Ka Synjuk
Ki Hima Arliang Wah Umiam
Mawphlang Welfare Society

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-“Ia la ka Mei Mariang, Ngin Sumar Kylliang” –

-“It is our part, to take care of our Mother Nature”-

Our Vision

Restore a green and sustainable economy to benefit the indigenous communities.

Our mission

Increase forest cover, improve forest management, and uplift family livelihoods through community participation and leadership.

KHASI HILLS Community redd+ Project

The Khasi Hills Community Redd+ Project  is designed to slow, halt and, hopefully, reverse the loss of forest cover in the project area by providing institutional, natural resource management and financial incentives to local communities. Furthermore, it represents a durable strategy to address the extreme poverty facing rural families through alternative sources of income and capacity building. It seeks to demonstrate how the Khasi community, coordinated by their own institutions, can implement activities that control drivers of deforestation such as forest fire, unsustainable fuelwood collection, charcoal-making, agricultural land-clearing,grazing, and quarrying. Mitigation activities help restore forest cover, improve watershed hydrology, and make a transition to more sustainable agricultural systems which are climate resilient.

 

FOUNDING OF THE SYNJUK

 

Tambor Lyngdoh (then Secretary of (Hima) Mawphlang Lyngdohship)

 

(L) Mr. N. K. Lyngdoh, Lyngdoh of Hima Mawphlang

In 2010-11, Mr. Tambor Lyngdoh initiated a meeting of traditional Heads of the various Hima in the area of the sub-watershed, creating the joint protection group on Forest Conservation in the Umiam Sub-Watershed. This has resulted in the establishment of a Federation of indigenous traditional institutions who collaborate to protect the environment and raise the socio-economic livelihood of the participating communities. The Synjuk was registered as a non-government, non-profit, charitable organization with its headquarters at Mawphlang, Meghalaya, India on 15 June 2011. (Click here for a copy of Registration)

The Synjuk consists of two (2) representatives of ten (10) participating Hima who form the Executive Committee: Mawphlang Lyngdohship, Lyngiong Lyngdohship, Sohra Syiemship, Mylliem Syiemship, Nongspung Syiemship, Nongkhlaw Syiemship, Nonglwai Sirdarship, Pomsanngut Sirdarship, Mawbeh Sirdarship and Laitkroh Sirdarship. The General Committee consists of all the Headmen, Matabor and Sordar from all the 85 Villages, including a few selected women and youths from each Hima.

 

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