Sunday, October 03, 2004

What is Growing Together?

We are an NGO. We believe That in unleashing the potential in less priviledged, We will grow with them. We will learn, innovate; finding solutions and answers.
Let us take a village. What does an industrialist say? " This has been a good monsoon, now the villager will come to buy, after the rains!" Well a typical villager gets one crop in a year. The reason is water comes only with rain.
Plan, get water year round. Let the farmer take three crops in a year. Then the farmer will not need you and me. He will take care of himself and the economy as well.
How to do it? let the villagers give entire labour component of the water structure an NGO can help with. Then entire village will take care of the water structure, maitain it, repair it.
What do we do? We help the volunteer to make a plan for where to go? what to do? where to live? the entire logisticks.