[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...
[gallery link="file"] Visit to field project, by Ana Míguez. Last weekend we visited one of Practical Action and OSVSWA's projects in the village of Manjari, in the Daspalla Block of the Nayagarh District. Manjari is located in a remote forest area inaccessible for some months during the...
Network strengthening in India, by Ana Miguez. Networking is crucial in order for the different NGOs and development agencies working together in the state of Odisha to better coordinate and effectively achieve its poverty reduction goals as well as to achieve MDGs. Yesterday we attended the “Consultation on...
India - Clean and healthy environment for children by OSVSWA team We keep getting to know better our host organization, OSVSWA (http://www.osvswa.org/), as well as its partners and donors. Among them we find Practical Action (http://practicalaction.org/) which is a UK based NGO and an important partner of...
Starting work in India, by Ana Míguez. Today we attended the 'National Workshop on Tribal Rights and Resource Governance' held in the city of Bhubaneswar. Many OSVSWA's past and ongoing projects are taking place in rural and remote areas of the state and its beneficiaries are...