Most people believe geographical information system (GIS) is a mapping system, but today it has become a strategic tool for decision-making. The scope of GIS has evolved in all aspects of life, whether it is navigation, business, housing, urban planning, agriculture, land use, or disaster management. Like every field, geospatial data is important in social work to plan, implement, and evaluate. Caritas Institute for Development Action and Learning

Caritas India initiated the Assam Chapter of the Surokhit Shaishav programme to promote safe childhood in the state from April 19–21, 2023, at Seva Kendra Silchar, Assam. Recently, the programme has been expanded to Assam and Uttar Pradesh, focusing on reducing child labour, child marriage, and child trafficking and enhancing education as a cross-cutting component of the programme. Surokhit Shaishav is a unique programme that works towards the

The number of kids attending Anganwadi centres has increased. The colourful pictorial charts featuring alphabets, fruits, flowers, animals, vehicles, body parts, and numerals are attracting more children to the anganwadi. The children now have new learning and sports materials for their outdoor and indoor games. Children are learning quickly; today they can read and write both Hindi and English alphabets, numbers, and plant, animal, and flower names.

For three straight days, campaigners of Ashakiranam Cancer Care reflected on their cluster-level progress to plan the roadmap for its future intervention in Kerala to fight cancer. At the cluster review meeting on April 12th, 13th, and 14th, 2023, the campaigners from Tellicherry for the North Cluster, Vijayapuram for the Central Cluster, and Alleppey for the South Cluster, respectively, gathered to support the existing partners in sustaining the

With a coastline of 1962 km, surrounded by water on all sides, it will not be untrue to term the Andamans and Nicobars as “Thirsty Islands”. The rapid rise in the sea level, coastal erosion and saline water intrusion has affected the availability and accessibility of potable water for these island populations. Even with copious rainfall, the geological formations and proximity of hills to the sea contribute to low percolation levels for groundwater

In an environment where an incident has the potential to spark a massive human conflict, some are focusing on bringing peace and harmony through dialogue. This week, Suchetna Samaj Sewa Sansthan Bareilly and Social Work Society Lucknow, both under the Caritas India Samvaad programme, hosted a dialogue with the interfaith leaders for peacebuilding. The dialogue aimed to sensitise the community and the stakeholders, through the interfaith leaders,

A virus that originated in a small corner of Africa, HIV has left its footprints all over the world and is practically a pandemic. People affected by the virus face unremarkable challenges from physiological to social and economic. Hence People Living with HIV (PLHIVs) deserve a variety of services such as medical attention, counselling, treatment for opportunistic infections, health maintenance, in-home care, etc. They are aided in creating assets

Mayawati Devi reached her lowest ebb when she decided to cross the boundaries of her house to earn extra income for her children. The 40-year-old was a homemaker in Akhiyatpur village in the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, barely surviving with her husband and four daughters in agriculture. Her husband was jobless even after completing motor mechanic training. The future of the children was bleak. Mayawati is one of many who face such issues