Sujata, wife of the late Nishtha driver, Subhash has been fully employed by Nishtha since the beginning of April this year. She is an experienced local agriculturalist and along with our other members of staff who are devoted to the idea of organic gardening, she is working hard cultivating the land and growing vegetables and herbs. When the Single Women come for their meetings they also help her. Ram, Suresh and Mohinder pass on their knowledge about composting, and creating enzyme rich nutrients for the soil

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Nishtha water filters are regularly maintained by Suresh to provide pure and fresh water for the school children, the village communities and our staff.

Whilst the candles get rinsed every week, Suresh changes the candles in the filters and checks the systems every 3 months. He also cleans the water big tanks every month.

We all very thankful to him for his great job providing so many people with fresh and pure water.

During the months leading up to the school exams in March, the children are occupied with Tuition classes so the lull in library attendance has been used as a good time to refresh our stock of illustrated children’s books. Our aim is to provide new and interesting fiction and non-fiction Hindi, English and dual Language books in the library for the children to keep their interest in reading fresh.

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As the 80 kg of plastic gathered per month through our segregation and collection programme mounts up in our garage, the problem of what to do with it became critical. Last year we were able to deliver the collected plastic to the PWD who were using it in their road making, but since their machine broke down we have had no-where to take it.

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In the evening of November 8^th we invited the local school children and college girls as well as the young people from the nearby Spiti students hostel to see the video we have made of how our team are working with the village community to establish waste segregation and plastic collection house by house. They also watched Satyamev Jayatey, a TV program which discusses and advocates garbage segregation. They all realized the big problem the increasing quantity of packaging and products creates and thought about what we can all do about our own waste.

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You can purchase this bright and beautiful full colour calender for Rs 200 directly from Nishtha, or:

In McLeod Ganj:

• Nawrojees shop
• India House supermarket
• Bedi travels
• Bookworm
• Moon Peak Cafe
• Cafe Iliteratti

In Kotwali Bazzar:

• Sharma photo Studio on the main street

In Sidhpur/Sidhbari:

• Dyaya Ram supermarket by Sacred heart School
• Nam Art gallery
• My Earth Store opp Gyuto Monastery

To order from within India please contact us  – cost Rs. 300 each including postage.

To order from abroad please contact us – cost GBP 5, Euro/US$ 8 per copy.