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Tarayana ISSUE: Sustainable Development BIG IDEA: By helping disadvantaged and vulnerable communities help themselves and creating awareness of how important their role and their way of living within the community, we help preserve and promote precious traditions, values, and culture in every aspect food, dress, local festival, etc…………
Using the Four Noble Truths as a Model to Address the Issue: • SUFFERING: Rural to Urban Migration • CAUSES OF SUFFERING: Often rural villages are not aware of their role and worth, there is growing lack of respect for the traditional way of living, mis-representation of town and city life in media, they don’t know the difference between need and want, lack of proper facilities (market, cooperatives, banks, hospitals, schools), new roads, media/television. • CESSATION OF SUFFERING/GOALS/OBJECTIVE: To support villages and rural communities in such a way that the youth don’t feel the need to migrate. Drawing attention to the fact that village life can be fulfilling and interesting. Provision of facilities. • PATH: Providing relevant education and facilities not simply transplanting urban education and facilities, instead creating unique models of education, cooperatives, self help groups and promoting ecotourism.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: ??????????? • Why money is not equal to wealth? • What will happen if all the rural communities migrate to urban areas? • What will happen if all farmers give up farming? • How will electricity change our lives? • How do roads change the community? • Does sending your children to school affect the family and community? Is it always a positive? • What systems control our lives (environmental, family, government, corporate)?
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