India is one of the countries which is the most exposed to the Natural disasters. All of them can occur in India: earthquakes, tsunami, Landslides, cyclone, flood. The manmade disaster also happened often: fire, chemical disaster like the sadly famous city of Bhopal. A chemical...
[gallery link="file" columns="6" orderby="rand"] La semana pasada visitamos un proyecto en Hissar, “Save the Girls Child”, por motivo del día de la mujer, 8 de Marzo. Este proyecto educa a las mujeres actualmente casadas y sus familias, en comunidades pobres, sobre la importancia de la igualdad de...
India is one of the countries which is the most exposed to the Natural disasters. All of them can occur in India: earthquakes, tsunami, Landslides, cyclone, flood. The manmade disaster also happened often: fire, chemical disaster like the sadly famous city of Bhopal. A chemical...
Promotion of renewable energy in rural India by Katja Goertz Nardigochha is a small remote village with 113 inhabitants situated inside the forest. The tribal residents gain their livelihood with agriculture and producing minor forest products. Due to its inaccessibility the village is not electrified. The access...
[gallery link="file" columns="6" orderby="rand"] Nav Srishti(= New World) was formed by a group of social activists having a common objective to work for women and child development, registered in 1994. This group realized that most of the women were victims of domestic violence and they had...
A touch of spice: The Indian Masala Chai, by Ana Miguez Chai from India is a sweet aromatic spiced milk tea, also known as masala tea, which is consumed by millions of people each day just as we in the West drink coffee. Masala tea or chai...
[gallery] India is rising for women, by Ana Miguez. According to the latest UN reports, one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. A billion women suffering from some kind of violence is not an acceptable figure. This fact led...
Weekend trip to Chilika Lake - India by Katja Goertz This weekend we went from Bhubaneswar to Rambha, a small place on the side of Chilika Lake. It is around 120 km away from Bhubaneswar. Chilika is a brackish water lagoon on the east coast of India,...
The death of a student who was raped on a Delhi bus underlines the seriousness of the gender problems in India. This is a topic very difficult to explain for the amount of issues that are intertwined. Therefore I am going try to explain briefly some...
Childreach India is running its first own project in a little district of the state Haryana called Hissar, where I will used to work in the next month. Haryana is a state in North West of Delhi. On one hand it got famous for steel...