child reporters

We went to a neighboring village of Koraput . We saw the village. It looked more or less like my village . We were happy . We went to the houses , talked to people and we also went to the school. We started reporting . The children in the school were looking at us . We said that we were child reporters . We also talked to the teacher .
Surendra Khora
StdV
Murkar

Some of the residents of my village have steel plates to have their food . But some others take their food in plates made of stiched Siali leaves.
Manoj Kumar Sahu,Std.V, Banuaguda.

I am Manju Gemel from Maliput in Pottangi block.I read in stdVI. All my friends too introduced themselves and thus we all started speaking to each other . It was a nice experience to talk to strangers(who became my best friends later) . I had so much to learn from them . They were speaking about their school, village , friends , parents , neighbours and lot more. I too told them many things about my village, I like the most.

We joined hands to begin our journey towards a new world. We came from different villages , belong to different caste, religion and financial status . But we had no such feelings and promised to move forward like the lamp raising its flame upward.It was the begining of a new hope -we too could do it.

And we were born.

Many girls of our village are facing numerous problems since they are being married off at a young age.
Manu Jani, Std.V. Padabagri.

Children of Kuntesh,Biriguda and Chichiraguda have to walk long distance from their villages to reach the school located in my village.
Kainta Subudhi, Std.VI, Murkar.

A single inner response or a little growth of consciousness will do what thousand mental questions and answers could not do.
The Mother.

There has to emerge some consciousness before there can be ignorance, may be partial or semi consciousness.
The Mother

The residents of Paraja Street of our village make a sweet item from mangoes and savour it. I like its taste.
Rosalin Sahu,Std.VI,Banuaguda.

There is a sepherd in our village. He takes all the cattle for grazing. The villagers take care of his food.
Arabinda Banka, Std.VI, Gangarajpur.

Our school has a computer. We learn many interesting things from it.I like it very much.
Mohini Behera,Std.V, Maliput.

FAITH is like a door opening upon an eternal truth , which can see it , almost touch it.
From the writings of The Mother.

Getting drinking water in our village is a big problem in our village. There is a small river flowing near our village. But water is not available in the summer season . The village needs some more tube wells, as the tube wells are far from the houses and the water fvrom the tube well in the school is not good.
Anupama Nayak,Sunki,Koraput, District, Orissa, India

Hi!
We are the child reporters from Koraput in the state of Orissa in INDIA. We are hundreds of children who go to the school in our villages . Our region is perhaps the most beautiful place in the world . We have green mountains , waterfilled rivers, vibrant culture and tradition . Our region is inhabitated by a huge numbers of people from various tribal community . Despite of the rich natural and cultural heritage, we have many problems which needs to be addressed. inaccessibility is one of the main problems leading to many other problems like lack of education , health and other facilities in our region . We are living in areas where electricity is a distant dream for many people . A good house with good food and education , is not at reach for many of our friends . But things are changing for a betterone day by day . We are the fortunate ones in our district who could be brought into the beauty of education . More importantly we have also started acknowledging our problems and strengths in the most appropriate manner. Thanks to UNICEF, the district administration and Koraput Farmers' Association who had started the process of making us as Child Reporters since last year . We also have friends in Dhenkanal , another district in Orissa . We all observe our environment, our village , our day to day situations , trees, animals, fellow beings , their problems, solutions , our education , school , festivals , sanitation and hygene and a lot more while passing the day and while doing our work as we were doing before . In the evening We note down our observation in a diary . Then our writings get published in a magazine of our own ANKURODGAM from Koraput and KALIKA from Dhenkanal . We have interviewed many people who had visited our villages . Two girls amongst us had the opporunity to attend the first ever International Children's Conference at Beiging last October . We want to talk and communicate share our thoughts with the children and everyone world over on our observations and learn from theirs . It will be a fun and also provide us a forum to know each other . We could build a new world for us and the future , a better one to live with Harmony.May we begin the journey? Let's Get... Set... Go.