Village study

Village study-----Karadikoppa 11 and 12 feb 2009

As a part of village study we Chandru Lamani, Fathima, Devadanam and Mahanthaswami were posted to Karadikoppa village. Before that Mr. Prakash Bhatt took theory classes to all fellows for 6 days. On 10th Feb we had PRA in Kamplikoppa village. After that on 11th Feb we all went to Karadikoppa village.

STARTED OUR MISSION

— WE VISITED INAMVEERAPUR
— OBSERVED SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE MODEL OF AME FOUNDATION
PRA TOOLS WE USED ARE
• TRANSACT WALK
• SOCIAL MAP AND RESOURCE MAP
• VENN DIAGRAM
• TIME LINE
• SEASONAL MAPPING
• MATRIX RANKING (CROPS)
• FGD

PROBLEMS IN THE VILLAGE
• SAFE DRINKING WATER
• LIVELIHOOD OPPORTUNITIES
• ALCOHOLOSM
• LACK OF HEALTH SERVICES
• MIGRATION
• School Drop out.
• Lack of Sanitation/Clean.
• Dominant form High cost.
• Child marriage.

We did transect walk outside the village.we walk nearly 4 km outside the village to study how much cultivated land and how much land is baren.We had some fun while walking in the banana and other fields.in the fields we had lunch with the farmers,really it was a wonderful experience.

We saw one indigeneous technology in these village.One farmer were using guttar water to plants.He made that guttar water to flow to one tank and form that he fixed one pump and from that pump the water will folw to the the plants.