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By Shagun Manwal, BSc Life Sciences, 2nd Year, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun My fine-tuned internship experience at Kaaya Learning Centre It’s been almost two weeks away from home since I started my internship at Kaaya, and I never thought I’d learn this much in such a short time. In these two weeks I completed three tasks…

One of the aims of Kaaya’s intern and volunteer programme is to offer a genuine practice ground for sustainability — a space where individuals can move from learning about these ideas to actually living them, even briefly. Interns and volunteers work alongside the Kaaya team and the local community on whatever is live at the…

It was eleven in the morning when we heard someone shout in the distance: “Aag lagi!” A forest fire — the kind we had never seen before, let alone fought. What seemed like a routine incident to those who live here was completely foreign to us. Within minutes, the entire camp mobilised. People united regardless…

A group of 35 students, along with their faculty from Bharti Vidyapeeth College of Architecture, Navi Mumbai, visited Kaaya as part of their summer workshop programme to study sustainable, vernacular construction. Kaaya’s buildings — built without a blueprint, from local soil and local skill — offered the students a working example of architecture that responds…

For young climate enthusiasts It started as a request for a one-day programme — something meaningful for a group of students, at a time when children have begun asking harder questions about the world they’re inheriting. We built a day around climate change specifically: not as a lecture, but as something to encounter directly in…

Plan a field trip for students In classrooms, students engage with pressing global issues — environment, climate change, sustainability — largely through their syllabus. An educational tour at Kaaya is designed to give that learning a place to land. Rather than a generic excursion, the tour is built around the specific concerns a school or…

Participate in a Nature Camp Our semi-structured ‘Journeys’ connect students to ideas ranging from ecology to sustainability — not as abstractions, but through direct, hands-on engagement with the land Kaaya sits on. Each Journey gives a student the opportunity to connect what they’ve learned in the classroom to something they can touch, follow, or take…