“What the New Year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.” – Vern McLellan Well… we have finally reached a new year, and hopefully one that will go into the history books as ‘the year in which the Corona virus was defeated’. Thinking about it, it is […]
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“The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime.” Croft M. Pentz As time moves on and the daily global numbers of new positive cases and deaths are still rising, the world is currently waiting… eagerly waiting for the Covid19 pandemic to be over. Billions of people have been, are and will
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How the world as we know it has changed over the past 6 months! Every day we wonder what will happen next… There are many questions, and only a few answers. The 12th kanthari course was scheduled to start in May, however, due to the Covid19 pandemic, we had to postpone it. When we will
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“Everyone has two lives. The second starts when you realize you only have one.”- Confucius This quote from Confucius gets (a new) momentum with the Corona crisis. Sabriye and I are in Kerala, India where, since March 25th, 2020, there has been a 21-day national lockdown that affects 1.3 Billion people. What immediately struck us
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Quarterly Newsletter 4-2019 “Where is everybody when the children on the streets are crying? Where is everybody when the children on the street are dying? I see nobody when I look left or right. I see thousands of children when I look back from where I came and it is bleak and unclear when I
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Dear friends and supporters of kanthari, On the 27th of April 2019 we got a message that three Ugandese participants had missed their connecting flight and got stuck in Nairobi. When we requested for more details on whatsapp… no reply… Every year there are quite a bit of nerve wrecking moments when a new group
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Every year, from the beginning of January to the end of April, the kanthari campus is rather quiet. The sounds of birds, our dogs, jumping fish and quaking frogs are breaking the silence. However, this year is different: The campus and the entire property was used as much as possible. This year, the organization MAD
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Quarterly Newsletter 4-2018 HAPPY NEW YEAR! The wooden gate of the kanthari campus closes behind us. It is incredible how time flies, it seems like yesterday that we started the first kanthari leadership training in 2009. And now we just finalized the tenth course! During this special year we had a group of 23 participants from 13
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Dear supporters, friends, in our last quarterly newsletter we mentioned that the monsoon had arrived. At that time we didn’t know that it would lead to one of the worst floods in more than 100 years here in Kerala. Luckily, the water has receded but the damage that it left behind is tremendous. One of
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The monsoon has arrived and affects daily life in India. Mainly during the night it rains cats and dogs. The usually already lush landscape turns into a glowing splendor of colors. The average temperature is app 28 degrees Celsius. The mood on campus is high. Everywhere small groups of participants can be found, busy discussing,
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