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EMPOWERING INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN WAYANAD, INDIA
Although India is known as one of the world's 'largest democracies,' inequality persists due to the caste system that still very much exists. Indigenous people, especially, are considered by higher-caste locals to be the lowliest of the low--primitive, ignorant, and lazy. These misconceptions are completely misguided and only perpetuate the problem--No hope, no faith, no future. Our indigenous brethren are exploited for labour, child prostitution, their land, their knowledge, their way of life--losing much of their pride, self-respect, and dignity in the process. Doors of opportunity will fly open with education and knowledge in hand.
Swami Vivekananda Medical Mission (SVMM), a hospital in Wayanad, aims to provide free healthcare and education to the indigenous people of the area and has done so since the 1970s. However the government of Kerala has been retracting funding for this hospital's initiatives over the past few years.
Education=Emancipation. Knowledge=Power.
THE SCHOOLS
The schools and classes that SVMM runs are small and tailored to the needs of each village they serve. The idea is to have a series of smaller schools so that the village dynamic is altered as little as possible and so that the children receive personal attention to encourage their studies and performance. The 'schools' are currently running--but children are coming to 'classes' that are usually held literally in the dirt (see above photo). This becomes a problem in South India due to the wet monsoon season, which prevents classes from running for around 3 months of the year. This type of learning environment does not offer the respect the children and teachers deserve (not to mention that clothes and books become very dirty from being on the ground all the time, which is also very unhygienic). Also, many of these children have household duties during the day and do not have electricity so they can not read or study at night when they have free time. The schools will double as study halls with electricity.
BROKEN CASTE
Though firm statistics are lacking in the community, it is a general observation that the indigenous progress (attendance and graduation) rate in school is relatively abysmal. Indigenous children are stigmatized in government schools because of their caste and because they can not afford things like new clothes. Some villages have different dialects, so children are teased. As a result, these children do not feel comfortable in these schools and their parents do not feel it is a good environment for their children, so many indigenous children do not survive in the mainstream government system and miss out on the opportunities education brings. As a note, it is quite common for higher-caste locals to hire indigenous people as 'servants,' 'helpers' and housekeepers.
'INDIGENOUS'
The term can be used to describe any ethnic group of people who inhabit a geographic region within which they have the earliest known historical connection. Indigenous cultures are not frozen in time--they are as dynamic as any other. Though it is a commonly romanticized term and elicits a sense of 'prehistoric nostalgia,' indigenous people the world over face the same human struggles as any other person--if not more due to their commonly low place in their native societies.
GENDER EQUALITY
Around 100 local women, indigenous and non, are currently working as teachers for this project on a volunteer basis. They need to be recognized for their contributions both through having proper teaching facilities and by being paid for their work. Achieving gender equality the world over is a crucial part of moving sustainable development and social consciousness forward. We must always remember that only women may bear the fruit of humanity--a fact that is quite regularly overlooked and unappreciated.
LONGTERM
We plan ..ing build an equal-access teachers' college. We also intend to take political action to have Swami Vivekananda Medical Mission's funding re-issued and to have teachers recognized by the government so they may be given salaries on the government payroll. We will also attempt to gather data on the children and their progress so that progress can be measured and ensured.
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