NGOs and Tribes

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NGOs and Tribes

• Who needs whom?

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Problem of defining an NGO

• NGO as an empthic outsider
• NGO as a professional services provider
• NGO as a community organiser
• NGO as a market player

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Dilemmas of an NGO . Do we help in mainstream?
Or advocate isolationism?

• Do we expose, aware or will it be exhibitionism?
• Tribals- are they innocent? Or ignorant?
• Indigenous people? Or indigeneousness as a
  cultural, social attribute untouched by some
  modern processes?
• Is indigeneity a sustainable phenomenon or is it
  just a passing thing in history of any mankind
  and race?

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What do tribals want?

• Story of modern transport and Khonds
• Story of modern agriculture and Khonds
• Story of health care and Khonds
• Modernity's material benefits- good or bad?
• Natural way of living- boon or bane?
• Tribals , NGOs and Naxals- who does what?

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My journey from 1987
till 2005. I thought they needed me, that's why
I came to Orissa and their society. I quit when
I realised that we need them hopelessly than the
reverse
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