In Kerala, in the South of India, there live most of Christian Indians. Ca. 20% of the population are Christians, which is very high in comparison with most of all other Indian regions. From there come most of the Christian Sisters and Brothers working all over India – as priests, fathers, social workers, sisters…
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Indians, oxen and a deep trust in the world
B Indians can sleep everywhere and everytime. If you are on tour with a driver and you will just leave the car for ten minutes and come back, be sure that the driver will be there on the seat with closed eyes having a catnap. Sometimes they sleep on some racks and shelves in small…
Meeting the Children’s club at the end of the world
The children of Mokhmalla in the Gharwal live in one of the most isolated parts of the world. Due to bad roads, missing vehicles and money they live in the upper parts of a Himalayan mountain. They live at the end of a valley, there where the high Himalaya mountains start growing into heaven. It…
Life in the Himalaya: Dangerous roads, a disaster risk reduction plan and missing health facilities
From the official ‘road’ – it is a sandy small and unsafe way with danger of landslides, rockfalls and some cars that finished thirdy, fourty meters below in the abyss – we take a secondary ‘road’, a small path that leads into a small valley. No site tails, huge stones on the road, missing…
Sisters, social work and floods in the Gharwal
The way is long and exhausting, it takes more than 10 hours by car: small, broken roads, often deep abysses , endless bends, warning of landslides and rockfall. We, that’s a Priest and myself, are on the way to an isolated village in the Gharwal region. We will visit a social project with disabled children…
Visiting Sanyasi – Religion but also Social work
According to Hindu Mythology in everyone’s life there should be four parts of life, called also the four Ashrams: Vidyarthi, Grihastha, Vanprastha, and Sanyasa. Vidyarthi ashram, the first comprises the first 25 years. From 25 to the age of 50 people should get married and have a family. At 50 then the renunciation phase starts…
An “open air” Fitness workout Center in Varanasi
On the way back from Bihar I stop at Varanasi, one of the oldest cities of the world and additionally one of the very holy places in India. There is a lot to see and do there, ca. 3500 temples, ashrams, a huge university – and of course all the ghats and ceremonies. It is…
Go Future: Health awareness, education, violance – a personal report by a woman living in rural areas
They have electricity just for two hours a day. A mother, her two children, her mother and father-in-law and her husband. Her husband suffers from mental illness. They live in Bihar in very rural areas in a small house. A smokeless chullar with a van that does not work, a solar collector that gives light…
Indian Gysire and a smile
It all started with that smart hotel boy helping me to bring my luggage to the room. “Very special, room, Ma’m, very good one – everything new”. Ok, not too bad. Indeed when I entered I could see some interesting things and the hotel boy started to explain: “Look, Ma’m, good rocking chair, you stay…
A postponed international women day celebration in Karamadai, India
It was a really special day for more than thousand of women living in the rural and tribal area around and in Karamadai, a suburb of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. It was a special day to me, too. When we arrive around 10.30 am the women are all there, women who are going to celebrate…
Go India, go future! 