Dear Community,
We are back with the Green Life Conservancy’s updates from the second quarter of 2025. We shall be glad to receive your thoughts, opinions, support, feed-forward and more in this regard.
Beginning the communication of the quarter with a heartfelt gratitude to all our contributors for making everything we do possible. Especially to all those of you who fuelled the Visual Storytelling project. Over four days, we immersed ourselves in creativity, fun, and learning. Our facilitators and participants mutually benefited from the workshop, with Sanket’s stream activities being a highlight. We discovered a new art form, natural painting, and learnt to structure stories and craft narratives that reflected the local landscape, culture, and more. Stay tuned for our next workshop in July, featuring an improved format and exciting outcomes!
Special thanks to –
Ketki Garg, Bengaluru
Kruthi Rao, Bengaluru
Himanshu Gupta, Florida
Simran Raizada, Dublin
Rohan Sarkar, Dublin
Raunaq Shah, Kolkata
Vijay Bhaskar Murthy, Bengaluru
Nilesh Korgaokar, Nainital
Kruthi Subramanium, Bengaluru
Jaya and Atul Shah, Happy Children’s Library, Nainital
We invite you to support our mission, of delivering alternative learning experiences to the youth of Uttarakhand’s rural areas.
Expansion of our community, mentors and support!!
We are immensely grateful for the fellowship support we have received from the Centre for Learning, (CFL) Secunderabad. It has been engaged in an ongoing enquiry into what is (quality) education. The fellowship is a way of supporting those disenchanted with the mainstream lifestyle and livelihoods to explore ways of living that fulfil one’s emotional and personal needs whilst also being in harmony and nurturing the living environment around us.
A Resourceful Offering
Video based Nature learning module
We design video content through ONDto disseminate knowledge/ awareness. We use them in various forms, and one such form is as a tool for facilitating Nature-based learning and Environmental education. We have curated an easy-to-follow process of a Video-based facilitating module for nature learning. Stay tuned for more such resources!
Updates from the quarter!!
What are we upto On Nature’s Duty?
We have officially entered the production cum exploration stage of our documentary project addressing the Human-Wildlife interaction/conflict pertinent across Uttarakhand. Our friend Sanket, a picture book cum performative artist, has collaborated with us on various expeditions we have undertaken as a part of the project.
We are simultaneously researching, attempting to raise funds and build a network. We seek leads and support in this regard.
Visual Storytelling Workshop at the Happy Children’s Library
In continuation, the students involved in the workshop at the Happy Children’s Library came with a lot of exposure to alternative forms of learning, which made it easier for us to facilitate the sessions. They constructed narratives (the part that links OND’s project on the human-wildlife interaction/conflict) besides highlighting our shortcomings and the need for improvements and changes in our facilitation methods. We shall carry forward this learning to our further workshops. We are highly thankful to the children who participated, Jaya and Atul for lending us the opportunity and space to execute it, and all those who helped us through 🙂
Check out our social media post about the workshop.
Bird Comics with the students from Primary Goverment School, Majhera, Nainital
Bird Comics is among the best-performing activities across groups and diverse geographies. The current turn was of Majhera’s government school. The activity, in general, brings images and imagination to life, and children thoroughly enjoy creating art. We used early bird flashcards even as reference images for the children to draw bird pictures. The part where they create stories from the art is an interesting combination of imagination, fantasy and reality. A few impressive titles of the comics created by this group of students- Pakshiyon ki daud (Bird Race), Sathbhai ka jhundh (group of Jungle Babblers)
Nature Vidya Stall at Annual Day of Happy Children’s Library
The Nature Vidya stall, of bird models and an interactive activity, was a grand success during the Happy Children’s Library’s Annual Day. Green Life Conservancy regularly facilitates the Nature Vidya sessions for the library, and the students had to display their Nature-learning through the stall. We designed an easy-to-interact session for students and visitors through which the latter had to identify the commonly heard bird calls in the village. The stall was decorated using beautiful paper-ball bird models that the children had created with Sonal and Samarth. We are grateful for the volunteering offered by Anita and Rita to prepare the students for the stall.
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