Education

As education is the basis of societal change, all the teams of Harvest are partly involved in Environmental Awareness and Education activities. Village meetings, displays at the weekly market in the main villages, dramas and staff trainings of other NGOs take place regularly.

Aruvaadai Thagam is an awareness street theatre program conceived and articulated by the Staffs of Harvest. The program has been staged in around 20 villages, reaching directly about 10,000 spectators.

In the play Aruvadai Thaagam, the salt water and the contaminated water are thanking mankind's indulgence to let them develop, and have decided to kill nature and poison all life.

Its educative but -not the least to say- entertaining message was aired on All India Radio, and telecasted twice on Doordarshan. It told about all aspects of water: where it comes from, the importance to save it, what happens if not, the diseases, and how the self-mobilisation of villagers into a water user association can help them restore the desert into lush greenery.  

Exposure trip of farmers to a sister NGO's works in Madurai district