Academic trip to a village
Students are welcome to organise village trips, to experience the life of the tribal community and to take a closer look at its culture and traditions.
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Come to Jhabua. Live in a village for a week, a month, or two years. Almost nobody who does it goes home thinking what they thought on the way in.
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श्री महेश शर्मा का सन्देश
A message to everyone who has come to Jhabua
प्रिय मित्रवर!
आप सभी मित्र अलग-अलग समय पर झाबुआ में आये हैं। हमारे लिए, आपका आना एक सुखद अनुभव रहा है। आशा है आपके मन में भी झाबुआ की सुखद अनुभूतियाँ और स्मृतियाँ होंगी।
समय-समय पर झाबुआ आने वालों का अब एक ऐसा बड़ा समूह हो गया है, जो झाबुआ आने के बाद समाज को एक नयी दृष्टि से समझ रहे हैं। सभी के मन में सामाजिक बदलाव में अपनी भूमिका के निर्वहन को लेकर कईं प्रश्न रहते हैं।
मुझे लगता है कि सामर्थ्यशील युवाओं का इतना बड़ा समूह एक बड़ी भूमिका निभाकर भारत के भविष्य की रूपरेखा तय कर सकता है।
साग्रह निवेदन है कि परमार्थ की प्रेरणा में अवश्य सहभागी हों।
आपका सदैव
महेश शर्मा
शिवगंगा झाबुआ
आओ मिलकर विचार करें, नये भारत का भविष्य गड़ें।।
Students’ involvement
Three ways in
Whether you have a week between terms or two years after your degree, there is a way to spend it here.
Internship programmes
Come and stay with the tribal people of Jhabua, and give a real sense to your modern education. Interns have stayed anywhere from two to six months.
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If you want to serve Mother Earth, this opportunity is for you — on the ground in Jhabua, or from your own city as a Friend of Jhabua.
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Contribution & CSR partners
Partner with the movement
We believe tribal societies, if preserved and hand-held, can show us a path of sustainable social and environmental living. Shivganga looks for a hand-holder in its vision and mission — someone who can collaborate and become a partner in the change.
अनुभूति · Anubhuti
What they wrote afterwards
Interns and students who came to Jhabua, in their own words. Most of these were written just after Halma 2020.
Halma taught me a valuable lesson — I am not alone; none of us is alone. There are several others like me, who keep contributing towards the society, and there are several more who are even more committed.
Halma is an event where you meet your real family members. Nothing is strange and an inner connection is there; everybody is selflessly working for the higher cause. Halma — an opportunity to do the yoga of work.
What can an individual do for society? Many of us are confused. Being fortunate to witness the movement Halma, the answer became clear to me: it is not an individual battle. Real development can only happen when the masses come together. Halma exemplifies that this is the best approach and solution to planetary problems like global warming.
Jhabua gave me the most important and precious paths of life — what it means to live as a true human being, and what true humanity is. We dream of a land where women are treated with respect, where they can live freely. I have already seen that place. The love and the purity of the land, if I am not exaggerating, touch our soul and change us, and make us believe that a land of pure love can exist.
One thing that I realised is that it does not matter whether you are rich or poor. It is about having gratitude towards God for giving whatever we have. The tribal communities of Jhabua may have many survival issues, but they never complain about things. Their traditional and cultural values are firm. They know how to deal with problems with self-respect.
Can a great cause be achieved without violence, protests or a silent march? If you go by today’s scenario, maybe the answer would be no. But thankfully I know it is indeed possible, and fortunately I have been part of such a mass movement — Halma. A one-of-a-kind experience, which taught me to value nature.
My concept of seeing them as needy, or that we can help them, totally changed. Now I understand I have to learn from them — how to work collectively, how to love unconditionally, and how to work for mother nature. They made me hopeful that it is not too late to take action, and that every step towards change matters.
It is rare to see more than 20,000 people coming and working together, selflessly, for the cause of nature. We believe it can happen when we see this great tradition — Halma. This trip made us realise how much we have to learn about ourselves and the environment.
I used to live in a world where I was forced to believe that keeping ourselves above others is the only way to lead a happy life. However, after I visited Jhabua, everything seemed to change, for good. The community of Jhabua is one such perfect example, where love, duty and care towards the people and towards nature can be simultaneously seen.
Come and see it for yourself
The quickest way to understand any of this is to spend a week in a village that is doing it. Tell us when you can come.