The Sustainable Kashmir Club is just what our young people especially in academic institutions are looking for – a space to come together, reflect, learn and gear up for action to bring the desired change! The goal is to facilitate inclusive socio-economic transformation by building personal and community leadership capacity among young people in Kashmir. The Club brings a grassroots understanding of personal and social transformation, ecological entrepreneurship and community perspective to their academic experience. They develop a thorough understanding of the empowering growth mindset and how it can help them overcome limitations. They also understand how ecological entrepreneurship can help them realize their aspirations, as well as help solve the pressing problems our society is faced with.

In its first phase, MOOL and The Village Academy launched the Club was launched in collaboration with the Central University of Kashmir, Ganderbal, The University of Kashmir, Srinagar, and the Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Lar, Ganderbal.

The initiative could not have come about at a better time and represents a culmination of many processes in our work with young people!

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In collaboration with the Department of Social Work, University of Kashmir, MOOL trained and supported twenty local women in getting the knowledge, skills, and resources required to start and lead small scale eco business units around dairy farming and handicrafts including sozni works, knitting and stitching & design, and natural soap making. Over a span of ten capacity building workshops, participants were trained in the mindset, personal capacities, and the skillset they would require to transform their business ideas into practical initiatives for their economic well being, and that of their families and communities. Read on!