Mandal

Mandal, in the district of Tapi, is the name of both a small village and the mission where I stayed the last week. Same context, Adivasi people. But with a different language called Gamit. Look at some tribal art:

Two special particularities make this mission different:
- The milk cooperative: idea conceived in order to provide the villagers with one extra income. A lot of buffaloes were distributed many years ago and the families care of them and collect the milk together. Mandal milk is going everywhere around south Gujarat everyday... big success!!
- The women organization: working for the woman's rights and helping the families with micro-financing formation and support (it works like a small bank for them). Nowadays, this organization counts with 2700 members, and increasing.

In one village, women wanted to run a cooperative by themselves...

... but men did not allow them.

So, a meeting with the people was indispensable...

... and almost 6 hours later, men accepted the idea and understood the greatness of such a project!!


There was also time for deep conversations about mind and life and for trying some experiences... in the photo I'm trying to ask questions to my subconscious about myself and about my future., jajajaja!! It is as funny as interesting. There are so many things that we do not know about our mind...

Believer or not in the power of your own mind, I would recommend you to take a look to the first 20 minutes of the movie The Secret, talking about The Secret of Attraction. Ah! Forget the part in which it talks about money, I don't like it. You can find the movie in every language. Here you can find the link to those first 20 minutes in English. It is worth watching it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1GKGWJbE8