Livelihood- Where Hands Create, but Markets Feel Far Away: A Livelihood Story from Meghalaya
In the quiet villages tucked between the hills of Meghalaya, mornings begin with familiar rhythms. Bamboo is cut carefully, split by hand, shaped into baskets, mats, and fishing traps. Inside wooden homes, looms sing softly as women weave patterns passed down from their mothers and grandmothers. Every thread carries a memory. Every craft holds a […]
Climate Action- When the Seasons Forgot Their Way
In the hills of Meghalaya, people once measured time by the taste of fruit. Spring meant pineapples golden, sweet, heavy in the hand.Summer carried the smell of oranges ripening in quiet orchards. Autumn arrived with plums, bananas, and baskets filled with colour. For generations, farmers did not need calendars. The land itself spoke. But in […]
Education Across the Hills: Ground Realities in Meghalaya
In the remote hills and scattered valleys of Meghalaya, education begins long before a child enters a classroom. It begins on narrow footpaths carved into mountainsides, across streams without bridges, and through forests wrapped in mist. For thousands of children, going to school means walking 7 to 8 kilometers every day. Many villages do not […]
Training & Skilling Development- From Not Knowing to Knowing How: A Story of Training and Skill Development in Meghalaya
In the hills of Meghalaya, mornings begin early. Mist hangs low over the slopes, and the smell of wet soil fills the air. Like many young people here, 22-year-old Banshai helps his family in the fields. He works hard, but for years his work led only to the same result: just enough to survive, never […]
Agrecology & Plantation – Where the Road Ends, the Learning Begins
In the small village of Mawthadraishan, Meghalaya, the road arrived before opportunity did. Bulldozers came first. Then dust. Then silence. Where rows of wild banana trees once bent in the rain, there were now stones. Where orange orchards shaded children walking to school, there were tyre marks and broken roots. Development had a sound loud, […]