Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, India: Beyond the Drought

AKRSP - Beyond DroughtBeyond the drought is a documentary on how a few villages in Kutch have made collective effort to establish fodder banks and rainwater harvesting system in their villages to address the issue of food and water scarcity during a drought.

This has reduced their vulnerability during natural disasters.

The film, made with support of Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, Bhuj, was used to take the message from these villages to different corners of the district.

The trilingual film made in Kutchi, Gujarati and Hindi was funded by the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund.

The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme used this film to motivate the youth in villages to form a mandala (group) to keep an eye on the expenses being made on the social occasions.

All the section of people joined this movement to stop unnecessary expenses.


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