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Empower Indigenous Adivasi Youth Leaders, Femaleand Male

Empower Indigenous Adivasi Youth Leaders, Femaleand Male

Empower indigenous Adivasi Youth Leaders, Female and Male to become powerful national voices for their diverse cultural, spiritual and ecological traditions and their distinct socio-political aspirations. Adivasis comprise 100 million people but remain, despite their millennial culture, marginalized in India. One Earth Family will highlight the valuable contributions Adivasi culture and eco-spirituality can make to India’s socio-political, economic and environmental progress.

Purpose

  • After centuries of deprivation, India’s so called scheduled castes, particularly Dalits, have begun to self-organize and are beginning to benefit from government schemes and initiatives for self empowerment. Adivasi means original inhabitants. They remain marginalized and disempowered. Furthermore their rich eco-spiritual culture remains unknown to the mainstream of population. Consequently, Adivasis are disparaged and exploited. Their timeless ecological cultural and spiritual wisdom is not being harnessed to support and enhance development. It is time for this to happen. For this purpose a special focus of One Earth Family will be to empower Adivasi youth and bring Adivasi culture to the mainstream through these youth.

Objectives

  • Highlight the wealth and wisdom of Adivasi culture.
  • Highlight the specific problems and difficulties of Adivasi communities.
  • Search for authentic, local or endogenous, integrated/holistic and transformative solutions identified by Adivasis themselves.

Scope of Work

  • To identify and shortlist educated Adivasi Youth leaders.
  • Prepare them as Agents of Transformation (As per Activity 3).
  • Document wealth and wisdom of Adivasi Culture.
  • Document the specific problems and difficulties of Adivasi Communities.
  • Develop Project Proposals for Resource Mobilization to promote wealth and wisdom of Adivasi Culture.
  • Develop Project Proposal for Resource Mobilization to address Specific Problems and difficulties of Adivasi Communities.
  • Mobilize Funds to implement different projects for Adivasis.
  • Facilitate Adivasi Youths to mobilize governmental resources for their community welfare.

Expected Impact of the activity

  • Adivasi Youth leaders are acting as Agents of Transformation.
  • Wealth and wisdom of Adivasi Culture is being conserved.
  • Specific Problems and difficulties of Adivasi Communities are being addressed.