Planting sacred trees donated by Kangra Rotary Club on Rakkar Playground.

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Yesterday in the delightful spring weather, the single women held a combined block meeting in Nishtha Community center. It was attended by 84 women who were delighted to get together again. The Government Welfare officer, the Principal of the Industrial Training Institute and the police officers all attended and explained how they could help the women when they need. Nishtha project officer Mohinder and Dr. Kusum also talked to the group making it a very interesting and informative program. In celebration of this being our first large gathering since the beginning of the pandemic. Nishtha provided a sumptuous lunch and our students led the dancing afterwards.

Hurrah! Shop.nayi-asha.com is now working and we have now introduced our popular range of rambling backpacks! We are looking forward to your orders!

Sadly our on-line sale site is not accepting foreign payments yet. But if you would like to select the bags you would like on the site and contact us directly on nayiasha@nishtha.ngo we will fulfill your order and send you the direct payment details.

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Renewed efforts to encourage people not to throw their plastic waste around the village!

Our Single Women activists have been working hard to contact women who have been severely isolated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Follow this link to see more of our reach into the villages.

Reviving our group action to improve the garbage situation in the Dharamsala area, Nishtha invited the local groups to share what they have been doing during the lockdown and what their plans are for the future. We can all benefit from hearing from each other and directing our efforts towards segregation and educating youngsters through WhatsApp groups.

Nikita and Soujanyaa, two highly enterprising and experienced young people held a vibrant 2 day workshop for 20 adolescent girls from the villages of Rakkar, Khaniyara and Tillu. Supported by our Community Centre staff, the girls danced, dreamed and explored the themes: Self, Others, community and Habitat. The team hope to follow up the workshop with a number of support sessions for the girls, and an adapted version for adolescent boys.

Thank you kind donor for restocking our library with over 100 new picture story books so we can really enjoy reading in Hindi