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Arunachal Pradesh:

Arunachal Pradesh is one of India ’s most diverse states, ecologically and culturally. Arunachal Pradesh contains 40% of the floral and faunal species of India . The world’s bananas and citrus originate here. It is home to communities from 26 major tribes and more than 100 sub-tribes whose culture, livelihood, and food security is tied to the jungle.

Since 1998, Future Generations Arunachal has been working with the three largest communities in the state from which the program is expanding. Working through women’s groups, farmers clubs and local coordinating committees, local people have improved awareness and access to basic healthcare, improved the status of women, started micro-credit projects, adult literacy classes and promoted non-timber forest products in order to protect their environment. These three core communities are now becoming Learning and Doing Centers (LDCs) to not only train neighboring communities, but to become training sites for locally elected Panchayat leaders from across the state.

For more details on Arunachal Pradesh, please click here: <Arunachal Pradesh>.

Uttaranchal: .

On November 9th, 2000 , Uttaranchal became a new state in India . Carved from the largest state in the country, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal is a mountainous state surrounded by the neighboring states of Himachal Pradesh, Harayana and Uttar Pradesh, and the countries of Nepal and China .

Uttaranchal faces many social and environmental challenges. Communities suffer from a descending spiral of health, economic, and environmental living conditions that are especially debilitating to the poorest 25%. Infant mortality in the poor rural communities is at a rate of 73 deaths/1000 (SRS Bulletin 2002). Men must migrate to find work. Growing numbers of people living off the land are impacting grasslands, forests, and water resources.  To break this spiral, the need is to empower local people, particularly poor women, to organize collective and sustainable community change.

To mobilize communities for collective change, Future Generations India works in partnership with three local non-government organizations by providing local and professional-level training and technical assistance. Currently, Future Generations India partners with Sohan Singh and Ursila Singh of World Vision, with SBMA and with CHIRAG .

.For more details on Uttaranchal, please click here: <Uttaranchal>.