Corona Blog

Back in India We were quite prepared for a lockdown, but on the ninth day the restrictions are noticeable. Since we have only recently started to plant vegetables, we are now slowly running low on vegetables and fruits. Meat has not been around for a while already, but we can do well without. The authorities […]

War in times of Corona (part 2) Peace Crops is an NGO of a 2019 kanthari graduate from Cameroon. In his 10-minute kanthari Dream speech, he describes a life beyond peace. It was on July 12, 1998 that Joshua Njeke drove home with his father and younger brother. They had watched the football World Cup

War in times of Corona (part 1) Whenever we think of kantharis in times of crisis, we mainly remember catastrophies such as Fani, a destructive cyclone in Odissa, the 2018 and 2019 floods in Kerala, the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal, and we think of wars, especially the rather unnotified civil war in Cameroon, an armed

What about Children in times of Corona?   According to WHO data, the Corona virus doesn’t seem to affect children so much. However, children without family members are facing a lot of challenges too. Gouri Shankar Mishra, a 2015 kanthari graduate is the founder or An-Anya, an organisation that advocates for children’s rights and that

And who benefits? If we didn’t know better, we would believe that we are in the middle of a jungle. Crickets, frogs, birds of all kind, no airplanes, no trains, hardly any other traffic. When I am on the phone with kantharis, friends and family, I hear everyone saying: “The sky was never as blue, the

Lockdown in rural areas The question that is asked everywhere in India: how does a complete lockdown work in remote areas? Where people live in small shelters and have to leave their huts for every personal need, whether it is cooking food or basic hygiene. Many people don’t have toilets or running water inside of the

Nationwide Lockdown in India Today is the first day of the 21 day lockdown. So far, all decisions that impacted us regarding the Corona outbreak were made by the Kerala state and they were on top of the situation. Last Monday, a one-week statewide lockdown was announced. All our colleagues, who could still travel, were