Fwd: Project: Reintegration Program in the “Kanjarbhats” community
Henry Schwarz
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--Henry
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*Project: Reintegration Program in the “Kanjarbhats” community
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# *ASSOCIATION FOR ATTITUDINAL HEALING (AAH)*
# *Pune India
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# *Director: Kavita Kowshik*
Since January 1999, AAH has brought healing and understanding into a
community called “Kanjarbhats”, a denotified tribe branded as a criminal
tribe during British rule. For more than a year, AAH has used
Attitudinal Healing in their work to reintegrate this tribe into
mainstream society. AAH is committed to providing these people with
alternative, respectable ways of living, through a rehabilitation
program which also includes education, vocational training, legal and
medical aid. Men from the community who had been involved in crime for
many years have responded positively to the program. In fact, none of
them has been involved in criminal activity since the program began.
Kavita reports that the award money is being used to start the first
phase of a “goat project” for the Kanjarbhat community. Twenty-three
female goats and one male goat have already been distributed to the
women to attract them to an alternative source of income (rather than
the traditional one of illicit liquor brewing). The basic objective of
the project is developing awareness in Kanjarbhat women that economic
and social development is possible, along with learning to live a
peaceful life, with self respect and confidence. Self help groups meet
to encourage productive animal raising programs, and provide education
in health care, children’s health, primary education of children, etc.
The goat raising project will also focus on planting of fodder shrubs,
bushes and tree saplings. In the first year of the program, at least 200
women and girls will be selected for goat raising and other activities.
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Henry Schwarz
Associate Professor
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057-1131
414-795-0017
http://vimukta.org/