"The future of India lies in its villages" - Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi's excursions through rural India's villages instilled in him a deep love for the land and respect for the people who struggled with it. He believed that India's cities would be unable to accommodate the growing population in a respectable manner, which has proved to be a matter of fact. Village life was romanticized by him as self-sufficient, simple, free, nonviolent, and honest. Gandhi believed that the qualities of the village and rural life much outweighed those of city life, but he also realized that the playing field needed to be even, with both landscapes offering chances for personal growth and lifelong learning.
Hundreds of Indians emigrate each year in search of a better education, more lucrative employment, a better lifestyle, or to marry abroad. As we grow closer to our goals, our dreams become reality, propelling us into the orbit of success. During this process, we leave behind anything we planned to obtain from India. Nonetheless, whether consciously or unconsciously, we leave behind our greatest treasures—our families, culture, and community—a sense of belonging. Following the same sentiment evoked by M.K. Gandhi’s words, we at Ladli Foundation USA aim to introduce "My Village, My Pilgrimage", a project aimed at the return of the Indian Diaspora to the villages as a definite, voluntary recognition of the importance of village development and how the Indian diasporic youth can actively participate in the formation of their ideal village.
The program aims to address the concerns of Indian parents who live overseas and are concerned that their children may lose contact with their ancestral roots and grow up in a culturally isolated environment. We hope that by prompting diasporic youth to reflect on their community's history, customs, values, and challenges, we will be able to connect them to themselves and their community on a deeper level. This initiative will also allow diasporic youth to become more involved in current issues in their home country, and this effort addresses the need to socialize and reintegrate NRIs in rural and urban India.
Hundreds of Indians emigrate each year in search of a better education, more lucrative employment, a better lifestyle, or to marry abroad. As we grow closer to our goals, our dreams become reality, propelling us into the orbit of success. During this process, we leave behind anything we planned to obtain from India. Nonetheless, whether consciously or unconsciously, we leave behind our greatest treasures—our families, culture, and community—a sense of belonging. Following the same sentiment evoked by M.K. Gandhi’s words, we at Ladli Foundation USA aim to introduce "My Village, My Pilgrimage", a project aimed at the return of the Indian Diaspora to the villages as a definite, voluntary recognition of the importance of village development and how the Indian diasporic youth can actively participate in the formation of their ideal village.
The program aims to address the concerns of Indian parents who live overseas and are concerned that their children may lose contact with their ancestral roots and grow up in a culturally isolated environment. We hope that by prompting diasporic youth to reflect on their community's history, customs, values, and challenges, we will be able to connect them to themselves and their community on a deeper level. This initiative will also allow diasporic youth to become more involved in current issues in their home country, and this effort addresses the need to socialize and reintegrate NRIs in rural and urban India.
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Discover Indian Heritage:
India's religious, linguistic, and cultural diversity is unparalleled. It boasts lovely green crops that add to the beauty of our landscape. It also features a diverse range of flowers, plants, and animals, as well as numerous rivers flowing through healthy terrain. India is adorned with the Himalayas, which act as a magnificent crown. India has long been regarded as one of the world's most technologically advanced nations. India's people are friendly and hospitable. It is home to great people like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhagat Singh, and others, and contains many historical landmarks. The Indian Diasporic youth will be awestruck after visiting India.
Learn about Indian culture and civilization:
Indian culture is the heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artefacts, and technologies that originated in or are associated with the ethnically and linguistically diverse Indian subcontinent. The term also applies beyond India to countries and cultures whose histories are strongly connected to India by immigration, colonization, or influence, particularly in South Asia and Southeast Asia. India's languages, religions, dance, music, architecture, food, and customs differ from place to place within the country.
Create a mosaic of memories in the Desi Backdrop:
Many kids don't know about their parents' young lives. Kids should experience how their parents live their lives, like eating mangoes or many fruits by throwing stones on trees and eating them, taking a bath with friends in the river, going on a trek with friends on big mountains, riding on cows and oxen, going fishing, going for long drives in an agricultural area, and many other beautiful things.
Young people should prefer Kahwah over coffee, adore the elegance of Makki Di Roti and Sarson Da Saag, crave Dhokla, and fall in love with Dosa and Idli sambar. We want them to do activities like walking through wheat fields, humming Bollywood hits, early morning Surya Namaskar, and chit-chatting over evening tea. Our purpose is to help you reconnect, rebuild, and reintegrate your identity with your community, your pilgrimage village.
Young people should prefer Kahwah over coffee, adore the elegance of Makki Di Roti and Sarson Da Saag, crave Dhokla, and fall in love with Dosa and Idli sambar. We want them to do activities like walking through wheat fields, humming Bollywood hits, early morning Surya Namaskar, and chit-chatting over evening tea. Our purpose is to help you reconnect, rebuild, and reintegrate your identity with your community, your pilgrimage village.
Initiatives for Community Development:
Working together to generate and accomplish locally owned visions and goals is what community-led development is all about. It is a planning and development approach based on a set of core principles that (at a minimum) involves people who live in that geographic community in setting vision and priorities, putting local voices in the lead, focusing on local strengths rather than problems, collaborating across sectors, being intentional and adaptable, and working to achieve systemic change rather than short-term projects.
(a) Making significant progress and growth in communication, rural health, and rural education; and
(b) transforming rural India's socioeconomic life through a process of necessary cultural transformation.
We want the next generation to return to their birthplace, invest their time, and make a difference in the world. What is the mechanism behind this? Consider it a community service effort. Take a day or two to stroll the streets, meet the people, and investigate any and all problems. Create a list of realistic ideas or concepts that are simple to implement. Plan ahead, prepare, and move forward.
For the folks on the opposite end of a holiday excursion, it may be life-changing. We make a living by receiving, but we make a life by giving. Let us learn to accept the unexpected, find joy in passing, and assist those in need as we travel through our daily lives. Bring the Ganges home and let people quench their thirst without having to walk miles for it; be the reason for the shimmering lights while the girl reads; and let people quench their thirst without having to walk miles for it.
(a) Making significant progress and growth in communication, rural health, and rural education; and
(b) transforming rural India's socioeconomic life through a process of necessary cultural transformation.
We want the next generation to return to their birthplace, invest their time, and make a difference in the world. What is the mechanism behind this? Consider it a community service effort. Take a day or two to stroll the streets, meet the people, and investigate any and all problems. Create a list of realistic ideas or concepts that are simple to implement. Plan ahead, prepare, and move forward.
For the folks on the opposite end of a holiday excursion, it may be life-changing. We make a living by receiving, but we make a life by giving. Let us learn to accept the unexpected, find joy in passing, and assist those in need as we travel through our daily lives. Bring the Ganges home and let people quench their thirst without having to walk miles for it; be the reason for the shimmering lights while the girl reads; and let people quench their thirst without having to walk miles for it.