Online training – this might be a key for future learning – in developed and emerging countries. It does not matter where you live or how old you are. It does not matter who you are or what you have learned before, there is no access limitation (and if so, it might be the missing…
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IT skills,Dhritee & Dhitulee, a children book and and a better future
“Dhritee & Dhitulee – All about Pearl” is a story book for children that captures an interesting interaction between a child and an insect leading to an enlightening discovery. “Well”, you might say, “it could be one of the thousands and thousands of children book all over the world.” Right, but “Dhritee and Dhitulee” is NOT just…
A children home in Mangalore – school bags and undergarment needed
When I enter the children home in Mangalore, there are ony a few children. Most of them stay in a room on the 1st floor, where Gita, a volunteer, explains how the Internet works. The girls are very interested. What they experience here, is a small part of the “big world” outside, a world they…
Digital potential to combat poverty – there is still a big gap
Wherever I have been during my Indian stay, even in small tribal villages, while talking to people, it happened after a while: People came closer, interested to find out more on what I was doing with the smartphone. Nearly everyone of the younger generation (not just the youngest, but also men and women up to…
Education in India- Tribal girls go for more goats, a lipstick and microbiology
We stay in one of the tribal villages close to Coimbatore where in the last years a lot of change has happened. It is a village with about 350 people/hundred families. Three women Self Help Groups have been set up six years ago and since then a huge number of trainings and awareness programs…
A dream kindergarten – perceptions, visions and dreams of different worlds
If you are asked to draw a “dream kindergarten”, how would your picture look? Probably, you would go for a nice, large building, subdivided in several rooms with a good and safe equipment for all ages, a lot of toys and materials needed for a good education and a large playground space. In one of…
Knitting with tribal women in Tamil Nadu, India
The knitting experience I wanted to find out how the intercultural collaboration and interaction “across the borders” works and feels: being in middle of tribal women, who are organized in some selfhelp groups, live in very limited infrastructural surroundings and who are busy with caring goats and providing the basics for their families. How…
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…
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…
The Secret of a successful training for tribal women
Development means more than knowledge transfer At the learning center in the rural surroundings of Coimbatore the tribal women of the villages around join in large groups. Today there is a workshop on hygiene. I noticed it already some months ago. There is a huge interest in education. The interest in getting to know, in…
Go India, go future! 