Health and Hygiene

Healthcare for all, focusing on preventive, diverse systems of health and medicine

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This section features stories of initiatives ensuring healthcare for all. These are based on approaches that help prevent ill-health in the first place, including the provision of nutritional food, enabling an environment that is healthy, and so on. They include ensuring access to curative facilities to those who have conventionally not had such access. And they have stories of synergizing various health systems, traditional and modern, bringing back into popular use the diverse systems from India and outside including indigenous/folk medicine, nature cure, Ayurvedic, Unani and other such systems, and other holistic or integrative approaches. Community-based management and control of healthcare and hygiene, and ensuring accountability of the state’s responsibility towards citizens in health, would be part of the stories featured here.

जनसाधारण के उभरते विकल्प और उसका सपना (In Hindi)

विकल्प संगम, एक राष्ट्रीय स्तर का मंच है, जिसमें पर्यावरण, सामाजिक, आर्थिक, सांस्कृतिक और स्वशासन संबंधी मुद्दों पर काम करने वाले स्थानीय समुदायों, सामाजिक आंदोलनों और कई गैर सरकारी संगठन जुड़े हैं।

Vikalp Sangam (विकल्प संगम): A Confluence of Alternatives: Film

It covers some of the events of the process – confluences, documentation, outreach, collaborations, artwork and more – and some key voices of people involved.

The Kutchi Weave: A district’s inter-woven response to complex crises 

One can take inspiration from the interwoven model of responses across an entire district and that too done with so much love and compassion and an unending spirit of seva (service).

चिपको की तरह दक्षिण भारत का अप्पिको (In Hindi)

अप्पिको के साथ दक्षिण भारत में पर्यावरण बचाने के लिए कई और पहल हुई हैं| अप्पिको से शुरूआत के बाद छह राज्यों में पश्चिमी घाट बचाओ आंदोलन भी चल रहा है, जो पर्यावरण बचाने की महत्वपूर्ण पहल है।

മൗലികമായ പരിവർത്തനങ്ങളിലേക്ക് (In Malayalam)

സുസ്ഥിരതക്കും നീതിക്കും തുല്യതക്കും വേണ്ടിയുള്ള വികൽപ് സംഗം പ്രക്രിയ ഒരു ദശാബ്ദം പിന്നിടുമ്പോൾ.

Three Inspirational Decades of Vanvadi

What began as an initiative in ecological restoration has grown into an inspiring, and yet evolving, learning centre, that offers a living example of how to live in harmony with nature. 

Declaration on Traditional Governance Systems of India (In English and Hindi)

"We commit to sustaining or reviving our community knowledge systems, while exploring and absorbing elements from other knowledge systems that will benefit us, and exploring educational systems that build on our knowledge, culture and language."

Interfaith Approaches to Global Crises

The meeting was organized to kickstart a network or think-tank of individuals who are committed to peace and social justice.

A Farming city: Farming along the banks of Yamuna

The narrative strongly advocates for localised and decentralised farming as an alternative for ecological deterioration, urban food insecurity, and the weakening of social bonds.