Educational Tour
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In class rooms, students engage with different aspects of pressing global issues related to environment, climate change or sustainability covered in their syllabus. When they visit Kaaya, they have already studied, debated, presented on, and written research papers about them.
At Kaaya, they get the field context to link them all together. We facilitate a proactive engagement of students with local environment where nature and communities co-exist; and how such interactions are the basis of supporting urban lifestyles. Students also learn how they, as a consumer, can contribute towards building a more eco-friendly, sustainable world
The local team at Kaaya Centre facilitates opportunities for student groups to learn, innovate, create and connect with nature and its re-generative processes through their engagement with “live Projects”
The program offers a customised package (including residency) for students wherein they learn and participate in the various village activities, like:
- Help setting up of a mushroom; poultry and dairy units
- Practising organic farming; composting; land development
- Plantations; nursery and eco-development activities
- Sustainable housing; use of local material like bamboo, lantana, clay
In the process; students also have the opportunity to understand:
- The role of Civil Society (NGOs) in rural development
- Field Methodology; Socio-economic surveys; presentation & report writing
- Social Entrepreneurship; what does it mean?
- Career in the field of rural development/environment etc
A study tour, 2019
Students and teachers from the Sociology Department of Janki Devi Memorial College, Delhi University, on a study tour at Kaaya and in the village of Tilwari.
Support offered
Each visit is planned with the teachers who are bringing the group: what the students are studying, how many days they have, and what they hope to see. Groups stay on the campus in mud-built cottages and a dormitory, eat together from Kaaya's kitchen, and use the hall and the open-air amphitheatre for sessions and presentations.
In the field, the people who teach are those who live the work: farmers, cattle keepers, women's groups and the Kaaya team. They are paid for their time and knowledge. To plan a visit, write to connect@kaaya.org.