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Happy New Year, This Year’s Gandhi Legacy is Underway!
Happy New Year to all of our friends, old and new! This year’s Gandhi Legacy Tour is just starting its 4th day, with images and notes streaming in from several social media sources. We will gather and post them here as we discover them! Day 2 – The children of AVANI assemble to meet and greet our travelers in Kolhapur – always a special day for the children entrusted in our care! The Gandhi ‘ Legacians’, as Tushar Gandhi calls our distinguished group of Legacy travelers, inspect the brickyards where many children (and parents) work under squalid bonded labor conditions – and listen to Anuradha Bhosale, Kolhaphur’s ‘Bandit...
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Namaste Friends, Enjoy attached 2013 New Year Gandhi Calendar! Gandhi Calendar 2013 from Gandhi Legacy Tour | Gandhi Calendar 2013 Lynnea Bylund is managing director of Gandhi Legacy Tours, Director of Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute, founder of Catalyst House and has nearly three decades of experience in administration, marketing and business development. She was a nationally recognized spokeswoman for the emerging alternative video and information delivery industries. She has a degree in holistic health-nutrition from the legendary and controversial health educator and activist Dr. Kurt Donsbach, she is the founder of two not-for-profit small business-based...
Read MoreGandhi’s Second Son: Manilal Gandhi Remembered on his Birthday
Source: ArunGandhi.net Today was the birthday of Manilal Gandhi, Arun Gandhi’s late father and the second son of M.K. Gandhi. Here is a brief look at Manilal’s own life and legacy drawn from a few select sources: Listen to a 1954 interview w/ Manilal Gandhi Manilal Mohandas Gandhi (28 October 1892 – 4 April 1956) was the second of four sons of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi. Manilal was born in Rajkot, India. In 1897 Manilal traveled to South Africa for the first time, where he spent time working at the Phoenix Ashram near Durban. After a brief visit to India, in 1917 Manilal returned to South Africa to assist in printing the Indian Opinion a...
Read MoreBarefoot College Spreads Knowledge to Africa
At a time of increasing involvement with decentralized rural energy systems particularly solar energy, such a system of training barefoot solar engineers can prove very useful in increasing the self-reliance of rural communities in installing and maintaining solar energy systems. Barefoot College’s Bunker Roy at TED – It’s an unexpected scene that you come across in the dusty plains of Kishangarh block in Rajasthan’s Ajmer district — women from several African countries being trained by their Indian sisters to become barefoot solar engineers. Welcome to the world of solar energy in Tilonia village. Here the campus of Barefoot College has...
Read MoreThe Bandit Queen* of the Social Movement
Anuradha Bhosale, the Bandit Queen* of the Social Movement is the famous human rights activist of Kolhapur India who co-founded the AVANI organization in 1995 to defend underprivileged women and children. AVANI means Food-Clothing-Shelter. Anuradha’s AVANI School rescues Indian children from forced labor brickyards and sex trafficking and provides them with food and educational nourishment and provides them with the sense of belonging to a community, which they may never have had before. AVANI is one of the organizations we visit on the Gandhi Legacy Tour. Guest post by: Dr. Sunilkumar Lavate, Principal, Mahaveer College, Kolhapur *[EDITOR’S NOTE:...
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