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What is SEED?

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Every action is a product of the faculty of thought in the human mind. SEED, Society for Environmental Education and Rural Development, a non-profit, community-based organization, was formed in the year 1992 at the level of thought. However, the organization formally brought together its activities under the umbrella of SEED only on June 5, 1993. What is interesting is that SEED had been intensely involved with the society since the year 1990; the thought of giving a name to its activities was secondary and thus came much later. As the name conveys, SEED is a grass root organization which has been working closely wih the rural community for the last eighteen years. The organization has taken up no projects in its entire tenure; instead it started with one problem of the rural community which led it to others. The picture that has evolved slowly over time is that of a whole, and not that of a fragmented, incomplete view of the society. Today, after a time span of eighteen years, as the ...
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Integrated Education

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The thought with which the Society for Environmental Education and Rural Development (SEED) started its Integrated Education Programme was that the community, the student and the teacher constitute a larger whole, the society. Thus we believe that each of these parts should contribute to the others. The main heads under which the work of SEED, with respect to education, can be categorized are: BALWADI Women in Uttarakhand form the backbone of their state economy, as the men migrate to the nearby cities or towns for earning a living and the women stay back to work on the fields. Now, what was happening is that when the mother were out in the fields, she had to keep her children back at home; and if she were to be with her kids, there was no one to work on the fields Thus in neither way could she work freely. Again, if she left for her work, keeping her children in charge of her neighbours, either they would defecate in their courtyard, or quarrel with their kids and at times even cause...
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Rural Sanitation

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RURAL SANITATION Society for Environmental Education and Rural Development, SEED began its environmental education programmes in 1993 with the help of Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi, Almora. We were initially funded by the Education Department of the Indian Government (Ministry of Human Resource Development) and later by Rajeshwar Sushila Dayal Charitable Trust, New Delhi. This was begun with the aim to educate the rural children and women, promote forestation, water conservation, the construction of nurseries, as also to create awareness in the minds of the rural masses regarding sanitation. All these programmes were carried out through the Mahila Mangal Dals of various villages. These little successes only added to their confidence. They then pointed out the major issues bothering them in the personal as well as the village level. They gave primary importance to education, health, water and electricity, and fought very strongly for it. They’ve collectively fought against all social evils and...
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Environmental Conservation

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The various programmes undertaken by the Society for Environmental Education and Rural Development (SEED) under the broader head of Environmental Conservation are: PLANTATION Forests are the base of rural life, the women ‘sangathans’ of Suraikhet region have made us fully realize the statement. Making use of the power of their ‘sangathan’, these women did not only save the forests, but also bridged the gap between the forest and the rural communities. In Bajina, Kande, Shilang, Bajan, Baheda, Nauri, Matela, Ghughuti, Minar, Kamrad, Badi-Banoli, Sanade, Dhunga, Bitholi, Kauda, and other more than two dozen villages, the Mahila Mangal Dals have afforested the community land of their respective villages. The main trees which were planted by the women were Mango, Sheesham, Siver Oak, and amla along with Oak, Buransh, Jamun, Reetha, Uteesh, Bheemal, Timal, Kachnar and other broad-leaved trees of the fodder species. For this purpose, women have been planting trees since the last four-five ye...
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Women's Empowerment

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Women's Empowerment has been the center around which all programmes of the Society for Environmental Education and Rural Development (SEED) have revolved. We believe that if a society has to change, only women can bring about that change. The various activities are: MAHILA MANGAL DALS In the Dwarahat and Bhikyasain regions of Almora district, a unique programme on women’s empowerment has been taking shape for the last one and a half decades. An organization dedicated to women’s development, SEED, has been constantly working towards uniting women into Mahila Mangal Dals. Started originally as an experiment in the form of children’s education and environmental awareness programmes, the scheme has found a hold in more than 80 villages of the Riskon and Ramganga valleys. Women associated with these welfare groups have united themselves at a regional level into a Mahila Ekta Parishad, Suraikhet, displaying unbeatable leadership qualities. Today, heartening results of the efforts are vis...
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