Dear Community,
We, the team of Green Life Conservancy, are delighted to bring you the updates from the first quarter of 2025. First of all, we are grateful and would like to thank each of you for extending your support in any and every form possible.
You will find sections varying in the newsletter, including offerings, announcements, happy news, challenges, and a funding appeal. Share it as relevant, and follow us on social media platforms for regular updates.
Launch of our Website
We launched the website of Green Life Conservancy Foundation in the first week of January, beginning a journey of documentation and visibility. It was a well-thought-out month-long process of designing and content creation, indulging multiple additions and updates. Now, we are set to regularly update our website describing our latest offerings, developments, establishments, challenges, communal support and more.
A resourceful offering
Nature based Learning materials for the Learners and the Facilitators.
We have designed and documented modules and sessions to make learning fun and effortless. A few of the materials are generic and widely applicable, while a few are age-specific, season-specific, regional-specific and alike. Usually, we display these curations as creative commons on our website. Through such content creation and display, we aim to ensure the democratisation of knowledge/ information flow. Every learner, facilitator, educator, and parent should have access to the learning material.
Feel free to go through the resources, use them as you like and keep an eye out for more such learning tools to come-
Delightful Announcements
Expansion of our Community
Green Life Conservancy is now a member of the Western Himalayan Vikalp Sangam, The Himalaya Collective. We credit this move to our friend Alex Jensen, a Research and Project coordinator with the Local Futures organisation, who recommended us to the group! We are delighted about this expansion in our community circle. A bit about the collective-
The Western Himalayan Vikalp Sangam (WHVS) is a process connecting individuals and organisations focused on alternatives in the Western Himalayan regions of India in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir. Part of the broader Vikalp Sangam, it has been active since 2016
The Himalaya Collective, an open-source platform that shares stories, perspectives and resources, emerged out of deliberations of the Western Himalayan Vikalp Sangam in 2019.
Sparking an Interest in Urban Ecology
After Lucknow and Moradabad, Shruthi facilitated a Nature Exploration Camp conducted by the Pratham Foundation in Bangalore. The students here came from a semi-urban background since they lived in the periphery areas of the fast-paced Bangalore. They had exposure to urban opportunities and modernity, so if they lacked anything, it was the connection with whatever of their natural environment was left. Our facilitator took this opportunity to get the participants to observe the urban ecology they shared.
Check out the documentation of the camp and its Instagram post, show us some love ☺️
UPCOMING PROJECTS & WORKSHOPS
The team of On Nature’s Duty, in collaboration with a Performative Artist, Sanket Petkar, from Mumbai, is geared up with a new project addressing the Human-Wildlife interaction/ conflict pertinent across Uttarakhand.
The concept of the documentary film is the brainchild of the filmmaker Paras. He plans to execute a new method of filming and storytelling to showcase an unbiased image of the perspectives of the various stakeholders of the subject.
Currently, the team is in the phase of research and fundraising attempts. We shall be grateful for any leads or support in this regard.
A Visual Storytelling Workshop.
As part of the OND’s project Sanket will be facilitating a visual storytelling workshop in June 2025 for the children associated with School of Nature’s regular programs. This workshop aims to explore the power of visual storytelling as a means of creative expression, communication, and social engagement.
It will benefit the participants to gain a deeper understanding of storytelling through visual mediums. Hands-on experience in developing characters, storyboards, and sequential narratives. Exposure to collaborative and participatory storytelling methods which would help the participants to be inclusive towards their surroundings. Fostering the idea of coexistence among young minds.
We are two facilitators aiming to reach 40 children through 2 workshops during a span of 10 days. Happy Children’s Library has aided us by extending a contribution of the stationary materials required for the workshop. Feel free to reach out to learn the budget breakdown/ details, or if you would like to cover the individual components of it, we shall be truly grateful. Every penny of your contribution will allow us to extend this learning to one more child.
Cost of the Workshop per child- 2425/-
Aid Green Life Conservancy with funding resources for the workshop.
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