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India: To Promote and Preserve Indigenous Culture and Languages

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Categories: India, Arts & Culture, Blogs, Other, Social Networking

We are seeking some resources to establish a community library with a computer lab where the people of the village come together and discuss their problems and solution, children have conversation with elderly about the indigenous/old culture, folk music, arts and local language; the way to pass the cultural values into the new generation, to train the participants in computer and social networking so that they could share it with wider community

Topical focus:

Arts & Culture [1]

Country:

India [2]

What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?

Pithoragarh

Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.

The communities we want to work with include Dalits (most marginalized people in India), Tribes and other backward castes; they are indigenous underprivileged people who live in the remote and secluded villages with much less resources of livelihood, no access to education and other facilities. The reason why, they are an under-represented community because they don't have access to the computer education and internet.

What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?

1. Create a blog and post all the discussions about the problems and solutions by the
participants.
2. Prepare and disseminate a monthly newsletter focusing on the children activities and
conversation about the old culture between elderly people and children/adolescents
3. Publish the inspiring stories online of the these people lives women, men and elderly.
4. To build a social network with other like minded communities and org.

What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?

Blogs [3], Other [4], Social Networking [5]

Other tools

Newsletter comprising all the news about activities which will carry out during the project

Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.

We are already working for promoting indigenous culture and local languages through our program called conversation between elderly and children on the culture. Also we have formed “Bal Panchayat” (Child groups) and they are being educated on the several issues eg environment, culture/arts/local language.

How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?

We have planned tentatively 300-400 participants to train i.e. women, men, elderly, youths and children from marginalized communities.

Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?

We are also engaging to mobilize resources from some local institutions/organizations/social circles/networks and individual Donners. Also we have a group of volunteers who can help us to execute the project particularly in library and computer training and organizing meetings.

Contact name

Bader Jehan

Organization

Gramin Vikas Samiti (GRAVIS)

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