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Torpa Rural Development Society for Women is an NGO for education, women's empowerment and livelihood in Torpa and Rania blocks located in the Khunti District of Jharkhand.

26/03/2026

🌱 Sustainable practices for climate.

🌿 At Torpa Rural Development Society for Women [TRDSW], we have been preserving the cultural heritage of the Munda community 🤍

🌾 A revival of traditional seeds and practices began in 2023 and every year, we host an exhibit of living indigenous traditions with live demonstrations of traditional practices from the beginning to a completed piece of artwork 🎨

👀 Through this visual storytelling, we give you only a glimpse of the process, economic and cultural significance of these works of art, made by hand ✋, made by our didis (sisters) 👩 and dadas (brothers) 👨, as we fondly call them here in the state of Jharkhand 🌿

✨ Our joy is unmatched when we celebrate our heritage, by living traditions, everyday 🤍🌱

08/03/2026

Happy Women's Day!
8 March, 2026

🌿 We are surrounded by many a flora and fauna in our Torpa and Rania ecosystem. On 16th February 2026, our village anima...
02/03/2026

🌿 We are surrounded by many a flora and fauna in our Torpa and Rania ecosystem. On 16th February 2026, our village animators and education team collected a piece of nature from their surroundings and contributed to the Tribal Womens Collective 2.0.

✨ Key takeaways:
🌱 These nature's pieces collectively contributed to an ecology lesson for both elders and younger women.

🗣️ An interesting exchange of Mundari names, nutritional aspects and recipes took place across age-groups.

🌳 The need for the knowledge of our biodiversity became evident.

👩‍🌾 60 unique elements collected and explained by 24 village animators.

📷 An exhibition of 40 photographs from in and around the TRDSW campus and field visits by Shveta Sanjay Jadhav.
🌾 Biodiversity in our Ecosystem include:
🌿 Wild edible plants
🌸 Flowers, fruits and seeds
🍃 Dried flowers and leaf powders
🌱 Medicinal herbs
🐟 Freshwater fish and live crabs
🍃 Big leaves like the Rai pedh (Dillenia pentagyna tree) and Khajur Pedh (Wild Palm)

📷 Photography included:
🐦 Birds like Orioles and Pied Starlings
🐞 Insects like the Red cotton bug, Giant honeybee and Butterflies
🐒 Mammals like the Hanuman langur and 5 striped palm squirrel
🕷️ Arachnida like the golden orb and silver orb spiders
🦎 Reptiles like the Oriental garden lizard
🌼 Native flowers Koronjo and Baans baha
🍃 Leaves of native trees like Sarjom (Sal) and Baaru (Kusum)
🍄 Fungi like Pink oyster mushroom and Hexagonia
✨ And many more...

🌏 By this biodiversity showcase of 100 species of flora and fauna, TRDSW informed the participants about the co-existence with nature. The need to observe, discuss and conserve these plants, fruits, flowers around us — to build a sustainable ecosystem for the future.





🌿 Highlights of our Education Program were beautifully showcased and explained at the Tribal Womens Collective 2.0.📚 The...
28/02/2026

🌿 Highlights of our Education Program were beautifully showcased and explained at the Tribal Womens Collective 2.0.

📚 The TRDSW Pedagogy includes:
🧰 Teaching toolkit
🧠 Cognitive skill development
🎯 Activity-based teaching
🧵 Hand-crafted teaching materials
🌱 Values for life
📖 Storytelling
👩‍🏫 Leadership development
🌳 Environmental education





🌿 Tribal Womens Collective 2.0 celebrated the living indigenous traditions of the Munda community, thus empowering livel...
27/02/2026

🌿 Tribal Womens Collective 2.0 celebrated the living indigenous traditions of the Munda community, thus empowering livelihoods within the environmental ecosystem🤍

🌱 Empowering Livelihoods by:
🌳 Nature Based Solutions
🌾 Climate Smart Agriculture
🐞 Lac Cultivation

🌾 Recognising Livelihood Traditions:
🪓 Traditional Agricultural Tools
🎣 Traditional Fishing Tools
🍲 Traditional Kitchen Ware
🥁 Traditional Music

🍃 Awareness about Indigenous Food Systems and seasonal varieties:
🌿 wild edible plant varieties
🌸 flowers
🍎 fruits
🐟 fish
🌱 seeds
🌾 foodgrains





16/01/2026

🌿 Johar Pune!
👋 Torpa Rural Development Society for Women (TRDSW) is now coming to your city ✨
🌾 Drop in and discover Living Indigenous Traditions curated by TRDSW 🤍
📅 17th January 2026
📍 Hyatt Place Hinjewadi
✨ See you tomorrow!











14/01/2026

🌿 Johar Pune!
👋 Mariaelena Figueredo, Director – Torpa Rural Development Society for Women (TRDSW) welcomes you to Living Indigenous Traditions 🤍
🪔 Living Indigenous Traditions is an exhibition in Pune curated by TRDSW. For the past three decades, TRDSW has been working in Torpa and Rania of Khunti district – Jharkhand 🌾
🌳 This long-standing interaction with the Munda community has now translated into a meaningful revival of traditional knowledge. From a young child to a village elder, the Mundas have been custodians of forests 🌿, with knowledge passed on to them from their ancestors 🕊️
📜 On realizing that this undocumented knowledge needed to be captured and kept alive for the future, TRDSW felt the need for preservation.
✨ Preservation of untold stories, of oral traditions, by living indigenous traditions.
🌱 For a better today, for a better future.














13/01/2026

🌿 Native names for native plants – listen to Torpa Rural Development Society for Women’s Village Animators talk about wild edible plants 🌱 as per their own consumption patterns.
🗣️ The closest names that come to their minds are the Hindi / Nagpuri language substitutes – these words are only used for selling in the bazaars 🧺.
👀 Look at the glint in the eye and the accurate identification of species that would stun any botanist in the world 🌼✨
🌾 For a closer insight into the bazaar economy and the innate gift of forest living, drop in from 3pm to 6pm on 17th January, 2026
📍 Hyatt Place Hinjewadi














11/01/2026

🌱 To celebrate and strengthen traditional knowledge systems, community events were organised, focusing on indigenous seed conservation, 🌾 wild edible plants, 🍃 and multi-layer farming demonstrations.
🗣️ “Hapram ko-uh Sennah” – a phrase in the Mundari language which means the knowledge of our ancestors was a sentiment felt among the women as the older women shared their knowledge with younger women about wild edible plant varieties that are soon vanishing 🌿🤍
🤝 Torpa Rural Development Society for Women also prioritised the strengthening of Self-Help Groups (SHGs), recognising them not just as financial collectives, but as platforms for women’s leadership and social transformation ✨
🌸 Building leadership and stories of transformation will be shared by Self Help Group (SHG) women on 17th January, 2026 at Pune 📍














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Torpa Rural Development Society For Women
Torpa
835227

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Monday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 4pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Saturday 8:30am - 12pm

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