Today I headed out tot he field to spend some time in a local village and participate in the CBM program as the facilitators took the data for our surveys. We visited the village of Jaloda in the Phalodi block. Of all 3 blocks in the original CBM project, Phalodi has had the least complete results. This may be due to village issues such as: lack of awareness, lack of motivation, internalized discrimination to the point where villagers don’t want to make any changes, etc. It may also be due to facilitator issues such as: lack of training, lack of time; lack of support for villagers to form a village collective, lack of manpower, personality issues between facilitators and villagers, etc.
This is the small temple in the village. The meeting took place on it's patio.
Jaloda's social map of their village.
The CBM meeting taking place.
Same meeting, another angle.
The beginning of the meeting when not many people were present. As you can see in the above 2 pictures more people showed up, 22 in total.
Mr. Divedi, my translator, standing with a few of the village boys.
Mr. Divedi giving the boys a little lecture on the importance of education.
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