Challenges offer chances, Alternative learning in rural Nigeria By Odunayo Aliu, a 2018 kanthari graduate and founder of Bramble. Somewhere in a village, in the middle of a thick forest, young girls and boys experience learning by playing with wood, insects, plastic waste and whatever they can lay their hands on. They watch […]
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Examinations – A consistent reason for student suicides since 2000. – by Meghana Raveendra, founder of moringa As per the National Crime Records Bureau, ‘Exam failure accounts for 2% of the total number of student suicides in India’. This category was specifically included by Ministry of Human Resource Development as more and more cases
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Sierra Leone, yes! Dans l’est de la Sierra Leone, le Manor se jette entre les trois pays de la Sierra Leone, la Guinée et le Libéria. Ce fleuve frontalier sépare la Sierra Leone de la Guinée. C’est le premier obstacle pour de nombreux réfugiés qui entament ici leur dangereux voyage vers l’Europe, un voyage dans
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Yes, Sierra Leone! (part 2) “When we got there, we were relieved, we thought we had done a good job. What we didn’t know is that things would get much worse. There were other rebels who welcomed us by whipping us so hard that we still have those scars.” This kind of brutality became a
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Yes, Sierra Leone! (part 1) In the far east of Sierra Leone, in the three-country corner of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, you can find the Manor river. This border river separates Sierra Leone from Guinea. This is the first hurdle for many refugees making their perilous journey to Europe, a journey in which many
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‘Switch off Video’: On Caste, Cameras and an Unexpected Perk of Online Education From a LiveWire post, dated 24th June 2020. Original article: http://livewire.thewire.in/personal/switch-off-video-on-caste-cameras-and-an-unexpected-perk-of-online-education/ In the past we had written two posts dealing with digital classrooms: Day 23 (Meghana Raveendra, founder of moringa) and Day 47 (Abhijit Sinha, founder of Project DEFY). Here
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Agro-forestry A glimpse of a selected 2020 kanthari applicant into his future vision, before the dream is going to be transformed into reality. (By Biman Roy) “I have been selected for the 2020 kanthari course. Even though, due Covid-19, our program has not started yet, with the help of our catalysts (that is how
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How the world as we know it has changed over the past 6 months! Every day we wonder what will happen next… There are many questions, and only a few answers. The 12th kanthari course was scheduled to start in May, however, due to the Covid19 pandemic, we had to postpone it. When we will
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In the shadow of war and Corona Perhaps some of you who have read our earlier blogposts remember the articles from March 31st and April 1st, 2020. It was about war in times of the corona pandemic. Or rather, it was about the absence of the civil war between the French-speaking and the English-speaking parts
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Pride in Isolation by Chack Jacob, kanthari catalyst “Would it bother you if your roommate is from a completely different culture or belief system?” “Absolutely not, I love working with different kinds of people” “We also have participants from the LGBTQI community, who face a lot of discrimination in many African countries, what’s your opinion
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