What happens if the information flow is disrupted? In a crisis, those who cannot be informed through regular media channels are particularly disadvantaged. It’s about people in our society who speak a completely different language. We live in Kerala, where people speak Malayalam. My Malayalam skills would not be good enough to draw detailed information […]
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En cas de crise, ceux qui ne peuvent pas être informés par les canaux médiatiques normaux sont particulièrement défavorisés. Il s’agit d’un environnement social dans lequel une langue complètement différente est parlée. Nous vivons au Kerala, dans le sud de l’Inde, où les gens parlent principalement le malayalam. Mon malayalam n’est pas assez bon pour
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¿Qué sucede si se interrumpe el flujo de información? En una crisis, aquellos que no pueden ser informados a través de los canales de medios normales están particularmente en desventaja. Se trata de un entorno social en el que se habla un idioma completamente diferente. Vivimos en Kerala, en el sur de la India, donde
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Hunger: a crisis within a crisis I cannot stop thinking about the issue of hunger in the heavily populated African country of Nigeria. Despite the nationwide curfew, many panicked people took to the streets in Abuja. They are anxious about the lack of food. “Don’t lock us up, we get sick.”, they say. Peter
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El hambre como crisis El tema del hambre en Nigeria, uno de los países más poblados de África, no me abandona. A pesar del toque de queda en todo el país, hubo una protesta en Abuja por personas que temen morir de hambre. “No nos encierren, nos enfermaremos”. Peter Adeeko, graduado de Kanthari en 2017,
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La faim comme crise La question de la faim au Nigéria, l’un des pays les plus peuplés d’Afrique, ne me quitte pas. Malgré le couvre-feu à travers le pays, il y a eu une manifestation à Abuja de gens qui craignent la famine. “Ne nous enfermez pas, nous tomberons malades.” Peter Adeeko, diplômé de kanthari
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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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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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Worldwide, the year 2018 has experienced a quite turbulent start. With all the turmoil that many people are facing it is good to know that another batch of kantharis has returned home to make a positive impact in their communities. The jump “Run, jump and swim” this is the title of act 5, the start
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