Who: Wood Gatherers in Kandukur
Where: Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh.
Vamsi and his family are happier that they got a new backload tricycle to peddle for a newer life and to make a living. They belong to one of the poorest of the marginal tribal people, the Yenadi.
Yenadis were food gatherers and nomadic, now live in small pieces of lands as colonies assigned to them. Some live in houses built with government grants, while many in small huts with palm leaves. They make a living by firewood collection or by menial jobs available rarely in the backyard of the towns. The area they live is draught affected due to failing monsoon in a row of 5 years. Hence agricultural activity is almost nil and labour opportunities scanty.
Your standing in the gap can make their life different!
Why: Poor, vulnerable, illiterate, living away from the mainstream, on the edge. Children are malnourished. Drinking water is scarce. Livelihood for them is difficult.
What: That they will have rains, labor, livelihood, and access to education and the Goodnews. That their children will be educated, and they will come up in life and have it abundantly!
When: In your family and at your gatherings.
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