Quarterly Newsletter 4-2014 2014 has passed by in incredible speed and it is high time for the last quarterly newsletter of the year. Act 2 Change for Change The second act ended with the Change for Change event. This year in cooperation with the kalliyoor Panchayad (a local community) a waste management project was initiated. […]
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Quarterly Newsletter 3-2014 this year’s kanthari course is well on its way and many things have happened during the past three months. In this newsletter we want to share the latest developments. First Act The kanthari curriculum, a journey in five acts, takes participants through a series of activities that enables them to start own
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MISSING: CHANGEMAKER CARRIES A PLAN FOR SOCIAL CHANGE! TRAINING COURSE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE Here a call to social entrepreneurs who want to make a difference! The next kanthari course starts in May 2016. Applications are now welcome. Please do inform those who you think are potential candidates and ask them to apply now via https://www.kanthari.org/. The world needs
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Quarterly Newsletter 2-2014 Dark clouds cover the Sky, a brief hissing sound is coming closer and raises its volume. It sounds like a train that speeds through the countryside. Suddenly rain starts pouring down and brings some coolness in the heat of the days in the very South of India. The monsoon set in only
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kanthari from Kampala Harriet Kamashanyu is a 2013 kanthari graduate. She just participated in an SE Outreach Accelerator program in Sweden. Here a blogpost about her work and experiences; Rhythm of Life, Bringing Hope to the Red-Light District in Kampala The first impression you would get of 24 year Harriet Kamashanyu is that of a high
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News from Bats in Action Anja Pfaffenzeller is a 2011 kanthari graduate. Anja’s project is named Bats in Action and is based in Brasil. Anja just shared the following news: “Today, there is good news to share. In Sobral, a city in Northeastern Brazil and the surrounding areas, more and more Bats are in Action
Blind Rocks Sristi, a blind 2012 kanthari graduate runs “Blind Rocks”; a mobile workshop with which she travels around the world to rock the blind through dance, fashion and adventure. Sristi shared the following adventurous experience with us: “Tomek, kanthari graduate of 2013 and I, had planned to conduct a “blind-Rocks”-workshop in Chhitup’s school for the
INK Talk Sabriye Tenberken Sabriye Tenberken lost her eyesight but never lost her vision. She traveled to Tibet, where they see blindness as a punishment for something done in a past life, with the aim to change mindsets about blindness. Her message — “I’m blind, so what? I can do so many things.” In 2009,
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kanthari graduation 2013 “Be catalysts for social transformation”, says KR Jyothilal IAS at the 2013 kanthari graduation ceremony. “In the current society, overload of information is ‘killing’ people, instead of ‘skilling’ them”, said KR Jyothilal IAS, secretary, General administration, Government of Kerala. He was speaking at the fifth kanthari graduation ceremony. He pointed out that
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Goodbye kanthari The 2013 kanthari training course has come to an end. All the graduates are in the process of departure. Many laughs and tears are shared on goodbyes.. The following mail was shared by Thomas Sarko from Liberia.. Thomas’ vision is to see a Liberia where, young people express their problems through creative communication instead