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1/ 84-YO shepherd from #Karnataka builds 16 ponds on barren hill, turns his village green
#Thread 👇
1/ 84-YO shepherd from #Karnataka builds 16 ponds on barren hill, turns his village green
2/ For four decades now, Kaamegowda (a shepherd from in Karnataka's Mandya district) has been quietly going about his job of digging ponds on a barren hill near his village Daasanadoddi.
3/ What inspired him to do this? While taking his flock of sheep grazing on the hillside, Kaamegowda would see scores of stressed animals and birds struggling to quench their thirst due to the lack of watering holes on the hill.
4/ So he sold some of his sheep and purchased tools to dig small ponds for the animals.
"Sometimes, I would go to the hillock to dig a pond during nighttime, armed with a lamp or on a full moon day,” he says.
"Sometimes, I would go to the hillock to dig a pond during nighttime, armed with a lamp or on a full moon day,” he says.
5/ Spending all his savings, he managed to construct 16 ponds that have turned the entire hill lush green. He also linked them with a waterway that ensures when the upper ponds on the hill are filled, the surplus water flows into the ponds below.
You are our hero, Kaamegowda!
You are our hero, Kaamegowda!
