Come back from a volunteering workcamp with RUCHI in education field, Daniele thinks about the teachings of his experience, between work in schools and meetings with the local people: «Solidarity makes us freer people, because it gives us the obstinacy to do not give up in front of the ugliness of the world». One month and more passed since I came back in Italy from the volunteer camp with RUCHI,…
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I never knew the meaning of independence or freedom, says villager of Himachal by Ronald Rodrigues
Though we claim India to be a progressive nation, the principles, ideologies, culture, customs and practices of rural India speak otherwise. It might be well covered up but roots of a male dominant society exists in both developed urban areas and marginalised rural pockets despite continued efforts, awareness, information and education on secularism and gender equality. Women though not confined within four walls are somewhere facing social evils like early…
LACE for SDGs
Learning, Acting, Creating and Educating for Sustainable Development Goals” (LACE for SDGs) is an innovating project that aims to address and give solution to the issues that are mentioned in 17 SDGs by involving youth initiative through a complete cycle of raising awareness of SDGs, training course and project piloting and evaluating. The project mainly targets at youth, NGOs and the community, where youths live and struggle with problems in…
Clean India Campaign
Contributing to Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, RUCHI has initiated a campaign to educate school children and communities in 20 villages on health, hygiene and sanitation. We are collaborating with 10 schools and 20 SHGs of the area. All these schools and SHG are requested to collect their trash, segregate and put them at a central place. Every month we hire a truck and collect the trash from these collection points. After…
Dussehra Festival: 25 September-1 October 2017 workcamp in Dharamshala
Location: Dharamshala is a small village of Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh, 15 kilometres away from Kangra town itself. This village offers a number of trekking paths to tourists and a majestic view of great Dhauladhar range of mountains. But why is Dharamshala internationally well-known? Not only because it is a head quarter for Kangra district! In the surroundings of this village the Secretariat of Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama,…
Training Course under VolunTour Project
A training course on VolunTour project started at RUCHI from 20th March to 27th March, 2017. The training is a part of VolunTour Project under Erasmus + programme of European Union. 3 representatives of Combodia, Nepal and India along with representatives from Italy, Spain and Hungary are participating in the training. The training is a part of VolunTour Project under Erasmus + programme of European Union.
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Women on a war path demanding a ban on a shop selling liquor to adolescents
Below the Poverty Line and above The Trees
worldfolio aricle BELOW THE POVERTY LINE AND ABOVE THE TREES NOVEMBER 6, 2014 SOCIAL PROJECTS I landed in New Delhi on August 16th, ready to spend the following month at RUCHI, an NGO in the foothills of the Himalayas. Ready, excited, but also scared! I would be there only for one month, such a short time to be able to fit in and actually help. But for me it was…