Plustrust Anchors, Madhya Pradesh
Pramila Chouhan, Khandwa
Pramila is from Khalwa block, Khandwa district in Madhya Pradesh, where she belongs to korku tribal community. In the initial years of her journey in life, she has faced many problems and difficulties because when she was young her family needs to constantly migrate place to place in search of work because of unemployment and she did not even got the chance to complete her class 2 because she has to take care of her younger brother while her parents are out for work. Her family has seen the worst of the time anyone could possible imagine for a family, from tackling starvation to migrate place to place in search of work. She also mentioned that there are many such experiences from her past that are impossible to describe in words.
She had struggled very hard to complete her schooling because many girls in her community did not even get a chance to enroll in the school.
Because of the very simple life style of her Korku community, other communities discriminate with them. Many people from her community has lost their land to Sahukars (money landers) and now because of lack of work they need to migrate to different cities where again they face physical, mental and financial exploitation.
To save the people of her community from starvation and to make them stay in their home, she is working today and bringing a huge change in her society through education and providing necessity skill sets to earn their livelihood with pride and self-respect.
She became a part of Plustrust organization in the year 2019, and so far she has identified 3 RWE fellows through a workshop conducted by her in February 2020. She is very determined and hardworking by her nature and she will continue her journey to improve the health and living standard of her village.
Vasudha Kapoor, Ujjain
Vasudha is from Mandi district, Himachal Pradesh. She is a Plustrust Fellow since 2019; she started as RWE fellow and then went on to becoming an Anchor. She is a Post Graduate and Gold medalist in Human Development and Childhood studies from the University of Delhi. She has an immense academic interest in gender and human development.
She has co-founded ‘Mera Gaon Meri Duniya with a bunch of passionate youth who are working towards bringing a sustainable change in the communities. She is working towards building an enabling ecosystem where youth can explore their ethical leadership. Larger idea of ‘Mera Gaon Meri Duniya’ is building an ecosystem for youth who can lead the sustainable social change with their community and the Plustrust Anchor Program will give her the opportunity to build this ecosystem for the rural area of Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh.
This Anchor program gives her the space to unlearn and re-learn her constructs related to the area of building an ecosystem and creating empowering structures for the society. She want to closely understand the program they build on the basis of needs of the native youth and educational institutions on ground and how can she best deal with the challenges coming due to uncertainty.
She has also worked with the Ministry of Women ad Child Development, Himachal Pradesh towards building structures to empower children in correctional settings in rural areas of Himachal Pradesh. A project with Delhi AIDS Control Society with sex workers in East Delhi and children residing in slum settings of central Delhi has been another area of work.
She has closely worked with Save the Children, Delhi State Office to understand social upliftment initiatives of the organization through photo documentation of various functional programs. Vasudha is a pahadi at heart who loves to discover and tell stories. She enjoys getting into the details and focuses on depth in learning.
Know more about Mera Gaon Meri Duniya :
www.meragaonmeridunia.org
Nageshwar Panchal, Ujjain
Nageshwar Panchal is a social entrepreneur currently working as Director at Mera Gaon Meri Dunia (NGO registered under Sec 8 Companies Act) based in Ujjain, he is also passionate towards building sustainability in the community through decentralized model of leadership and service.
He became Plustrust Anchor in year 2020 Along with his Team Member and Plustrust Anchor Vasudha Kapoor, presently they both are facilitating the Plustrust Fellowship model in collaboration with ‘Mera Gaon Meri Duniya’ in the rural areas of Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh. Nagesh has been among the founder members of Go-On India and Sanima. He is among the first cohort of School for Social Entrepreneurs India. He is also the part of world’s largest train journey Jagriti Yatra to build India through enterprise.
Nageshwar has played an active role in systemic transformation in government and aided schools to ensure that the environment is conducive of quality education. He has closely worked with teachers to build upon their skills to create engaging classrooms where life skills are nurtured through academics.
Nageshwar is a poet at heart and a movie-enthusiast. He loves to connect with people, groups, and organizations and has an eye of an explorer.
Anand Tandiya, Mandla
Anand Tandiya belongs to a village called Thijora, in Bishiya block, Mandla district Madhya Pradesh. She started working in the NGO sector in 2007 and was associated with a CRY project. During this time, she pursued her studies and completed her BA, MSW and PGDCA. She worked on a CRY Fellowship till 2016. She has also worked with organizations like Vikas Samvaad in Bhopal and other social issues such as health, nutrition.
In 2018 Anand joined the Rural Women Edupreneur Fellowship offered by Plustrust to work with the Adivasi Baiga communities in the field of education. During her fellowship she was also actively involved in the Covid – 19 relief work and helped many tribal families in dealing with the lockdown crisis. As an anchor with Plustrust, Anand continues to work with the Baiga tribal communities in the Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh to change the negative attitude towards the education of their children.
