Into its 17th Edition, Gramya Manthan is a 10-day transformative leadership development program - designed to expose Indian youth to the diverse knowledge system of rural India while focusing on inner transformation, systemic awareness, and community development.
For over a decade, one of the longest-running rural immersion programs in the country, Gramya Manthan, envisions self and - in the long term - systemic and structural development through equal and participative dialogue between urban and rural India.
The 10-day-long program is designed to intertwine modalities to serve three major components - self-introspection, rigorous immersion, and social-emotional learning. While these threads are pulled at different times in the course of the ten days - each thread remains connected to the other and held firmly.
In the past decade, a few hundred young individuals from all across the country participated in this journey of knowing oneself and the world. More than half of these individuals are currently committed to social change and transformation in diverse fields - many of them are social entrepreneurs, leaders, and committed professionals.
If you wish to understand the nuances of - society, development, knowledge systems, caste, and gender dynamics, leadership, social change - without separating them from ‘self’ -but rather in relation to self - then this journey is for you.
In its 17th Edition, Gramya Manthan takes the immersion to the last villages of India, in Kutch. Kutch inhabits one of the most unique & fragile ecosystems in the world - through its villages as a portal we shall dive into traditional crafts, local governance, and socio-economic-political systems. The journey will take us to some of the most groundbreaking grassroots organizations like Kutch Mahila vIkas Sangathan, Khamir, Gram Swaraj Sangh working in the fields of education, water conservation, political governance, gender, and cultural ecology.
Program Details
Dates
The 17th edition of Gramya Manthan shall happen from 27th December- 5th January, 2024
Location & Weather
Temperatures vary in a wide spectrum during day and night between 28 to 9 degrees Celsius.
The upcoming edition will take place in Bhuj, Kutch, Gujrat
Travel & Accommodation
• Food, stay, and all other mandatory requirements during the program will be taken care of.
• Stay will be basic with shared accommodation and bathroom facilities
• Participants will have to reach Bhuj by Day 0 night or early morning on Day 1.
Financial Contribution
Putting together all the different parts of this whole program incurs significant financial cost, which includes costs of Facilitation, Program Design, Food, Accommodation, Transport, Material and logistics, Mentoring, etc.
The cost per participant for 30 participants is 42,000 INR. Thanks to a generous donor , we have been able to subsidise it to Rs 30,000 per participant.
We hope that you are able to cover the full cost of the program. However, we understand that for some participants, this amount might be difficult, so we have a few options of partial financial assistance available for those who truly need it.
The range of contribution along with some partial financial assistance slots is Rs 15,000 to Rs 30,000 to accommodate the varied paying capacity of our participants. The details of the same are available in the application form.
To make it accessible for participants from difficult socio-economic backgrounds, we are delighted to announce that we received applications for and given five full scholarship slots. (No scholarships available anymore)
An Invitation: For those who have the means, please consider stretching your budget a bit more so that we can offer more financial assistance to those coming from challenging and marginalised backgrounds. Your generosity will go a long way to help us accommodate someone who has many structural obstacles to break to access alternative educational programs like this one.
Know more about the contribution model here.
Eligibility
Program is open to both Indian and International applicants.
Participants in the age group of 18-30 years will be preferred.
Applicants below or beyond these age limits will be duly considered on case-to-case basis.
We have kept 5 slots reserved for people from ethnic, sexual, and cultural minorities. We strongly encourage Dalits, Adivasis, Bahujans, LGBTQ and people from other such structurally marginalised groups to apply.
Note: The maximum number of participants that we can host is 30. Applications will close once we reach this count.
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