A household is sustained by a husband and his wife. One day, while the husband had gone to work, his 12 relatives suddenly arrived at their house. How will the wife respond to such a situation?” The question was posed to the participants from the Northeast, Bihar, Odisha and West Bengal regional forum and Partner organizations attending capacity-building training on Contingency Plan and Emergency Response Protocol on 13th and 14th September 2022

“Education is very important for them to have a better job, career and good future,” says Lalimma Mathew, a 60-year-old migrant from Kerala and a volunteer teacher for the migrant workers’ children. Lalimma joined Pravasi Bandhu, a migrant support programme with two other volunteers and gave non-formal education support to vulnerable migrant children at Mansover park Delhi and Gurgaon construction sites. Government schools are normally far

Building the community’s capacity in identifying and addressing risks of Human Trafficking and enabling them to assist vulnerable populations are the focus of the ‘Unsafe Migration & Combating Human Trafficking’ workshop held at Sarupathar, Assam on 13th September 2022. The day brought together stakeholders from across the public and private sector including Mondols, PRI members, Student Associations, SHG leaders, Health workers, the Transport

As much as 30% of the increase is recorded in food crops among households of the Sanjivani programme. The programme addresses the hunger and malnutrition issues among children, adolescents, and expectant and lactating mothers of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. These achievements were presented during the review and reflection meeting of Sanjivani during 12-13 September 22 at Atmadarshan Prerana Sadan Indore MP. Altogether 21 participants, including Assistant

Gonds are one of the largest tribal groups in India, spread across different states of the country including Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh. Recognised as a “primitive tribal community”, Gonds still live by hunting and depend on forest produce and agriculture to feed themselves and earn a livelihood.  59-year-old Mr. Gangaram Pusam belongs to the scheduled tribe caste and

The southern state of Kerala has seen a significant surge of migrant workers in recent years. Although earlier the migrant population in Kerala constituted of seasonal workers from the neighbouring states such as Tamil Nadu and Karnataka there has been an influx of people from Assam, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa and other Northeastern states as well. This presence is also discernible in Kerala’s labour market where Malayalam is no

As quoted by Ronald Burt “Instead of Better glasses, your network gives you better eyes” Our recent visit to Europe indeed widened our visioning and perspectives. It was an experience of unlearning and learning, deliberating and sharing, focusing on the rising trends and invariably harnessing our partnership to remain more focused towards a socio-ecological sustainable change. The brief journey concludes with a gratitude-filled with appreciation

In a training program in New Delhi, Caritas India and Catholic Relief Services assess the partner organisations’ capacity enhancement needs for designing improvement plans for building local leadership in emergency response. Organised under the Caritas Institute of Development, Action and Learning (CIDAL), the training for the Emergency Response Capacity Assessment and improvement plan was done for the partners of the Northeast, Odisha, Bihar and