CLASS V 20 WHOSE FOREST Education not only

CLASS. V 20. WHOSE FOREST?

Education not only helps you to create your own employment, it can also help millions of people to begin to understand their environment and what we need to do to live peacefully with nature. ’

Suryamani Bhagat is an activist with ‘Save the forests of Jharkhand movement’; she is the founder of ‘Torang’ a tribal rights and cultural center in Kotari Village, Ranchi district in Jharkhand. Suryamani works to save the forest where she lives and preserve her tribal culture with her community.

Jharkhand, formerly part of Bihar, became the 28 th state of the Indian federation on November 15, 2000.

When Suryamani was young, her father lost his job and Suryamani had to drop out of school – during this difficult time her family did not have enough to eat but they found a friend in a kind, shop-keeper in her village that helped them with food without expecting anything in return.

When Suryamani went back to school, she realized that she loved to learn about the forests and also remembering the kind man in her community – decided to work to preserve the forests and their community’s culture. Suryamani has a BA in Sanskrit and she is 26 years old.

Suryamani takes children for nature walks so that they can learn how to save trees. She works to save the forest where she lives and preserve her tribal culture with her community.

Suryamani is a ‘Girl Star’. ‘Girl stars’ is a project which tells extra ordinary tales of ordinary girls, who have changed their lives by going to school.

The Girls Stars pose happily with ministers and MPs. In the centre is Dr. A. Ramadoss (in white), Minister of Health, and to his right Mr. Oscar Fernandes, and Dr. Prema Cariappa, Convenor of the Forum (in orange saree)

The beautiful northeastern state of India, Mizoram, slices its borders with Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Assam and Manipur. The word Mizo means highlander and Mizoram means “the land of mizos” Capital: Aizwal Districts: 30 Language: Mizo, English and Hindi

Hilly path

TRIBAL DANCE

JHOOM FARMING

CHERAW DANCE

WE SHOULD PROTECT FOREST • Learning from forests is like learning from books. • From forests we get , 1. Wood for furniture, fuel, 2. Medicinal plants, 3. Different types of trees etc. • Forests protect animals and birds. • Forests protect soil erosion. • Forests reduce air pollution. • Forests help flood control. • Forests help to get rain fall

EVALUATIO Name the following: N 1. State of Suryamani: 2. Forest dwellers: 3. Centre opened by Suryamani to educate children: 4. Capital of mizoram: 5. Suryamani’s parrot:

Look at the map and write What all is shown in the map? You have read Sikhya’s letter. Look for Orissa in the map. Is there a sea close to Orissa? How did you find out? Which are the states which have the sea on one side? Where is Suryamani’s state Jharkhand on the map? Where are forests on the map? How will you find these? How can you find out which states have very thick forests and which have less thick forests? For someone in Madhya Pradesh, in which direction would the country’s thickest forests be? Name those states

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