Shortly after her marriage in 1998 to a contractor in Jharkhand’s forest-rich Jamshedpur, Jamuna Tudu realised the futility of going miles to fetch dry leaves and firewood. Memories of her parents planting saplings in their own land in Rairangpur in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district would often travel back in her vacuous despair at the depleting forest cover.
Jamuna had her task cut out: she would gather women like her in her Maturkham village, under Chakulia block of Jamshedpur, and protect the trees. Only four women stepped forward who along with her would “patrol” the forest and raise alarm if trees were chopped on the sly.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة October 25, 2020 من The Morning Standard.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة October 25, 2020 من The Morning Standard.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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