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 last week natural  soap making workshop was so exited for me at hunarghar. because i felt  that was a small spark of the local sustainability   . Community  and children were involved with  lot of enthusiasm  .

The soap was made with mostly  local things which include –allowvera, yellow clay (multani mitti), neem, kapoor, musterd oil, soapnut powder , amvala (salty and sour berry powder) cow dung .  Pure natural and eco- friendly.It was small comunity wrokshop to engage people and nature . there so many natural herbs  around the village .Actualy before their health were in their hands. but the bad things is they become more depended on allopathic and the hospital . and they getting forget the  ancient thing . for me is the challang as how much i know the home remedies or herbal medicine . i would like to share with villager and willing to search more ancient things and people.

sunny gandharva

It was my beginning at the Hunarghar after the conference . I was more exited about the preparation of Rakhi festival and the preparation on 15^th august which is call independence. during this week it was so good to talk to children about the real meaning of Rakhi. Not only talking but also making rakhi with waste things and tying each other. I found real creativity with the children . the way they made rakhi,which were so beautiful .but at the same time we were also trying to talk about freedom . What is the freedom ? in our life . children made such beautiful picture of many freedom fighter s . But the most picture I like of Gandhi , in that u can recognize the real art of a child . It was such a good painting of Gandhi , so yes the day was of 15^th august and all the children has smiley faces . They all were excited about the program . The children also did a drama on the one story about the cleverness . And I found people liked that.

sunny gandharva

Hey i went to a conference on global warming at himachal pradesh hosted by deer park institute, kangra(dist.). in that conference there was many people came from part of differnt country and state of india . people who are doing somehting on waste and global warming . we had a lot of discussion on waste issue and  global warming . than we also talked about that what one step we can take in our life to reduce waste and stop global warming. in the city some time  hard to make are life a zero waste life . but in village it can be  very easy . at hunarghar we been finding the way to make this place fully zero Eco friendly palce .

sunnygandharva

Hey I am Sunny. I am from  Udaipur and I am just starting working with Hunar Ghar. So it`s going to be very interesting for me to explore myself and organic and pure deshi lifestyle. I’m already beginning my life here . We did some farming at our home, so we went to get some cowdung from the street and also we got humanure. Now we are waiting for rain; hey guys please pray for rain so we can develop our garden soon!

Sunny

The assembly of Hunar Ghar concept has involved a lot of looking outward for inspiration and in order to learn from the successes and failures of others, but the last few days have offered the opportunity to go back to Bakhel and get back to what it’s really all about- working with the villagers and the children and I’ve got to say it feels great!

On Friday the children of 2nd class went off into the village to collect the leaves of different trees that grow in the area and then told me all about how each tree is used, be it for firewood, building a home, fruit, feeding animals, medicine, flower decoration, shade etc…..I’m not sure who enjoyed themselves more, me or them!

On Saturday we had our first training day regarding the new concept of Hunar Ghar and our learning initiators already seem to have grasped the basics of the concept and the potential benefits it offers. They even came up with a set of projects around health as the first projects to be undertaken by the children- there will be 4 groups who will explore and learn about different aspects of health, undertake practical activities and then have a fair at the end to show the villagers about the things they’ve learnt and done. The 4 group’s projects still need a lot of thinking about but roughly:

Group 1- Clean water for health- this group will go to 2 or 3 homes and wells and work to create a model environment for demonstrating principles and techniques for keeping water clean and drinkable.

Group 2- Local medicine- these children will look into simple home based activities that can be performed when someone is ill before taking them to the doctor. They will also look into and grow a herbal medicine garden based around local knowledge and plants.

Groups 3 and 4 will be around animal and crop health respectively and again may involve practical demonstrations of techniques in model homes, or the creation of a play to express what they’ve learnt etc….

It’s all very exciting and I can’t wait to get going with the projects and see the potential of the community unfold!