Nishtha Rural Health, Education And Environment Centre

24/09/2026

Nishtha village tailoring centre in Jhul village has been running for nearly 5 months. Shivani is developing well as a teacher with the help of our master tailor Maya Devi who visits every week. She thinks it will take 9 months training for the women to be able to proficiently design and stitch the traditional salwar kameej for their families and friends. They are looking forward to making a little pocket money from their work.

11/09/2026

Many thanks to the DIFF team, Abhishek and Palaki who presented two short films to our group of students at Nishtha last Sunday. They led an informative discussion about “The Road”, an entrancing feature film set in the Kumaon hills and Shen-mo, a documentary about snow leopard conservation in the dramatic landscape of Kibber in Spiti. Who knows, they may have ignited a spark of passion for film making in some of our students!

08/09/2026

08/09/2026

Lady fingers and long beans are growing profusely on the farm during this monsoon season. Sunil and Salochana make them into delicious pakoras, a tasty afternoon snack that the children love!

01/09/2026

Payal and Manvi carried out their first solo Wenlido workshops this month, training a total of 31 girls from the outlying villages. Working Deepa and Ravindra’s supervision they gained confidence in engaging with adolescent girls of mixed ages, helping them to feel comfortable and heard so they participate more openly

26/08/2026

Leo Maislinger, our latest Austrian Civil Service volunteer has now completed his year and our team are sad to let him go because he fitted in so well and has been so helpful. In his final report he said: “The ten months of alternative civilian service abroad which I spent working with Nishtha, allowed me to become a lot more independent, both personally and at work. I think that I have become more open and understanding of people with different life situations and cultures and have learned how intercultural cooperation can work best.” Thank you, Leo!

18/08/2026

12/08/2026

Again, this year Rahul, who is a very experienced trainer from Pune, came to Nishtha to work with Vijay to make our three workshops for Adolescent village boys a great success. It is not easy to focus and make an imact oh a group of young boys but feedback such as this makes it worthwhile “These are things that we have never been taught in school, and no one else—whether teachers, parents, or friends—is ready to talk to us about them. We realized that many of us blindly follow myths, superstitions, and magical thinking instead of using critical thinking, and this is one of the biggest barriers to our personal growth and development.”

05/08/2026

We are delighted to have completed four, two-day workshops for adolescent girls during the school holidays this month. The whole team pitched in to make this program a big success, enabling 61 girls to become more knowledgeable and self-assured. The girls said how they will go home and tell their mothers, who were reluctant to let them attend the workshop, how useful and fun it has been and how grateful they are to Ravindra, Vijay and our Doctors.

01/08/2026

It was very helpful to have Anik, our latest intern from Lovely University for a few days helping out with our school and childrens programs and assisting Leo with repairs to our trampoline and basket ball nets at a time when our team were busy with holding workshops.