Nomad RSI - Therapeutic diversity and the environment

In 1998, Nomad RSI launched a project on environmental education and medicinal plant utilisation in partnership with Kriyasheela Geleyaru, an Indian NGO.

The project took place in an isolated region in northern Karnataka, 30kms from the famous temples of Hampi in an area populated by the semi-nomadic Lambani people and home to the Sandur National Park for medicinal plant conservation.

It has since been handed over entirely to Kriyasheela Geleyaru.

 Evaluation of partners’ existing project activities
 Fundraising assistance
 creation of education tools for use in schools and technical training courses
 Teacher training and assistance for activists in five pilot schools
 Publication of a story with themes of the forest and medicinal plants; organisation of a writers’workshop for local writers and the selection of ten folk tales.
 Training of trainers in the use of new educational tools and techniques, using child-to-child methodologies; integration of modules in schools on environmental protection and medicinal plants.
 Training in botany and on the use of local plants as alternative treatments in primary healthcare.

Nomad RSI thus arrived in India. The Karnataka project provided a fertile setting for the blending of the technical skills and methodology of Nomad RSI with the local knowledge, experience and cultural approach of the Indian organisation.

Other past projects

 Cambodia - Preah Vihear
 Senegal
 Nepal
 India - Tamil Nadu
 Andorra