Is healthcare equally accessible for all? by Meghana Raveendra. Every year, the 7th of April is celebrated as World Health Day to create awareness and bring to the front important health issues across the world by the World Health Organisation. On this occasion I thought it is relevant to share about the lack of access […]
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Another kind of mentor by Meghana Raveendran, a kanthari graduate of 2019 “If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.” – J Loren Norris This quote by Lorena Norris is a peak into what we at kanthari believe mentoring is all about. For years we have seen that
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“It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop” – Confucius The past year has surely affected you and everyone else, everywhere. From the 25th of March 2020 when the lockdown in India started, life as we had known it, changed. We were forced to adapt to the new situation, and
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Networking for Social Change & Personal Development. By Peter Adeeko, founder of Soulace Africa The world we live in is entangled in a huge web. To think of untangling it is to create further chains of complexity. This fact is what explains my connection with Mayuri Joshi Dhavale, whom I popularly call as “Mayor”. In
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Sustainable design – the kanthari campus By Pragya Raut, architect, Nepal. A severe earthquake of 7.8 magnitude hit Nepal on 25th of April 2015. It was the greatest of the century in which more than 9000 people died, 20,000 people were injured, and more than half a million houses were destroyed. Now 6 years
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knock knock knock – By Meghana Raveendra “Networking is not about just connecting people. It’s about connecting people with people, people with ideas, and people with opportunities.” – Michele Jennae And now imagine, if these people are ethical social change makers! Wouldn’t that bring about spice in different parts of the world? COVID-19 has
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Water, water everywhere… Recently, something remarkable happened in our lake Vellayani. Here is the tale from two perspectives. The shishyan perspective (Shishyan means disciple in malayalam, ശിഷ്യൻ) By Salini John, Admin and Academic Supporter “I love to be at the beach, at waterfalls and riversides, but I was very fearful to go into the water.
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Learn to say “no” in order to say “yes” at the right time. by Chacko Jacob People often wonder why Trivandrum was chosen as the location for kanthari. Why not a big city like Mumbai or Delhi? There is something different about the state of Kerala. It constantly ranks high when it comes to
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Micro-credits – a blessing… or a curse? Part 5 “Whenever I see a Problem, I start a business to solve it.” – Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, and poster-boy for all who believe that doing good and getting rich in the process is not a paradox. Just like in the last chapter, my
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Microcredit, a blessing… or a curse? – A multi-series essay about microfinance, Part 4 – by Sabriye Tenberken Last week I had thought that today’s chapter to be the final one in this series, but the more I dive into the topic of microfinance, the louder my alarm bells ring. I cannot help but vent
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