Adventure Called Life -

More Pics!

Holi

before pic haha

pigs in the street

buying some fruit

womens meeeting

Cow

kids at the school

The store the women have at the Ashram

At the school :)

Yay, Im loving the internet here right now.. took me about 5min to upload some more pics..

Love, Johanna

2013-04-12 @ 08:20:52 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

Pics:)

The shop outside baif in warje where the women sell their own products

Amanda and Tone

Waiting for the other interns at the ashram, medical interns

on the train, one of the medical interns

very crowded on the train, ppl sleeping too lol

at a restaurant in Amonora, the mall

on our way home from a day at Amonora, waiting for the train

Erika and Tone trying on their sariis

our new place in the Ashram, the hangout room

the food we eat every day

nice pic taken by amanda

the dining area

outside the dining hall, that dog always sleep outside the building where his owner is

At Amonora

Ghandis grave, we went on a tour a couple of weeks ago

On our way to the temple, me and Amanda stayed behind haha too lazy to walk all those stairs and aparantly it wasnt any different from the rest of the temples we saw that day

Dining out

Tone anr Erika

The shisha place having fun

delicious food

India

on the bus into town

bbq nation at Amonora

Happy faces

There u go..I succeeded in uploading a few of the many pics on my computer.. Only 4weeks til I get to see yall in Sweden again ! :)

Love, Johanna

2013-04-12 @ 08:03:56 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

BAIF

Here is some information about BAIF, the organisation we are currently doing our internship at..

Its from one of their pamphlets:

BAIF Development Research Foundation is a reputable non-government organization with a strong comittment to uplift the poor and ethe weaker sections of rural India. The organization is comittted to sustainable Rural Development, Food Security and Clean Environment with network of 12 state level organisations spread throughout India. BAIF has been honored with vairous prestigious Awards at State. National and International level for remarkable contribution for sustenance of most deprived and disadvantaged sections of rural poors. BAIF`s innovative multidisciplinary programme on poverty allevation covering lifestock through promotion of dairy husbandry, watershed development, promotion of agri-horti-forestry on dry lands. Community health and empowerment of women through formation of self-help groups and promotion microenterprises, is benefitting over 2.79 million families from 55 000 villages in 12 states across the country, enabling them to enjoy sustainable livelihood and better quality of life, while addressing the Milenium Development Goals.

Water being the critical input for allevating poverty, several innovative approaches were adopted to promote watershed development and conserve soil and moisture for achievement of ensuring safe drinking water for local communities and enhancing agricultural production.

BAIF Development Research Foundation, Pune is enghaged in integrated watershed development programme in 9 states of the country since 1990 with the objective of developing models of sustainable development in resource degraded areas. The agri-horti-forestry programme for rehabilitation of tribal families, popularily known as wadi has been expanden in many states. Water resource development (WRD) is a key activity for nurturing the fruit trees. WRD and rain water harvesting approach is followed in wadi, NRM and agriculture development project.

we are divided into two groups, me, Michaela and Victoria are in the women empowerment groupd and Amanda, Tone and Eika are in the children and education group. We are here to learn and observe mostly but also do some fieldwork for an essay for the university and a project report for BAIF. I am writing from an Ashram created by Ghandi where we are trying to live healthy with daily yoga and healthy food, sometimes we get massages and we take walks :)

Love, Johanna

2013-04-08 @ 12:07:18 Permalink Allmänt Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()