The Wise Wall Project is an initiative to document the rural wisdom of our villages and celebrate it through art murals. The project aims to improve social health, showcase culture, highlight folktales and generate employment through responsible tourism. The project transforms villages into living classrooms, turning their walls into blackboards and canvases that uncover striking yet simple life learnings.
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The state of Uttarakhand is endowed with rich cultural heritage, which has been kept alive through its exquisite art and crafts. This exclusive episodic series presents stories of seven master artisans who bring these craft forms to life. The wisdom of these artisans acts as a tool of visibility, giving them a platform to narrate their personal stories and their passion, celebrating unrecognised and dying craft practices that need preservation.
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Digital Village Fellowship was a six-month initiative for imparting education to the children and young adults in the village. Two fellows were appointed to teach English and computers to the students. The main objective was to provide better quality education, build an alternative space for learning outside the school environment and enable access to computers, which were not available in local schools.
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Weaving is one of the oldest traditional crafts of Uttarakhand and provided employment to women in the hills. The dwindling market for traditional handloom products makes it difficult for them to sustain themselves. In an effort to revive the market and bring forth the stories of the women behind the looms, FUEL Foundation Society collaborated with the Hans Foundation for the programme Lessons From The Loom.
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FUEL Human Festival is a four-day immersive journey of self-exploration, storytelling, exchanging philosophies and, most importantly, learning and sharing the wisdom of our lives with people like and unlike us. The festival gives local artists from Uttarakhand a platform to showcase their craft and a source of income through their workshops. Their work was shared widely across social media and led to more income opportunities.
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During the Wise Wall Project in Saur, many villagers recounted the fond memory of a fair that used to be celebrated with great fervour before migration hit the belt. The thought of its revival gave birth to the Saur Village Festival, celebrated with the support of Yuva Mangal Dal, a Jhadipani-based youth social welfare group. The festival created employment opportunities for local villagers and furthered the effort of rebuilding Saur.
We are facilitating the setting up of Growth Centres in Khyarsi and Thano, strategically planned units with multifold functional benefits for the native agriculture and horticulture communities. We are curating these spaces with a local character based on indigenous style that narrates the story of the region, helping the community build a connection and sense of belonging.
ILSP is a joint initiative of the Uttarakhand Government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to reduce poverty by enabling rural households to take up sustainable livelihood opportunities. To celebrate the initiative and promote the incredible work being done by the communities, we created a photo postcard series.
The Out of Syllabus Project is an initiative to document, design, collate and celebrate the wisdom of our teachers through the stories of their lives and life lessons. The project transforms school aisles into Wisdom Corridors: galleries of teachers' life lessons that students can stumble upon and turn to when feeling lost or alone.