MMES is a community-based society for Conservation and Ecotourism. When Covid-19 arrived, they started a campaign to help the needy people in the fringe villages of Manas National Park. Using their own funds and contributions from the Ketto platform, the Bhutan India Friendship Association and WWF they were able to provide relief parcels to 2,140 households in 24 villages.
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00:08 The Manas Mawjugandri Eco Tourism Society
00:11 is a community-based society for conservation and ecotourism.
00:15 The main objective of the initiative
00:17 was to revive the depleted manas with a huge community
00:20 participation in conservation and to make manas free
00:23 from endangered tech of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
00:27 Today, we can proudly say that we have successfully
00:30 achieved this goal.
00:32 When the nationwide lockdown started in India,
00:35 the poor prince villagers of Manas National Park
00:38 compelled to give up their respective jobs
00:40 of their daily life.
00:43 The free ration supplied by the government
00:45 also didn't reach to their families.
00:48 Many innocent people had to go fasting.
00:51 But we do not have enough money to help them
00:54 because the little money we make from our ecotourism activities
01:00 is used for conservation purposes
01:02 and to help the ex-purchase families.
01:05 Therefore, we started a campaign to raise some funds
01:09 at social media like Facebook, Kato, WhatsApp.
01:13 And we had a very good response from various corners
01:17 of the country.
01:18 In this way, we could help 2,140 households in 24 villages.
01:24 First, we gave away the ration materials
01:27 to every needy families.
01:29 Later, when government PDS ration supply reached,
01:33 we had to take care of families who do not
01:36 possess the ration cards.
01:37 We provided jobs to 12 women in the area
01:42 who had to come back home, leaving their job at the weaving
01:45 center at other districts.
01:48 (swoosh)
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