Nandini Awareness Campaign at Kada Village

    

Tal. Visnagar, Dist. Mehsana

Nandini Van moves around the villages of Gujarat to spread the message of cleanliness, health and water

conservation. Mafatbhai Patel, father-in-law of Jayeshbhai is working in Kada Village, and Nandini Van visited his village to support Mafatbhai. Nandini Van along with the young volunteers worked in Kada village to spread the awareness about cleanliness, health and water conservation.

This was a 3 days camp and every morning they began with a prabhat feri followed by cleaning the village, spending time with the children and educating them about health and hygiene, and engaging the youth and the adults in various constructive activities. Post lunch the volunteers moved around the village spreading and increasing the magnitude and importance of cleanliness in the village. They collected the empty oil cans from the villagers and made dust-bins out of them and then the villagers themselves distributed these dust-bins to the shopkeepers of the village. They also spent time with the primary and high school children and inspired them on how they can spread cleanliness in the entire village by following hygiene practices themselves. 

Shri Jayeshbhai and Anarben also visited the village one day and spent time with the high school students sharing and inspiring them towards the importance of a clean village. Their talk inspired the kids to start cleaning activities in village. It was beautiful to see Jayeshbhai and Anarben join the children in all the cleaning they were doing. z

The urinal in the village was extremely dirty. They cleaned it, coloured the walls and wrote inspiring quotes about cleanliness on the walls. The toilet was inaugurated by Shri Mafatbhai. During these three days the mothers, youth and elders were shown the Nandini Van, Nandini exhibition and toilet models. Nandini itself is an ideal home. It inspires us to build an ideal home.

We tried to create a loving relationship with the villagers with the help of small acts of kindness and services. In the evening they gathered in a common space and shared the message of cleanliness, health and water conservation through theater and documentaries. Through discussions Shri Mafatbhai extended his loving feelings towards the village and heartily expressed his support.

These small but humble efforts inspired the 25 families of the village to construct toilets in their homes. It was

humbling to see that capable families extended their financial support to the underprivileged and needy families to build their own toilets. These capable families were inspired by Shri Mafatbhai’s and Jayeshbhai’s pure intentions for the village. At present the villagers are working on the construction of 250 toilets.

The voice of silence has never been denied.