Category Archives: Childhood and children

Health and nutrition: Creating awareness among Adivasi children – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 22/05/2013 by website administrator

To read the entire report and view more photos, click here >> In the 1980s, the tribal people in our region came together and set up a group called the AMS. At that time malnutrition was a serious problem among tribal people … Continue reading →

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Nirmala Putul: A Santal poet questioning ‘development’ and ‘progress’ in modern civilization

Posted on 22/05/2013 by website administrator

Mountain Child by Nirmala Putul The mountain child — a fragment of the mountain — plays in the lap of the mountain Toddling up the mountain he plants his feet in the mountain soil to rise like a mountain in … Continue reading →

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Lending a voice to the nation’s indigenous population: Adivaani, a trust that publishes books written by Adivasis – Jharkhand and West Bengal

Posted on 19/05/2013 by website administrator

Garima Mishra, Indian Express New Delhi, Sat Apr 27 2013 | Read the full article >> “Why don’t we have an Adivasi voice?”, “Why don’t we have a ‘for and by’ Adivasi publishing house?”, “Where is the authentic Adivasi narrative?” … Continue reading →

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Video | Hul Sengel: The Spirit of the Santal Revolution (1855) – Jharkhand

Posted on 13/05/2013 by website administrator

Watch a film produced on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Santal Hul ["Santal revolution" of 1855-56] >> Director and Producer: Daniel J. Rycroft, University of East Anglia Co-Director: Joy Raj Tudu (Indian Confederation of Indigenous & Tribal People) Co-Producer: D. … Continue reading →

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Call for providing children’s literature in Jharkhand’s endangered tribal languages: Sahitya Akademi’s seminar – Ranchi

Posted on 07/05/2013 by website administrator

The Telegraph, Kolkata, November 28 , 2012 Eight languages spoken by tribals of Jharkhand are among the world’s endangered list of 1,763, including 171 in India, according to a Unesco report. In this context, Sahitya Akademi, which hosted a two-day … Continue reading →

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Adivaani Trust: Kolkata-based publishing house for Adivasi literature – West Bengal

Posted on 30/04/2013 by website administrator

Call for Support: Adivaani—Publishing the Adivasi Voice Adivaani is a new publishing house from Kolkata, which describes itself as a response to the  endangered Adivasi cultural and historical heritage. For long, mainstre am publishing in India has neglected the documentation and publication … Continue reading →

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Learning how to use video in rural education: A documentary made by Adivasi pupils in Gudalur (Nilgiri mountains) – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 07/04/2013 by website administrator

Recently we learnt how to shoot and edit films using video cameras and softwares, and now we are doing interviews with the people in our villages. Teachers and pupils of the school run by the Viswa Bharati Vidyodaya Trust belong to all … Continue reading →

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Our trip to the Adivasi festival in Ranchi: School blog about an excursion from the Nilgiri mountains of Tamil Nadu to Jharkhand in central India

Posted on 07/04/2013 by website administrator

[...] This week, our blog is coming to you from the students of Class 9. [...] In order, you can see (back row left-right) Tariq (one of our supervisors), Srudilaya, Prasad, Mridul, Priya (one of our teachers), then (front row … Continue reading →

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Storytelling and local history in tribal school curriculum: Gudalur region (Nilgiri) – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 07/04/2013 by website administrator

March 27th, 2013  [...] A few of us have been busy over the last few weeks. We are trying to find ways to share stories of our local history with other in our school and family. For many years, the … Continue reading →

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Missing school in spite “very good laws” for child protection: Unicef – Meghalaya

Posted on 06/04/2013 by website administrator

By GARDINER HARRIS, nytimes.com, February 25, 2013 Slideshow >> “We have very good laws in this country,” said Vandhana Kandhari, a child protection specialist at Unicef. “It’s our implementation that’s the problem.” [...] Meghalaya lies in India’s isolated northeast, a stump … Continue reading →

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Implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act poses the biggest challenge for the education system of India – United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education

Posted on 06/04/2013 by website administrator

Dr. Kishore Singh, Foundation Day Lecture, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, 5th March 2012 New Delhi [...] Monitoring the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, enacted by Parliament in August … Continue reading →

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Towards administrative mechanisms that meet the requirements of the Indian Constitution and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – National Commission for Protection of Child Rights

Posted on 05/04/2013 by website administrator

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) was set up in March 2007 under the Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005, an Act of Parliament (December 2005). The Commission’s Mandate is to ensure that all Laws, … Continue reading →

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Shivaratri celebrations by the Kota community in the Nilgiri mountains – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 04/04/2013 by website administrator

View a video and two slideshows taken during Shivaratri, the main annual festival celebtrated by the Kota community Video | Kota women’s dance Video | Kota dance Slideshow | Kota dance and music Slideshow | Kota game More videos, slideshows and background information provided … Continue reading →

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Slideshow | Community screening of documentary “Have you seen the Arana?” in Gudalur – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 30/03/2013 by website administrator

Bangalore-based filmmaker Sunanda Bhat was invited by ACCORD for a community screening of her award winning documentary ”Have you seen the Arana?” on 24 March 2013 in Gudalur. Her audience comprised students, their teachers and other members of the different Adivasi communities of … Continue reading →

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Slideshow | World Forestry Day school celebration in the western ghats of Kanyakumari district – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 25/03/2013 by website administrator

Photos: courtesy S S Davidson © 2013 Tribal Foundation (Nagercoil) The Hindu, NAGERCOIL, March 22, 2013 Forests were the lungs of the earth and global warming and its attendant climate change needed to be dealt with in this context, said environmental educator … Continue reading →

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Adivaani “the Adivasi voice”: A publishing house for India’s indigenous population – West Bengal

Posted on 24/03/2013 by website administrator

June 12, 2012 Who is adivaani Ruby Hembrom I believe not everyone is meant to do just one thing in life, I certainly am not. My 8 years of work experience in the Legal field, the Service Industry, the Social Development … Continue reading →

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Tribal children instill change in their communities: overcoming domestic violence and oppression of women – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 18/03/2013 by website administrator

SARAH ELIZABETH WEBB, The Hindu, February 16, 2013 I have been patient — tolerant even — of the constant threat of sexual harassment that comes with travelling as a Western Woman. I anticipated it and took precautions by dressing conservatively and … Continue reading →

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Slideshow | Inauguration of new Hostel facilities for Santal school children by Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati – West Bengal

Posted on 12/03/2013 by website administrator

Photos: courtesy Boro Baski, Ghosaldanga Bishnubati Adibasi Trust © 2012 On 9th December 2012 Prof. Sushanta Dattagupta, Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, inaugurated the new girls’ hostel at the Rolf Schoembs Vidyashram (RSV) school in Ghosaldanga. Senior hostel students performed a traditional Santal dance. The … Continue reading →

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Kanavu (The Dream) – video documentary by thirdeyefilms

Posted on 12/03/2013 by website administrator

This documentary tells the story of Kanavu (a commune of aadivasi children) in Wynad district in Kerala. The production started in 1998 and the film was completed in 2001. Date Visited: 12-3-13 Original video website More about Kanavu: press snippet … Continue reading →

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Alcohol and drug-awareness group, political leaders and women activists worried: Increased alcoholism in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

Posted on 11/03/2013 by website administrator

What’s the price of the ‘right’ to alcohol? By Mari Marcel Thekaekara, New Internationalist, March 8, 2013 While successive governments have patted themselves on their backs, each claiming credit for our galloping economy, India refuses to talk about the enormous social costs to … Continue reading →

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The Status of Tribal Children in India: A historical perspective – UNICEF Working Paper Series Children of India

Posted on 03/03/2013 by website administrator

Brief excerpts from the IHD – UNICEF Working Paper Series, Children of India: Rights and Opportunities. Read the full report (PDF) >> By Virginius Xerox, Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University 2. Status of Tribal Children  On the eve of Independence, … Continue reading →

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Orissa tribal girl Sanjukta Pangi represents India at the J8 international youth summit in Rome – Odisha (Orissa)

Posted on 01/03/2013 by website administrator

S T Beuria, Deccan Herald, Bhubaneswar, 1-3-2013 The tribal dominated backward Orissa district of Koraput, which had always remained in news for wrong reasons like acute poverty and increasing naxal activities, is in the spotlight now for a completely different reason … Continue reading →

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Video | Hanmi: A Treasure Trove of Oral Heritage – Karnataka

Posted on 23/02/2013 by website administrator

Published on Oct 13, 2012 Hanmi is the one of the few artists who has mastered the oral epic songs and other verbal art. She belongs to Gamokkalu tribe from Uttara Kannada district Karnataka. Sadly now Hanmi is the only … Continue reading →

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Video | A workshop for tribal children by Balu Diwa – Warli artist from Maharashtra

Posted on 06/02/2013 by website administrator
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The Shola Trust Gudalur – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 05/02/2013 by website administrator

NGO Profile – Sanctuary Asia magazine February 2011: In Gudalar, at the edge of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, a small committed group of volunteers work to protect India’s shola forests – a mosaic of montane evergreen forests and grasslands found … Continue reading →

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