![]() ![]() Tradition also ensures that a person asking for help does not feel ashamed or embarrassed. There is well laid down process on how to call Halma, in whose presence can it be called, etc. This brings the community together and this is a kind of disaster relief response developed by community. But in the bhil tribe, this is very prominent and important phenomenon. Such traditions are present in different parts of India. Only expectation is that the family should whole heartedly participate if a similar situation arises in the village with another family. ![]() They do this without expecting anything from family. All villagers come to support the family and provide necessary support in terms of farm work, home repairing or any other kind of help, the family requires in that distress situation. When all other options to uplift a family’s situation get over, the family calls Halma in the village. This tradition can be found in all the states where Bhil reside. Halma is a Bhili tradition to help distressed families from villages. Traditions – promoting cooperation, conserving nature It first started way back in 2009 and became a yearly festival to give two days for mother earth. The leadership is from the local community. This Halma was called by local voluntary organization ‘Shivganga Abhiyan’. Here it was Her, ‘The Mother Earth’! The underlying feeling was ‘She is thirsty.’ Halma is a bhili tradition to help distress. People came here to participate in ‘Shivji ka Halma’. This action resulted in the completion of massive development of land- a community resource. ![]() Women with small children, elders, men, all participated in this ‘sewa-sanskar mela’. They participated on their own with no monetary expectation. 13, 2020 inĢ0,000 men and women from 500 villages joined voluntarily on 29th February 2020 to undertake soil and water conservation work in Jhabua district. ![]()
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