“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…
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Two tailoring machines for tribal women – a small contribution, but a huge impact
We have made it. We have collected some money among friends and colleagues. Via betterplace, an online platform that helps to collect some money. Nothing special, nothing big. It takes just some time to describe the project and to ask friends to help. Even a few EUR make a big difference. In this case the…
Talking to Tea Field Workers about health in Valparai, India
Staying in the South Indian plains of Tamil Nadu you cannot imagine what’s up there in the hills at a height of ca. 1500 feet. For reaching the most known places such as Ooty, Munnar or Valparai you have to climb up a huge number of hair pin bends. And then, at a certain point…
Lakshmi, a woman who wants to discover the world and beautiful Valparai
Lakshmi is eighteen. She’ s still at school. Another year, then she wants to go to university – if possible at Coimbatore, a four hours trip from here. When I meet her the first time in Villoni, a very small and remote village in the surroundings of Valparai in the West Ghat mountains, a very…
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…
Women education is key, but what about men?
Women education is key For change but not enough Everyone who is somehow involved in development issues knows that education is one of the basics to build a real sustainable progress in a personal life, a village, a region. Women are those who generally are known to be keen to learn. Women Are Social multiplicators…
Nearly a fifth of all women are Indian. Where are they going? A book recommendation
In India, there live more than 17% of all women in the world. The rate of women below the age of fifteen is even higher: 20%, this corresponds to 174 million young women. Have you ever thought what this could mean economical- and development-wise if these women got a chance of a good education and…
A shelter for battered women on time and a marriage
“Eightyseven women have been here since the beginning of this year, and every year more and more contact us via the help line or come directly to the shelter”, H. tells me. H. is an Indian woman who fourty years ago started as s social worker in the surroundings of Mangalore and dedicated her…
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…
Tribal tamil women enjoy proudly their first cooking book – copy wanted?
Some months have passed since two tribal villages invited me for a cooking function. It was an amazing day. They had shown me how they prepare food, chicken and fish, bread, wheat, curries … How they prepare open fireplaces and cook in traditional manner. I had taken a lot of photos and with the…
Go India, go future! 