Nishtha now delivers tofu, vegetables and fruit to 8 primary schools to supplement their midday meal. The program is closely monitored by Dr. Barbara, distributed with the help of our Austrian volunteers and is much enjoyed by the children.

Once again Nishtha sponsored a good lunch of rice and 3 vegetable dishes for over 400 people from a wide range of villages attending patients at Tanda Medical Hospital. Dr. Barbara went to observe but ended up getting involved and enjoyed carefully serving out the curry.

Are you one of those people who loves to party in nature with your friends but leaves the forest littered with bottles, some of them broken? After all, who is responsible for what they do when they are drunk? Have you ever cut yourself on broken glass? If you have then you will know how painful it is. Please think about the harm your rubbish can cause to others.

This week our farm team harvested calendula. We use the extract to make an antiseptic healing cream.

Nishtha staff picking plantain leaves in the fields to make our special cough medicine.

Ravindra and Vijay held three very successful one day trainings for 51 pre-adolescents in three mountainside schools. Their aim was to raise the children’s awareness of issues around personal safety and how to protect themselves from any kind of abuse. The children responded extremely well to all the games and exercises and thoroughly enjoyed the special lunch of puris and were very pleased with their new pencil boxes.

Last week our team joined the waste warriors, to celebrate Warriors Day 2023

More repairs to the village filter system- the tank had to be raised to generate sufficient pressure to provide enough filtered water to serve the village. Job well done team!