Suryamani Bhagat, Forest Activist
‘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 live
s and preserve her tribal culture with
her community. 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 .
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