Cosmoniketan

Vijayapura, also known as Bijapur, is a city in Deccan Plateau, in India.
We are involved in management of school, known as Cosmoniketan.
Cosmoniketan, meaning “a place to learn the theory of the universe.”

The school project was started about 30 years ago, aiming to solve the drinking water problem in farmer dominated Villages in Bijapur.

Many villages did not have any potable drnking water sources those days, so it was women and children who had to go fetch the water from well wherever water is available.

Child labor was the one of the serious problem in village, they had no chance of going to school, and it was common to help their parent’s works.

We had to convince the parents to have insight for children’s education.
Making a single well in a Village, was huge difference. People were able to get water easily, and children didn’t had to go and fetch water from far to fetch the water, under the burning hit of sun.

by reducing the time for labor, children could spend more time on their education. Those times they spent fetching the water, was turned to school time.

By having a well, villagers became more independent and corporative. We were grate full for the changes done by humble donors and JAFS we could able to make, and continued to make wells for villages in needs.