Author: Earth Focus

Across 36 schools, an after-school programme is bringing together play, ecology, art, and local culture.

From degraded farms to diversified livelihoods, a 51-acre restoration effort in the buffer zone of Kanha Tiger Reserve shows how portfolio-based philanthropy can support ecological recovery and community wellbeing.

A financial literacy workshop in Kanha began with budgeting and savings. It soon became a conversation about family, responsibility, aspirations, and who gets included in financial conversations.

In the buffer zone of the Kanha Tiger Reserve, 907 mothers from 39 Mata Samitis (Mothers’ Committees) have transformed informal discussions into organised community action — repairing classrooms, improving school attendance, and pushing local authorities to deliver change.

A biodiversity programme in the buffer zone of Kanha Tiger Reserve is finding that when teaching starts from what families already know, ecological learning, cultural practice and community participation strengthen one another.

What began as a conversation about a leaking classroom in Madhya Pradesh became a catalyst for a wider process that has, over time, brought together over 1,000 mothers across 39 Mothers’ Committees – reshaping schools, homes and futures in the buffer zone of the Kanha Tiger Reserve. 

Curricula can be infused with scientific and technical know-how alongside indigenous and local knowledge. The cross-cutting imperative should be to foster critical thinking instead of rote learning so that the next generation can embrace complexity and make informed choices. Instead of mirroring a broken development paradigm predicated on an extractive relationship with nature, India can […]