STH activities in Jan2023: Awareness programs with students from the USA on 03 & 21Jan2023

One of the main roles of STH is to raise awareness about the landslide and environmental issues of this region and we do this thru the year, and year after year at various levels, starting with the grassroots in remote villages to talking at the national level.

We did this again this year with students from Framingham State University and then Colby College on the 03 & 21Jan2023 at Anu and Rajiv's place in Deolo, Kalimpong.

Praful Rao
Kalimpong district
Darjeeling - Sikkim Himalaya
9475033744
savethehills@gmail.com

STH activities in September 2022 : Awareness Workshops

 

Raising awareness about landslide hazards, disaster risk and environmental issues remains
one of the primary roles of STH

Praful Rao
Kalimpong district
Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya

SaveTheHills (STH) activities in 2021 : Raising awareness about Hazards and the Environment by organizing and participating in Webinars, in person Seminars and a Training Program

 One of the main objectives of STH has always been to raise awareness among the general public and also among government officials and others about the hazards and environmental issues of our region and over the years STH has organized and participated in hundreds of workshops, training programs and seminars - all of which are documented in this blog.
In 2021 also we followed this routine except that because of COVID -19 most of our programs had to be online webinars.

Webinars and a Training Program with National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM)

 

Webinars with Kalimpong Science Centre

In person Seminar on 'Disasters & Women' and webinar (with DHI)

Besides this STH, being a part of the Darjeeling Himalaya Initiative (DHI) was involved in the many activities involved in hosting SMDS X which is the annual flagship event of the Integrated Mountain Initiative (IMI)

Praful Rao
SaveTheHills
Kalimpong district
Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya

SaveTheHills activity Dec2018-Jan2019

Praful Rao
Kalimpong district,
Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya

Notice: STH blog resumes in Feb2019

It is with regret that I wish to announce that we were unable to continue the SaveTheHills (STH) blog after April 2018, having done so for almost 10years since STH was established in Sep2007.
The reason:-

• In our experience, STH has found that other social media platforms are today more efficient and 'user friendly' to disburse warnings and information.
• While blogging may have once been a wonderful tool, today STH operates a WhatsApp (WA) group called 'Hazard Alerts' (HA) which is a much more effective way of disbursing information and warnings.
• WA along with other platforms like FaceBook reaches out to wider audiences and very quickly while the blog maybe restricted to the more serious reader and for preserving data and historical facts.
  
  However, since all of STH history and some useful data is published in the blog, STH will again start re-publishing the blog while apologizing for the break.
  
  Having completed updating rainfall records from April2018 toJan 2019 we will now record significant events which were undertaken by us and our partners in 2018 - much of which was about raising awareness on DRR and environmental issues of the region
  
  
  Praful Rao,
  Kalimpong district,
  Darjeeling - Sikkim Himalaya

STH activities : With students of Colby College (USA) -25Jan2018

Refer this post on the STH blog
Raising awareness about the environmental issues facing the Himalayas and also the severe landslide hazard problem of the Darjeeling-Sikkim region is one of the main roles of STH.
As such it was wonderful to talk to 19 students of Colby College (USA) once again in 2018. We hope that this will be an annual event for both STH and Colby.

Praful Rao
Kalimpong district,
Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya

STH activities (28Mar2014) : Talk on ' Major Environmental Challenges in the Himalayas' in NSS Orientation program at Kalimpong

Praful Rao,
Kalimpong,
Dist Darjeeling