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AVANI and Gandhi for Children Update 2014
Originally Posted on the GWEI website: AVANI Eco-Dome Development Update 2014 AVANI is one of the stops on the Gandhi Legacy Tour of India For the Holiday and New Year we have a composite of images & notes relating to the AVANI Domes progress… Just in time for the monsoon rains last September, the exterior of the main dome structure at the five acre site was completed. The rains actually assisted in the curing and hardening process of the mud based plaster finish.* Registering for College Aruna and Mehndi glance at a copy of the college admissions paperwork for the school of science and math. Aruna will be the first AVANI student to continue with her...
Read MoreInterview with Anuradha Bhosale Part 2
Continuing from part one, my interview with Anuradha Bhosale, Kolhapur India activist, social reformer and local hero, shares additional deep insights and reflections with us. LB: What was the worst story of exploitation that you can share with us? AB: The worst story of exploitation has occurred in my own life. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law harassed me right from the beginning. I was ruthlessly used as a house maid by all of the in-laws numbering seven in all. I was working at that time with Verala Development Society (VDS) at Sangli town. That involved travelling every day 65 miles to and fro, office or field work from 11 to 6. Each day l reached home not...
Read MoreInterview with Anuradha Bhosale
Interview with Anuradha Bhosale of AVANI originally published at the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute Blog: AVANI is one of the stops the Gandhi Legacy Tour of India makes each year. Anuradha Bhosale is a highly cherished hero to thousands of impoverished children and their families. Ms Bhosale is a renowned grassroots women’s rights and anti-child labor activist based in Kolhapur, India where more than 35,000 children are involved in daily labor for local industries. A former child-laborer herself at the age of six, she has spent the past 20 years fighting for the prevention of child exploitation, labor, trafficking, and female infanticide. Anuradha Bhosale is a...
Read MoreTolstoy Farm and the Satyagraha House
photo: Gandhi Tolstoy Farm June 1912 – Gandhi, Kasturba and Sonia Schlesin (extreme right) June 9, 2014: We visited the Tolstoy Farm. Gandhi attributes the success of the final phase of the Satyagraha campaign in South Africa between June 4, 1908 and 1914 to the “spiritual purification and penance” afforded by the Tolstoy Farm. It became the home for supporters of the Satyagraha movement. It was a simple life. He wrote: “I have serious doubts as to whether the struggle could have been prosecuted for eight years, whether we could have secured larger funds, and whether the thousands of men who participated in the last phase of the struggle would...
Read MoreDay One in Durban South Africa
May 31, 2014 Opening day of the first Satyagraha Tour of South Africa, we paid a visit to the Durban Institute of Technology, a school attended by Steve Biko, leader of the Black Consciousness Movement. Ela Gandhi formerly served as Chancellor of this University and responsible for organizing the event. The occasion was an annual speech and essay contest for seventh graders throughout the Durban region. The students were offered the opportunity to present essays and/or speeches either in Zulu or English. We arrived a bit late, the competition was already in progress. Satish (the son of Arun and Ela’s oldest sister Sita Gandhi) handled the media coverage,...
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