Presently a single access road links the village with the rest of the world. The condition of the road is worsened due to long negligence allowing only land-vehicles to move. Villages have to move nearly 3 Kilometers by foot along this road to reach Badulla- Kosgama main road to access public transport service.
The village has no access to the electricity from the main grid but they get electricity from a mini-hydro power plant located around 2 kilometers away from the village owned by a private company. Apart from that some households use solar panels to obtain electricity.
The villagers have to visit several miles to access public services such as health, postal and agrarian services. But the village has a school with 06 children belongs to different grades and they are blessed with 06 dedicated teachers.
The major occupation of the villages is agriculture, mainly the paddy cultivation. Furthermore, villages cultivate vegetable during the season that paddy cultivation is not done. With this state villages are highly depending on the adjacent forest. They collect various non-timber forest products from the forest as an alternative livelihood option. Also, most of the villagers owning cattle and they are freely grazing in the close by forests. Such practices with the forest have caused forest degradation. Villages found insensitive about their forest exploitation (such as breaking tree branches and setting fire have fresh grass for cattle). Forest fires are frequently reported and villages set fire to dead grasses during the dry spells just before the onset of monsoon rain. Annually many such fires are taking place leading to heavy forest degradation.
For further information about the case please refer the following article to know more about the village.
Note: Baduludena in one of the project site under
CBR+ Project under GEF small grant programme. The project is implemented by Sabaragamuwa Community Development Foundation. Janathakshan assists the implementing organization by building their capacity and Sharing learning and best practices.
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| The access road to the village |
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| The paddy field |
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| Community hall and the religious place |
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| A house in the village |
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| A house in the vilalge |
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| The village tank |
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| A solar panel used to obtain electracity |
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| The road to the village school |
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| The village school |
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| Students |
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| The village is protected by an electric fence as the village is threaten by wild elephant attack.
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| Frequent forest fires |
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| The degraded forest lands due to forest fires |
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| The degraded forest lands due to forest fires |
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| The degraded forest lands due to forest fires |
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| The degraded forest lands due to forest fires |
