In 2014, was born « Epices’centre », through the initiative of 5 students of Economical and social Development studies Institute of Paris (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbone).
This project is based on the understanding that the success of any development project depends on the involvement and participation of its beneficiaries. The primary mission of ‘ Epices’centre’ is to gather tools which help to better the active democracy, participation of citizens and sharing them with other social workers interested in such methodology.
Our projected started with V.C.D.M, a grassroot movement, in India, their unique methodology was a success story. So, we decided visit them in india to get introduced to their work. After returning back to France, we decided to share our experience in a documentary, « Mukti, journery of a consciousness ». It was screened in various events and festivals like Grand Bivouac Festival (Albertville), Week-End Etudiants et Developpement (Paris). Few private screenings were organised too.
Trailer
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Ours sponsors were : Etudiants et Développement, le Fond de solidarité et de développementd’initiatives étudiantes, par la région Val de Marne ainsi que la Ville de Châtenay-Malabry.
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Technical support
V.C.D.M is working for decades in rural areas, their actions have shown success and concrete results in rural areas. But somehow, this action is ignored by urban populus. V.C.D.M wants to enlarge it's sphere of influence and message, transcending the city-village borders, to create an unified community.
First step towards this idea, be visible and accessible in the public space.
We helped V.C.D.M for the creation of logo. The logo has been realized by Cassandre Raimond, a student of Design School in Nantes.
Also, we put V.C.D.M in contact with Lena Rivière and Baptiste Saint-Roche, two cameraman-woman and editors. They are producing a communication teaser for us, it will be released shortly. If you want to know more about their projects see also : https://www.association-vision-nomade.com/le-projet.
Fundraising : to search for sponsors, donation campaing
We believe in diversification of economic sources for the funding of NGO, movement. It will help our partners experience more freedom and feel confident running their projects. So, we explore different avenues, private and public, for fund raising.
We engage with available doners and create new contacts in Europe and India, so that V.C.D.M work is acknowledged and help could be sought.
In parallel, we are initiating a donation campaign to support the specific projects, we launch a few days ago a donation campaign for the support house for rural students in Pabal.
You will be redirected on a secure site for the payment : https://www.helloasso.com/
Today, we are launching our first donation campaign to help the support house for rural students in Pabal .
Pabal’s house and his vegetables garden
For the last few months, Pabal project is facing financial challenges so they asked for our help. This project makes a lot of sense for us. To empower a girl is to empower her family and her village too.
Preparation of the diner with the garden yields
Today Pabal’s house is hosting 16 girls from 6 years old to 18 years old. all of them come from the challenged backgrounds making it imposible for them to go to school, study, have multi directional.
Thai and Gare, the caretakers of Pabal house
Pabal centre the head office of vcda, having one acre of land, is situated 50 km from Pune. A part hosts agricultural experiments, the other is a playground for girls !
Tai and Kaluram Ghare, the two care takers at Pabal are working for 25 years for emancipation of the rural girls. From 90', Pabal support house has participated in educating 200 girls. All these girls come from socio-economically challenged environments where it would have been impossible for them to have education. Because of the efforts of animators they not only get the opportunity of formal education but also holistic development.
Pabal Family
Girls are going to school everyday. Tai and Kaluram are looking after the girls, their studies. They provide a safe, stable and loving environment to the girls.
Girls are introduced to several activities like yoga, theater, dance, music,farming, playground etc. All these opportunities are new spaces given to them to express themselves, learn, explore their personalities, develop communication skills, and shape their confidence.
Introduction to classical instruments with Karim
« An aware citizen is an active citizen », V.C.D.M is preparing the tomorrow's citizen by creating space for discussions about several topics related to, education, agriculture, water management, person-community-development, traditional knowledge, gender issues etc.
