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Monthly Report June 2024

By: Boro Baski
12.07.2024 News

June is a summer month in India. Earlier, summer season was a lean period for the farmers as there was no water in the field for cultivation. However, ever since rice cultivation started with extraction of groundwater in Bengal, the farmer has remained busy throughout the year with rice cultivation. But too much extraction of groundwater has also had serious consequences for agriculture. Dozens of deep tube wells, water bodies, and streams in our areas have dried up due to the shortage of groundwater in the last decade. The activities of the organization, however, continued as usual. Here are some major activities for the month.

1) Education: Though the government schools were closed for the summer vocation, educational activities such as the coaching centres in the morning and evening continued regularly. The timing of the RSV classes was brought early because of the heat. The nutrition feeding program was also continued regularly.

2) Meeting: Several meetings were held this month between the teacher and parents, the managing committee, and the youth and their coordinator on vocational trainings.

3) Remembering Hool: Every year on June 30th, the students and teachers of the organization remember the Santal martyrs who laid down their lives fighting the zamindars, landlords, and the police against the exploitation of adivasis. A discussion on Hool followed by a musical program was organized at RSV School.

 

4) Teachers’ training: The training began for the second year this month. The teachers for this year are selected based on their performance of the previous year, and who have agreed to take up the projects on writing and publishing primers and books on any subjects.

5) Kick for Help (KFH): Besides the regular football training, the KFH has played two friendly matches against Illambazar FC and Tribal Academy, Santiniketan. 

6) Vocational training began from this month with three sewing machines at RSV donated by Rotary Club of Bolpur Rangamati. 

7) Santal Cultural Exchange Program to Bangladesh: A five-member team (two female and three male) headed by Boro Baski had gone to Bangladesh for a cultural exchange programme. In the seven-day tour, besides conducting two workshops on the preservation of Santal culture and heritage in Dinajpur and Rajsashi cities, the team also visited the various development projects of the host organisation, Gramme Bikash Kendra (GBK). For information, there is a large number of Santals in Bangladesh, numbering about five lakhs.