Is it possible to learn knitting and stitching? I've always wanted to. On 1/14/14, Kannan. C <kankal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Really amazing! > How to contact this school? Please throw some more light on this! > > > With care and regards, > > Kannan ... > > Skype: kankale63 > > Mobile: +919443018832 > > FaceBook: kankal420 > > Twitter: kankal420 > > Linkedin: http://lnkd.in/bTaZjKa > > Blog: http://muslit.blogspot.com > > Favours: groups.google.com/group/inaiathendral/ > > RadioInaiathendral: http://www.arlfi.listen2myradio.com > > On 1/14/2014 2:15 PM, avinash shahi wrote: >> How wonderful. >> http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/city-anchor-visually-impaired-girls-learn-to-grow-vegetables-through-touch/ >> >> For 18-year-old Sangeeta Gaikwad,one of the visually impaired girls at >> Poona School and Home for Blind,mornings are about visiting her >> kitchen garden and checking on the plants in the kitchen garden — >> brinjal,chillies,bottle-gourd,methi ,onion,tomato,etc,harvesting >> vegetables and so on. Between 8 am and 10 am,Sangeeta is in the garden >> — touching the leaves and vegetables,feeling their height and >> size,checking the dryness of leaves and monitoring the growth of these >> plants. She is among 40 blind girls at the school in Kothrud,who are >> being trained in kitchen gardening — claimed to be a first-of-its-kind >> project for the visually impaired in the country. >> >> “We are usually taught vocational trades like >> stitching,sewing,knitting and making candles. However,as most of us >> hail from rural backgrounds,gardening and working in the soil makes us >> happy and is close to our heart,” said Sangeeta,who hails from >> Baramati. Her family is chiefly into cultivation of sugarcane. >> >> The school trains girls in various vocations till they are 18 and >> helps them in starting an activity of their choice when they are ready >> to leave the school. “Girls who wish to develop their own kitchen >> gardens as an income generating activity can be given funds for >> soil,saplings,gardening equipment,etc,from the school,” said Archana >> Sarnobat,administrative officer of the school. >> >> Having gone full-fledged in September last year,the kitchen garden >> yielded six to seven kg of vegetables every day for four months. The >> vegetables were then used in the school’s kitchen. Teams of 15 to 20 >> members from Cummins India Ltd visit the school daily and help the >> girls in cultivating the vegetables. “We have learnt to identify the >> plants by touch,understand whether vegetables are ready to be plucked >> by their size and texture,monitor the growth of plants by their height >> and so on,” said Alka Jadhav,another girl whose father is a farmer in >> Sangli and owns a pomegranate orchard. >> >> Around 40 girls above 16 years of age are being trained in kitchen >> gardening. The programme also involves training in handling small >> farming equipment like sickle and spade and spraying >> insecticides,which is done under the supervision of volunteers from >> Cummins. >> >> It all began when four German volunteers — Angela,Sara,Daria and >> Schini — stayed at the home for a year in 2009 as part of the >> mandatory community service exchange programme. They had made a small >> kitchen garden with the help of visually impaired girls staying there. >> “It was beautiful and we realised that the girls were showing a keen >> interest in developing it. That is when we thought of expanding the >> activity and adding kitchen gardening to our list of vocations,” said >> Sarnobat. >> >> The authorities shared the idea with Cummins Foundation,which has been >> supporting the school since 1974. Accordingly,Cummins gave Rs 1 lakh >> to the school for this purpose. “The biggest challenge was to improve >> the quality of soil so that a variety of vegetables could be grown. >> Once we overcome that,we procured saplings and cultivated brinjals,a >> variety of beans,chillies,coriander,tomato,onion,bitter gourd,etc,” >> said Ravichandran Subramaniam,head of corporate responsibility at >> Cummins Group of Companies in India. >> >> Nine months after successfully running this activity,the school bagged >> an award of $15,000 (Rs 7,47,750) for their kitchen garden and paper >> bags activity at the hands of Jean Blackwell,executive vice president >> (corporate responsibility) and CEO of Cummins Foundation,on Wednesday. >> “We shall utilise this amount to gradually make the school >> self-sustainable in cultivating vegetables and allied plants like >> lime,ginger,mint and curry leaves needed in everyday cooking,” said >> Sulabha Pujari,the school’s head mistress >> >> > > > Time to meet up again! > Register for AccessIndia Convention 2014: > http://accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm > > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. 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