Cycle & Stove Distribution

The Challenge

In the Pak-displaced settlements around Jaisalmer, small everyday barriers can be the difference between a child getting to school and dropping out, or a family cooking safely and going without. A long walk to school in the desert heat, or no reliable way to cook, are the kind of gaps that rarely make it into a funding proposal but shape daily life all the same.

Our Response

Bicycles. With the Refugee Aid Project (RAP), Delhi, UJAS distributed free bicycles to around 90 children from displaced families across settlements including Amuram ki Dhani, Amarsagar, Bhil Basti Ward 7, Santuram ki Dhani, Revantsingh ki Dhani, and Narsing Oad Basti — closing the distance between home and school for children who had been dropping out over exactly that gap. Similar cycle distribution drives reached school students in Ramgarh and at the Rajkiya Uchch Madhyamik Vidyalaya, extending the same support to local government-school students alongside the displaced community.

Stoves. In Narsing Oad Basti (Ward 44, Babar Magra), UJAS distributed solar cookers to 32 families — 170 people in total — replacing unsafe or improvised cooking arrangements with a safer, more reliable way to prepare meals.

Recognition

The cycle distribution was covered by Dainik Bhaskar’s Jaisalmer-Pokaran edition, with former district officials and local representatives attending the handover and speaking to the importance of keeping displaced children in school.