At NavSahyog, we develop life skills and creativity in village children aged 5–14 years (their most impressionable age) through traditional board games, sports, storytelling, creative activities, and experiential learning.
Our experiential learning is all about children learning about the environment and climate change. Here, we have two programs:
Prakriti Prem - We give a fruit sapling to each child in the village, which they nurture and grow into a fruit tree and we run a competition across clusters of villages.
Jal Vriddhi - We teach children the value of water and how to address the depleting water table problem in villages through the co-creation of farm ponds with bunds with farmers.
We engage children on a daily basis, from Monday to Saturday, throughout the year.
LINKAGES TO LIVELIHOOD: We have added extensions to our core program of Life skills development to address better linkages of life skills to livelihood:
1. Dhan Kaushal ( Financial literacy) for children and youth. 2. Yuva Samriddhi- Self employment training for rural youth in collaboration with CBD-RSETI at Haliyal, Karnataka. 3. Vanya Samriddhi- Development of food forests on 1 acre or more barren lands of farmers. This significantly enhances farmers productivity, makes them more resilient to climate change, opens livelihood opportunities for rural youth and leads to positive climate action in the villages.