Our Correspondents in the South

Update: Friday 19 March 2010

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Diaporama - Henri’s vision of Kora-PRD and Senegal

Here you will find photos of Henri’s stay with Kora-PRD, Senegal. For further information on the Freres des Hommes/Kora-PRD activity programmes: Senegal - Working with artisan woodworkers
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Portrait - From India to Peru, only one step for Iuna Rolland

You can hear the chink of Iuna Rolland’s Indian bracelets wherever she goes. Upon finishing a degree in sociology in Rennes, 22 year-old Iuna spent six months travelling around India. Attracted by the “shimmering colours of the saris", she discovered a country that was as fascinating as it was suffocating, where the cultural divide required constant adaptation. “The number of people is overwhelming, the towns are noisy and beggars are everywhere”, she recalls. In Delhi, one of the largest (...)
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Farming, motorbikes and Gandhi: Returning from India, Elise reflects on her time there

A month has passed since my return from India…the time to relive the rich and intense experience that I had there has arrived. In working with the Tamil Nadu team of Ekta Parishad in the district of Nagapattinam, the district most affected by the tsunami in 2004, I learnt a great deal about developmental field work. In 2005, Ekta Parishad began promoting agricultural biology among the marginal rural populations in the region, a sustainable development project that respects both man and the (...)
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