Health and Hygiene
Healthcare for all, focusing on preventive, diverse systems of health and medicine
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Healthcare for all, focusing on preventive, diverse systems of health and medicine
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This section features stories of initiatives ensuring healthcare for all. These are based on approaches that help prevent ill-health in the first place, including the provision of nutritional food, enabling an environment that is healthy, and so on. They include ensuring access to curative facilities to those who have conventionally not had such access. And they have stories of synergizing various health systems, traditional and modern, bringing back into popular use the diverse systems from India and outside including indigenous/folk medicine, nature cure, Ayurvedic, Unani and other such systems, and other holistic or integrative approaches. Community-based management and control of healthcare and hygiene, and ensuring accountability of the state’s responsibility towards citizens in health, would be part of the stories featured here.
Walking along the Indus
Our existential challenge is how we can nurture ethics of care and bring discourse that can alter the way we see the rest of nature.
Churning The Earth
Ordinary people constructing alternatives like sustainable farming, community-led ecotourism and conservation, revival of crafts, activity-based learning, decentralised water harvesting, local governance and direct democracy.
TOWARDS SECURING HIMALAYA FROM DISASTERS: A DEMAND CHARTER PEOPLE FOR HIMALAYA CAMPAIGN, 2024
In solidarity for the wellbeing and sustenance of our Himalayan natural heritage - glaciers, rivers, alpine pastures, forests and lands and diverse inhabitants whose identity and survival depend on the Himalaya.
WASTE THAT IS NOT WASTE : The management of solid waste generated by the Ganesh Chaturthi festival
Municipal corporations of each city can integrate this cyclic supply chain into their solid waste management plans ensuring that the true value of the material is recognised.
Alternative Developmental Paths in the Western Himalayas
At the core of all these is the motivation to ensure overall happiness of communities, which cannot be ensured solely through economic well-being.
Statement and Appeal on Ladakh’s Demands for Constitutional Safeguards
People of Ladakh demand Constitutional measures enabling them to protect their land, culture, environment and the economic interests.
Gardens of Resilience: How Gond Adivasi Women Are Cultivating Change Amid Crisis
A call to action for recognising and funding genuine, community-led gender-just climate solutions, providing women access to clean energy to meet their daily needs.
The hills are alive with the songs of change
How Sahyadri School KFI is nourishing alternatives in education to revive students’ connections to the land
Van Gujjars help conserve forests, but are deprived of rights
The Van Gujjars – a pastoralist community in Uttarakhand – are on the frontline of climate change, but their role in forest management is limited by the rights they are denied