A tribal community in this central state of India found out an option of sustainable development for themselves. Read their extra-ordinary success story…………… WHO states that ‘synthetic Urea and pesticides pose risks to human health and the environment. Children may have higher exposures and greater vulnerability due to exposure to pesticides. Synthetic Urea, on the other hand, […]

How the struggle of this extra-ordinary tribal woman in Madhya Pradesh brought together tribal community to break free from unawareness. For Sujatabai (name changed), it was never about winning elections or grabbing power. Her fondness to preserve the tribal culture she was born in, besides advocating equal rights for women, made her a “loved leader” […]

In today’s time and age, many children are forced to engage in labour works to support their families, and in the process their – right to life, to health, to education, to play, to be protected from violence and to not be discriminated – are lost. International Children’s Day on November 20th   “This year, […]

ACT Alliance and CASA are emphasising the need to involve women leadership at local and international levels to fight for climate justice. Watch out the message left by Dinesh Vyas from ACT member @casa for the #GenderDay at #COP22 @dinvyas pic.twitter.com/usLhZm34fe — ACT Alliance (@ACTAlliance) November 15, 2016 Speaking to ACT Alliance in Marrakech, CASA […]

After Sikkim becoming the India’s first organic state, a few children in this distant village of Madhya Pradesh are trying to address the rain-fed agricultural problems through organic farming. 15-year-old Anil Singh Teeka shows CASA Team how to make vermi-compost out of cow dung, cow urine, vegetable skins and earthworms. “You add dry leaves, organic […]

Artists and street performers comprising CASA volunteers from Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh gave away nukkad nataks and other shows propagating the importance of proper sanitation and hygienic practices in the country on Clean India Day, marked on October 2 to commemorate birth anniversary of Mahatama Gandhi who believed that “cleanliness is next to Godliness”. CASA participated […]

Kundan Sahu (62) believes that she must have committed sins in her previous life because of which she is getting this punishment. A 5th stage filariasis patient, Sahu believes that if she worships the Lord with full heart, she might get rid of the disease. But little does she know that she needed to prevent […]

The East India Company in late 1850s started to show interest in the production of CTC or black tea in Dooars region – particularly in Alipurduar (previously a part of Siliguri, but now a separate district) in northernmost part of West Bengal. Situated on the foothills of the Himalayas, the town is still a gateway […]

Santabai Warkade was an ordinary woman from an ordinary Adivasi (tribal) family until she joined Ekta Jan Sangathan. Exactly a back, her village people were dancing on the streets and garlanding Santabai as she had won the post of Sarpanch for Neempani Panchayat in Betul district. She had become the first ever Sarpanch to be […]