VANAM
Puts equal footing on both Environment and Growth
MISSION- To become self sufficient societies and social communities which can influence local economies and build a sustainable future to ensure that we bequeath to the future generations a healthy planet
Why Vanam?
Nature is the last resort humans look for when it comes to receiving, because only nature will provide without asking for anything in return. But as Gandhi said that “there is enough in the lap of mother nature for every human’s need but not enough for an individual’s greed”. As a matter of fact the dependency on nature is ever increasing exponentially and the results are visible with declining productivity of agricultural produce vis-à-vis the rise in the number of farmers who would like to give up farming and look for other income generating opportunities.
The enormous pressure on the natural resources has upset the balance between man and nature beyond a sustainable level. As a result, we now see the local ecological degeneration innumerably in the villages in India. The consequence of this imbalance is the exponential exploitation of the natural resources that has marked the scarcity and widespread abuse of natural resources. The ground water level dropping deeper, forests diminishing; natural raw materials once abundant and accessible are vanishing. Nature’s gifts are sold in the markets at a price unaffordable for the common citizens. As resources deplete, life gradually becomes challenging, and more inhuman. Growing population and pollution, scarcity of resources and food, salinity in water and desertification all push the humans deeper into compromising with their food habits. The humans are the first and worst victims of this disaster and imbalance in the ecology, precisely because they live close to nature and they depend on it for their survival.