Meena (Class Vth) – I enjoyed so much in the rally and hooting slogans

• Ashish Yadav (Class Vth) – When addressing and facing the people I was confused whether they are understanding or not.

• Chhoturam Gurjar (HT, Bodhani) – This is only the begining • Mukesh Poswal – (HT, Bolyawala) – Lots of things to do

• In the future there will be more construction of NADEP and Vermicompost tank.

• The where will be more and more preservation of cattle wastes and making of organic manure.

• There will be plan to install Bio – gas plants by preserving greater amount of gobar (cattle waste).

The Road Ahead…..(in the next 3 months)

Students Participating in the Contest:

# State District SchoolNo. of

Students Participating

Name of Student Class

 1

Rajasthan

Amer, Jaipur

Bodhani 11 Ashish Yadav Vth 

2 Bodhani 11 Mukesh Yadav Vth

3 Bodhani 11 Puranmal Saini Vth

4  Bodhani 11 Rahul Saini Vth

5 Bodhani 11 Rahul Yadav Vth  

 6 Bodhani 11 Shankar Lal Yadav Vth  

7  Bodhani 11 Kiran Saini Vth  

8  Bodhani 11 Sunita Saini Vth  

9  Bodhani 11 Rekha Yadav Vth  

10 Bodhani 11 Suraj Saini Vth

11 Bodhani 11 Pooran Yadav Vth

#State

District School

No. of Students

Participating

Name of Student

Class

 1

Rajasthan

Amer, Jaipur

Bolyawala 10 Nirmala Meena Vth 

2 Bolyawala 10 Urmila Meena Vth

3 Bolyawala 10 Chandra Prakash Vth

4  Bolyawala 10 Rinkesh Meena Vth

5 Bolyawala 10 Vikash Meena Vth  

 6 Bolyawala 10 Debashis Vth  

7  Bolyawala 10 Swapnil Vth  

8  Bolyawala 10 Krishn Bunkar Vth  

9  Bolyawala 10 Rahul Meena Vth  

10 Bolyawala 10Shanwarmal

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• School Staff– Mentor Teacher(s) Mr. Chhoturam Gurjar, Mukesh Poshwal, Lal

Chand Yadav, Narsi Ram Yadav, Vinay Sharma and Imran Shah

• State Team– Cluster Coordinator – Affaque Haider

– District Coordinator – Mr. Brajesh Bhardwaj

Team Responsible:

Thank you