Residents of a village in Haryana’s Nuh district are looking to an unusual source to generate employment — wall art. Once dull and dreary, the walls of Kherla village now sport vibrant colours and tell stories of people who reside in the area. While some walls are decorated with stars in bright colours, others depict a girl on a swing, meant to “encourage girls to fly towards their dreams”, or birds flying out of cages — a sketch intending to motivate people to break boundaries.
The project is the brainchild of Gurgaon-based NGO Donate an Hour (DoaR), which focuses on education. “We had been called to the village by officials to improve the standard of education. When we went there, we realised that people in the village were impoverished, not necessarily because of lack of education but because of lack of opportunities,” Meenakshi Singh, founder of DoAR, said.
Such efforts can change the life in remote villages. This example can easily be replicated elsewhere. Read more of this in a report by Sakshi Dayal published in The Indian Express....
