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 Jharkhand, a natural resource, mineral -rich region
is sadly, also ‘rich' in the ways and kinds of exploitation against
tribal societies that live in these regions. Dayamani Barla's is an
inspiring story of a tribal woman who decided to stand up and campaign
for issues that continue to erase, erode and impoverish tribal
societies in Jharkhand in the name of development.
Dayamani, educated at the Ranchi University, has been writing articles
in Hindi in regular newspapers and magazines like Prabhat Khabhar for
the last ten years. Her writings powerfully articulate the exploitation
faced by tribal communities, especially women. She strongly believes
that by taking the voices of the tribal communities to the common
public on issues of tribal women's empowerment, health, local
self-governance and on Government's Tribal policies, common people can
be made aware of the real situations on the ground and thus participate
and influence development policies in the right direction.
She has been a powerful campaigner working shoulder-to-shoulder with
the community on different issues ranging from eviction of tribals due
to the Koel Karo Project, hazards of Uranium mining to forced
prostitution of tribal women.
A recipient of the Counter Media Award for better rural
journalism(2000) and the National Foundation for India Fellowship
(2004), Dayamani runs a local tea-shop for a regular living which she
claims is also one of the best places to listen to the ‘voices of the
people'! AID supports her work as a Saathi. Link to her writting
She is in US from Nov 7 - Dec 11 and following is schedule and response by various chapter. Contact 301-422-4441/301-345-5308 for more detail or schedule her visit in you chapter.
| Location | Tentative Schedule
| Contact Person
| AID Philadelphia
| 8th Dec | Parag ( justparag@yahoo.com) | AID Boston
| 10-11 Nov
| Rajasekhar Jammalamadaka (301-717-1059)
| AID Bay Area
| 28-30 Nov
| Anu Mandavalli (amandavilli@yahoo.com) |
Some Comments by Volunteer Boston will be hosting Dayamani Barlaji on Sunday Nov 11th!!!
Rajasekhar Jammalamadaka
AID hosuton is interested in inviting Dayamani Barla preferably in 3rd
week of Nov. (17th to 23rd Nov) Please let me know the available dates.
Rashim Singh
AID Philly would like to host Dayamani in first week of December we are also trying to
coordinate with Penn's India center and judge if they are interested in
hosting with us jointly. Vijay Seshadri
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