Hosts

This category explores the work done by our hosts organizations. Everything from their change theory to innovations, and work with the communities

Embracing Sacred Activism: A Global Movement For Water And Life

Embracing Sacred Activism: A Global Movement For Water And Life

For me, life is sacred. I'm thankful that I am able to see and walk, that my consciousness to perceive what's sacred is growing. Hearing Aida Shibli, a peace activist from Palestine made me think about sacred activism. As Andrew Harvey put it, "Sacred Activism is a...

Gandhi Jayanti At Gram Swaraj Sangh

Gandhi Jayanti At Gram Swaraj Sangh

Early in the morning, all the residents of Gram Swaraj Sangh (GSS) campus and the students of the school assembled at the ground. The gardening hoes and brooms were put in line. All of us divided ourselves into groups and self-assigned the tasks. This was how we...

Facilitating Dialogue – Choice, Opportunity and Rights

Facilitating Dialogue – Choice, Opportunity and Rights

The Gram Panchayat often tend to be a traditionally dominating body and can have complex systems that make it challenging to have a coordinated system of governance, with planned and holistic facilitation. At the same time, it can also create space for advancement in...

Settling In And Attending A Visioning Exercise

Settling In And Attending A Visioning Exercise

Finding A Place To Live Last month brought with it some of the most challenging days I've experienced so far. What aided me in not letting these days get the better of me was perhaps giving my mind the space to reflect and bounce. A simple meal and conversations....

Community Policing Programme In Kushalgarh

Community Policing Programme In Kushalgarh

A society that normalises and neglects violence against women slowly develops a disturbing pattern, disregarding the safety, basic rights, and dignity of women within the community. This social behaviour eventually encourages silence and acceptance. It leads to the...

Collectives: Empowering Individuals For Social Change

Collectives: Empowering Individuals For Social Change

This article delves into the transformative role of collectives in the social sector, with a focus on their impact on individual empowerment. It underlines the importance of individual agency within these structures. It also emphasizes on collectives amplifying...

साथी कार्मिक सुरेश चंद की दिनचर्या का विवरण

साथी कार्मिक सुरेश चंद की दिनचर्या का विवरण

जीवन के रंग-बिरंगे मंच पर विभिन्न भूमिकाओं के निभानेवाले मेरे साथी कार्मिक सुरेश चंद एक आत्मविश्वासी, ज़िम्मेदार, समय के पाबन्द तथा पूर्ण ईमानदारी के साथ काम करने वाले इंसान हैं। इनकी साधारणता के पीछे दबी अनगिनत कथाएं हैं, जो उनकी अद्वितीयता को उजागर करती हैं। वे पिछले...

Arranging For A Table And Pulling Some Chairs

Arranging For A Table And Pulling Some Chairs

I am working with Khamir on creating a craft curriculum and delivering it in schools. Our vision is to create an education system that is not only rooted in mainstream knowledge but also reveres the traditional knowledge systems that have thrived in India for...

Abhiram: The Unsung Hero Of Agragamee

Abhiram: The Unsung Hero Of Agragamee

In 1996, I got a task from my night school teacher. He had asked me to write about what I wanted to see in Kashipur after 10 years. I wrote about roads, markets, and public transport. In 2006, I saw the changes. – Abhiram Jhodia, a senior staff member at Agragamee,...

Trupti Kitchen : A Community Kitchen For Senior Citizens

Trupti Kitchen : A Community Kitchen For Senior Citizens

MArathwada NAVnirman LOKayat 'MANAVLOK', the organization I am part of, is working on myriad thematic areas like watershed management, health, education, women empowerment, disaster relief, agriculture, and livelihoods. Think of a thematic area and I bet MANAVLOK has...

Kitchen Garden Initiative By Koshika

Kitchen Garden Initiative By Koshika

Back in August 2021, I was reading The Obesity Code. The author, Dr. Jason Fung, prescribes an intermittent fasting diet, which restricts eating to a fixed schedule. Halfway through the book, I realized that part of the problem why intermittent fasting won’t seem to...

Digital Mobility In Panna, Madhya Pradesh

Digital Mobility In Panna, Madhya Pradesh

Sajan Bai (on the left) glares as I (on the right) download WhatsApp on her phone The popularity of smart phones has radically changed the way people communicate and gain information. With a single device, one can browse a random question on Google, text a classmate...