This is India’s first community-run Instagram account. Here’s how it is helping rural Kumaoni women seek alternative livelihood – FilmyVoice

Adjusting her binocular for a greater view of the snow capped peaks round, Pushpa saved strolling in conventional salwar kameez and sports activities footwear. What makes her totally different from different girls within the little Kumoani village is her keenness to hike and make an alternate livelihood. Identical to her, there are quite a lot of girls, who don’t thoughts cooking meals and doing family chores however has an urge to do one thing else. Whereas some love clicking pictures, some girls are mountain climbing guides.

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And this exploration to search out an alternate livelihood for the agricultural girls of the Himalayas has been powered by Voices Of Munsiari, India’s first community-run Instagram account.
The epicentre of this spirit is Sarmoli, a
picturesque mountain village within the Munsiyari district of Uttarakhand.

Shivya Nath, the famend journey blogger in India, who runs the-shooting-star.com, has teamed up with Malika Virdi, an avid mountaineer who has arrange Sarmoli village homestays.

What do they do?

Sarmoli organizes their annual summer season ritual in April each spring. The week-long
Himal Kalasutra pageant the place the locals of Sarmoli come collectively to run a marathon with an altitude acquire of 8000 toes over 20km and watch birds. Final yr, every week of meditative yoga and an introductory digital workshop by Wikipedia was additionally organized.

With the assistance of Shivya and Malika, the villagers have began an
Instagram profile to share with the world their tales. Initially, it was thought that the curiosity in sharing their tales might die down quickly. Quite the opposite, their curiosity saved surging and a few villagers grew to become too tech savvy inside quick time frame.

What now?

Shivya and Malika at the moment are aiming to crowdsource smartphones with good high quality cameras, so extra locals can get on board the channel.

“Following a pictures workshop within the village this April, we hope to do a
photograph/Instagram exhibition, showcasing the work of budding native photographers to doubtlessly create an alternate revenue stream to fund a brand new outside schooling programme,” Shivya informed Enterprise Insider.

“For those who, or anybody is a
smartphone photographer who’d prefer to spend every week on this beautiful a part of the mountains, sharing their artwork and abilities with some budding native photographers, let me know too,” added Shivya.