Nishtha Rural Health, Education And Environment Centre

03/12/2025

This month the single women activists held three well attended meetings of women from the different areas in which they work. These block meetings offer women the opportunity to meet useful government officials to learn about the available schemes and to ask questions. The top concern raised is that elderly widows who have no other source of income find managing on a government pension of Rs.1,500 a month very difficult. Itis very hard to imagine how they can possibly even feed themselves!

18/11/2025

Thank you all who joined us on November 5th to celebrate 30 years of dedication and commitment to working in this community. It was a wonderful day, opened by the Dolma Ling Nuns’ prayers and our students very special welcome song. Dr Barbara fondly introduced all our staff and was equally fondly applauded by our special guests who included Jetsuma Tenzin Palmo.

28/10/2025

Such joy to be able to get out the cycles once the skies had cleared!

17/10/2025

So little time between the end of the rains and Diwali that cleaning and preparing has been a frenzy of activity engaging all our staff!

24/09/2025

At last, the monsoon has retreated and we are able to re-start our delivery of fruits and nutrition to 523children in 12 schools and 85 Anganwari children. Three small schools have been closed down and merged with another school which has better facilities. Our staff are pleased to be back into the routine of purchasing and delivering to all the children who are all very happy to see them!

10/09/2025

https://youtu.be/GZQtLzMeaYo?si=m1jv3XAyMJrSlDGd

A Community folk song to spread the word to responsibly dispose of waste to preserve our natural environment.Composed & Performed By: Vijay Bhardwaj SharmaAr...

08/09/2025

Last Sunday our former student, Manish who is in his final year PhD in Economics from CDS Kerela, met the present group of students sponsored by Nishtha to share his story. He told them how he had recently spent two months as an intern in Finland as part of his research in International Trade and Environment. They all felt very encouraged by his visit.

02/09/2025

The computer centre at Nishtha is a refuge for children after school on rainy days.

28/08/2025

Over the past two months, the farm team has put in tremendous effort to develop the farm, despite prolonged rainy days. The team dedicated themselves to cutting the grass, chopping it into small pieces and then mulching all the plants to protect them from the heavy rain washing all the soil from around them. Their dedication has brought visible results, with crops like ladyfinger, long beans, kidney beans, pumpkin, bitter gourd, turmeric, and ginger showing better-than-usual growth. Every Friday, Vijay and Ankush visit the farm with a chart to monitor and analyse the plant performance. The farm team has shown great enthusiasm for this process, maintaining detailed records in their diaries, which greatly aids in preparing reports and assessment for future planting.

13/08/2025

Last week it was the boys turn to be invited to attend workshops for adolescents. Rahul and Vijay conducted one follow up and two new workshops engaging 52 boys between 13 and 19 years only. The follow up group was of local boys who Ankush is encouraging to revive the Rakkar youth club. The two new groups came from a number of villages served by our single women activists who worked very hard to motivate the boys to come. By the end they all felt grateful to have had to opportunity to ask questions and learn about topics from human rights to gender and sexuality in a way that would positively impact their outlook on life.