Fit for post Corona My call got her out of a rehearsal for a reality dance show, a telecast competition which will be on TV soon. In this show, famous dancers from across Nepal participate with a dance-partner. They compete in front of a critical television audience who decide which couple advances to the […]
Corona Blog – 14-08-2020 Read More »
The Vellayani Lake Challenge By Ajith Kumar, Manager Administration at kanthari Once upon a time, we had a lake that had sparkling fresh water. The Vellayani area and its lake was one of the best hotspots for photographers and cinematographers, its ambience being one of the most beautiful in Kerala. Years later the scenario has
Corona Blog – 07-08-2020 Read More »
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
Corona Blog – 31-07-2020 Read More »
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
Corona Blog – 24-07-2020 Read More »
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
Corona Blog – 18-07-2020 Read More »
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
Corona Blog – 17-07-2020 Read More »
‘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
Corona Blog – 10-07-2020 Read More »
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
Corona Blog – 03-07-2020 Read More »
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
Corona Blog – 26-06-2020 Read More »
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
Corona Blog – 19-06-2020 Read More »