CED Activity Reports
By & for NGOs
Signs of The Times
CED Activity Reports
By & for NGOs
Signs of The Times
| News from the field [updated on 8th March 2008]
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SPRAT - Society for Promotion of Rational Thinking - works in Gujarat, India, in two directions: sensitizing people toward communal harmony, rational thinking and scientific temper, and for empowering the impoverished.
To raise funds we wish to make a presentation to potential donors but are not adept at fund raising. In the wake of post-Godhra disturbances we plunged into work with our own funding. In due course, some good Samaritans chipped in but as the work expanded we need greater support.
Can you please connect us to potential donor institutions and individuals urgently? Also, during the Ramadan Muslims give away Zakawt [charity]. If you can kindly supply IDs of Muslim brethren we will write to them explaining our work. And, personally, if you care to know about our work please ask.
Jaiva Sanketh is a new initiative in Bangalore offering a platform through ‘JAIVA’ - an outlet for organic living.
Isn’t it high time that we said no to synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilisers. Don’t we have a right to eat food free from poison? Should we legitimate the distribution of the seeds of poison by consuming it? Do we and our future generations have a right to remain healthy?
This is no appeal to action. It is an information on how Dalit resurgence is taking place in a micro situation. It can happen also across the country.
On 19 September 2004 at Veerabommanahalli in Sira Taluk of Tumkur District the entire dominant caste people and ploughed the cultivated land of the Dalits as Dalits refused to join the dominant castes in their celebration of Ganesh (the elephant faced god). The Dalts rang up immediately both of us and asked us to rush to the village and save them. We refused to go. We told them to contact our local leaders in Sira and resolve the issue ...
Urgent Appeal from Jansahyog relief
This is an urgent
appeal for your support to the Jansahyog Relief (people-to-people
relief) efforts that provide food-grains, sheets for temporary shelter
and other
humanitarian relief to those displaced by the Sardar Sarovar dam on the
Narmada, and still
without rehabilitation, struggling for rights and survival.
This year we celebrated the Festival of the Dalit Woman on 03 June in almost the entire District. Each Taluk organized the Festival in different ways. There were public meetings with a lot of celebration, there were meetings in big halls etc. The restoration of the primacy of women in general and of Dalit women in particular will spell the beginning of the liberation of human society.
Invitation to participate in the National Level Foundation Program - Principles of livelihoods Enhancement and second Program - Management Appreciation Program for Livelihood Practitioners.
Our land struggle - People's Action For Rural Awakening
17th October is World Livelihood Day. And nearly two months before we (People's Action For Rural Awakening, Ravulapalem, East Godavari Dt.)) had decided that today in all the districts we work we will appropriate land for the poor especially the dalit bahujans.
A note on the Booshakthi Kendra
Jothi and M.C.Raj say that "One has to visit this place to believe what Dalit minds and hands can achieve. For all the work only Dalits were there." ... Read this article
