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This document illustrates how Kyari propagates its idea and
finds/plans/manages its tasks. The contents below are direct reflection
from experiences of Kyari members.
- Communication:Efficient Communication among team
members as well as with the beneficiaries plays the most important role
in doing any type of work. Especially when many members of Kyari live
far away from Karauli. Communication prepares the ground work, which is
a must to accomplish social work of Kyari. Communication can be done in
many ways, including the following:
- Among Kyari team: Emails, phones, yahoogroup help us a
lot to exchange ideas and keep the spirit high. Members related to a
specific tasks have more communication while others are brought on the
same page by periodic emails, yahoogroup messages etc.
- Immediate known people: If one is living away from
his/her family, then periodic phone calls are important to propagate
idea of Kyari. Phone/email interaction with relatives, friends in your
hometown/village in Karauli helps us in understanding the ground
situation as well as make us more visible in the eyes of local people
and removes unwanted inhibitions.
- Targetted areas: For instance when Kyari wanted to do
plantation in residential colonies, its members made multiple visits to
the residents of that colony. Many times, kyari members gathered few
residents of the colony at one place and held a meeting to convey our
objective of planting trees, without any hidden agenda. Kyari members
living out of Karauli also pariticpated in the discussion over the
phone to generate the confidence. Similarly, other targetted areas for
plantation can be government/private offices, hospitals, educational
institutes, etc. Persistent conversations with employees of offices to
plant trees and take of them can be wonderful as they have lot of land
around offices, which is mostly ignored. Such target areas for other
types of work can be singled out and worked upon.
- Educational institutions: As most kyari members are
young, educated and are from every walk of life, their perspective on
education, career and struggles beyond school can be of great help to
students, who are suitably called "The future of a country".
- Funding: Every member is encouraged to keep aside
some part of his/her income and can keep the money with him/her (in a
separate bank account or as simple as in an envelope, which is what I
do). Members can decide/manage/execute/fund their own project or help
others. In India, a student member can collect Rs.30 a month, while
professional members can collect Rs. 150 a month. Members
living/working out of India can collect 30 in local currency.
Currently, Kyari doesn't have infrastructure to centrally collect funds
and manage the accounting. Kyari doesn't believe in accepting donations
from anybody unless the doner is personally involved in
deciding/executing/managing the project, i.e. Kyari wants to ensure
that doner has a bonding to the project. Read more on FAQ.
- Planting trees in reseintial area:Main points:
- Communication, as explained above, plays a big role.
Kyari selected few colonies and tried to contact as many residents as
possible to identify people to lead the project in their colony.
- Since this was the first time anybody was trying to plant
trees in residential colonies (other than government), Kyari planned to
bear major expenses hoping that more people from other colonies will
get motivated and propagate it further with/wothout our help. A tree in
residential colony needs a tree guard which costs around Rs 500 (brick
or iron). Iron tree-guard have more possibility to get stolen, hence
Kyari preferred brick ones. Most residents aggreed to pay Rs 100. A
contractor was chosen to construct brick tree gaurds in way keeping two
tree-guards atleast 25-30 feet apart. Generally 2-3 brick-cement
tree-guards (crossection 24"X24" and 6 feet high construction of single
brick) can be constructed in a day of . After erecting tree-guard, a
gardener can go inside from top and then plant the tree. Some people
also fabricated iron tree-guards which can be easily put after putting
the plant in place first.
- Best time to plant trees is monsoon (July-Aug-Sept) and
then pre-spring (Jan-Feb). It is better to have plants of atleast
10-12" height, as they have better survival rate. After planting tree,
it needs to be watered everyday for next 20-30 days so that its roots
gain the grip. Local members of Kyari got good help from various
government department officers (forest, social-welfare, education,
etc.) in executing the work.
- Once the tree gets big, its tree-guard can be used elsewhere.
- Education:Kyari members visit schools where they
studied and try to create a rapport with students by having informal
sessions, answering questions and guiding them on career choices, etc.
- Kyari members also interact with teachers to help in
improving teaching practices and to bring it up to scale with good
institues in other big cities.
- Kyari provides some curriculum books (mainly expensive
books of foreign authors, etc.) and competetive exams books to school
library. These can be used as reference by teachers and students alike.
- Students can be instrumental in plantation work.
"Environment Day" can be used to host essay competetions to create
awareness and plants can be gifted to students to plant in their
residences.
--last update on July 19th, 2006 by Himanshu Sharma.
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