Gond

Most of them belong to the indigenous Gond and Kol tribes, who live along the edge of forests and depend on farming for a living.

“My baby will be safer,” she said in Gondi, a language spoken by an estimated 13 million members of the Indigenous Gond community.

But the exclusion the women of Gond and Madia tribes in Gadchiroli, one of India's poorest and most underdeveloped districts, face is extreme.

As well as overseeing the park, Gond runs supplementary lessons for the children, outside the schoolhouse, using rocks as counting aids.

It is also home to the Gond, one of India’s Adivasis, the name given to the country’s original indigenous peoples.