This program aims at developing and promoting sustainable approaches and strategies caring and protecting our common home – Mother Earth. ORBIT has been working in rural areas with the farmers, women and youth since 1993. As the people of the district are predominantly agriculturists and most part of the agriculture is rain fed, they depend on rains for the cultivation and thereby for sustainable living. Constant droughts in the region has doubled the woes of the already impoverished people. Hence ORBIT understanding the situation, pulled its resources together and ventured into the Watershed program thereby helping people to sustain agricultural activities. ORBIT successfully completed seven watershed programs covering over 4000 acres of land. ORBIT also has been protecting the environment by promoting planting of saplings in all is project area.
Along with this ORBIT also has launched awareness on using alternative source of energy. It has promoted usage of Solar Energyamong farmers and households. ORBIT has installed Solar powered lights, solar water heaters in its own campus and in its sub centres and care homes.
ORBIT also has started campaign against use of single usae plastic and reducing the quantum of plastic in day today life to protect the soil and environment. It has started using and promoting cloth bags, cloth banners etc in this direction.
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Protection and sustainable management of Natural Resources by caring for Mother Earth
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- Promote rain water harvesting by promoting farm ponds, check dams, water harvesting pits, nala bunds, farm bund etc
- To utilize and promote alternative source of energy.
- To protect environment by promoting planting of saplings, reducing the usage of plastic, using renewable household goods etc.
- To promote organic farming and organic animal/ bird rearing.
- To spread awareness of ecological imbalances, climate change and protection of nature.
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- Formation of Farmer’s groups
- Construction of farm ponds, check dams, Borewell Recharge Pits, water/percolaton & harvesting pits, nala bunds, farm bunds etc
- Preparing vermin compost, organic pesticides, seed bank etc
- Linkages for farmers and people for organic farming, alternate energy.
- Distribution of solar lights, lantens, solar powered machines
- Awareness program on plastic and its ill effects, organic farming, water harvesting, alternate energy, climate change, ecological imbalance.
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Farmers Benefited 650 Other Beneficiaries 10250 Farm Pounds 295 Check Dam 16 Field Bunds 1680 Man Power 13085 Gully Checks 440 Nala Bunds 8 Solar Lights 320 Solar Water Heater 9 Solar Power for institutes 12 Solar Sewing Machines 13 Bio Gas 18 Rain Harvesting Pits 12 Vermi Compost Units 27