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CS1 Final Project:

Hargila Army Website

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grandparents

Assam

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Greater Adjutant Stork

(locally known as “Hargila”)

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Dr. Purnima Devi Barman

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Barman works to make sure that villages are educated on the importance of protecting this bird by directly involving the community. She does this through celebrating the birth of baby storks with “baby showers” and leading community dances in which songs are sung that refer to the storks. As seen on the sari of Dr. Barman [front], the women of the village also work on machines to produce fabric with the Greater Adjutant stork on them and wear them. By involving the stork through many different aspects of Assam’s villages, locals recognize the need to save this endangered species and learn how they themselves can spread awareness. Not only is Dr. Purnima Devi Barman helping the stork, she is also giving voice to women in rural villages of North India in the fight for conservation.

Physically, Barman and villagers plant and nurture plantations to serve as nesting sites for the now growing population. She also helps rehabilitate fallen birds and takes sick birds in. With your help, the Hargila Army can provide more homes and care for the Greater Adjutant Stork, and continue to raise its population.

We got to see the looms
We got to meet the women involved
It’s such a tightly strung and determined community

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they didn’t have a website…so…

I made one