ABNER MANZAR - Digital Empowerment Foundation

MittalPatelMittal Patel has given identity to 60thousand nomadic tribal people andstill counting.She has started an organization called VSSM. She has been workingon giving an identity to all nomadic tribes like the meer group whereshe has started a school. The physical state of the school is not toogreat as there are thatches in which studies go on. But they dolearn. This school was started just about 2-3 months ago, there isa school that has been going on for 3 years. The aim of these schoolsis to try and build the mentality of the children to go to the mainstreamschool. There aim is to send these children itching the timespan of 6 months and 1 year. The students in the meer group schoolseemed very motivated to learn, there was a lot of participation.There are 40 nomadic tribes in Gujarat, 4 million people are part ofthese tribes. 28 of these tribes are notified criminal tribes by theBritishers which still stays in India. But the other 12 are denotifiedby India. VSSM has given identity to 60 thousand people out of the4 million. They have worked in 9 districts out of the 28 in Gujarat.When asked by when will they be done with all 28, she answeredfirst let us be perfect with these 9 at least.RED RICKSHAW REVOLUTIONA report by 14 year old boy25