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Foundation of SBMA

Shri Bhuvneshwari Mahila Ashram has officially existed for the last 36 years, and the social mission of Swami ji and his followers has been in motion for over 50 years.Many challenges and milestones have marked the path to today. Obviously, it is impossible to show you everything, but we hope…

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"BANTHA" Water Movement

It is a strange and sad irony that while Uttarakhand supplies most of North India's water, many of its villages remain dry and lacking in even basic water facilities. The Ganga and the Yamuna and all their tributaries, huge snow fed rivers, leave these Himalayan slopes and irrigate the North…

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Major Growth Points

The growth of SBMA is a continual and on-going process, but there are a few precise moments that stick out and represent the larger changes. First of all, the women and children who had the courage to take up residence in the ashram at the very beginning deserve commendation. Breaking…

R T I and Dissemination

Result of Right information and Dissemination Rashi denizen of district Uttarkashi, Uttranchal, is a young girl of 16 years, belongs to an agricultural family. She couldn't pass the 10th grade exam. A common reason for dropping out from school was that the education of girl child is not in…

ICMC- 2002

The International Conference of Mountain ChildrenMay 18 - May 23 2002; Dehradun, Uttaranchal, India The International Conference of Mountain Children (ICMC) was much more than simply a meeting of children from mountainous regions: It was the first step in a revolution that means to change how the world works…

Kunti

Kunti (This is a presentation made by Kunti Rawat, the President of the Furkenday village Bal-Panchayat. Furkenday is in the SBMA/Plan Gairsain PU. Kunti came to the ashram for a Rights of Children Workshop in which 151 children from 77 villages participated.) On the 6th of June 2001 I went…

Hema

Hema Hema is 15 years old comes from Sera village, Gairsain, in the Uttranchal Mountains of India. The village is nine kilometers from the road to the upper valley. People there still wear traditional woolen clothes and their houses are made of mud and wood with a slate roof.…

Harish

Harish In village Jakhni, Smt. Sangita Devi, 22 years, w/o Sri. Pradeep Kumar, started getting labor pains on 9.10.04. It was her first delivery, labor pains remained for more than 24 hours regularly. But, family members and village people were not ready to send her to the hospital anywhere.…