Vihigaon, a small adivasi village having 12 padas, is situated at about 15 km from Kasara, in Shahapur taluka, Dist. Thane in Maharashtra. Since 1994, members of the group visit there every weekend. The basic aim of our development programme is to develop a cordial relationship with the villagers, understand their problems and assist them in solving their problems using our expertise. The village having population of 1600, suffers badly from the dearth of water, especially during the 4 months of summer.
Villagers have to strive hard to fetch water from the remote wells.
Not to mention of water for cattle and agricultural purposes. It is due to this water crisis that the villagers could not implement various government schemes like tree plantation. In spite of good rain, people still suffer from shortage of water because of lack of storage facility. Also, uncertainty of rain cuts down their crop earnings and they are left with no choice but to spend their days in utter hardship working on hard jobs like road construction or to migrate with the whole family to the nearest city. Thus, most of the ways of their income are unstable and lead them to a life full of hardship.