‘The Miracle on Sunderbaag Street’ won the Neev Book Award for the Emerging Reader category!
We are so pleased to share that one of our books, The Miracle on Sunderbaag Street, has just won the Neev Book Award for the Emerging Reader category!
This heartwarming and inspiring story was written by Nandita Da Cunha and beautifully illustrated by Priya Kuriyan .
Buy the book here: kalpavriksh.org/our-store OR write to us at [email protected]
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‘The Miracle on Sunderbaag Street’ won the Neev Book Award for the Emerging Reader category!
We are so pleased to share that one of our books, The Miracle on Sunderbaag Street, has just won the Neev Book Award for the Emerging Reader category!
This heartwarming and inspiring story was written by Nandita Da Cunha and beautifully illustrated by Priya Kuriyan .
Buy the book here: kalpavriksh.org/our-store OR write to us at [email protected]
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‘A New Home For Ajiri’ in The Hindu Young World
Our latest book for children: A New Home For Ajiri in the Hindu Young World
The book is about a moving story from Kachchh, written beautifully by Sandip Virmani and richly illustrated by Niloufer Wadia! The story of Ajiri, a chinkara fawn in Kachchh and her unusual friendships with a young boy, a young pastoralist girl and many camels!
To read the review: https://kalpavriksh.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/September-17-Bookworm-1.pdf
To place an order, please visit: kalpavriksh.org/our-store
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Palestine’s Beautiful Resistance: webinar
Alternatives in Pandemic Times: Resistance, Recovery and Re-Existence – a Webinar series
Palestine’s Beautiful Resistance: What it tells the world about building peace withinwith Abdelfattah Abusrour (Palestine)
Sunday 12th September – 13:30 (UTC/GMT): 7pm IST
Beautiful Resistance emerges from Palestine as a concept and philosophy that aims to inspire hope and promote life through performing and visual arts as non-armed ways for peaceful and creative self-expression. It helps to build peace within individuals, in turn to become peace-builders in their community and beyond.
More information and registration: https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars:2021:05
Direct access to the session: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2598651679…
About the presenters
Abdelfattah AbusrourAbdelfattah Abusrour is founder and director of Alrowwad Cultural and Arts Society, established in 1998 in Aida refugee camp-Bethlehem. His concept and philosophy “Beautiful Resistance”, using performing and visual arts, culture and education, is a creative and peaceful expression in situations of oppression and trauma to provide possibilities to save lives and inspire hope and build peace within individuals to be peace builders in their communities and beyond. Abusrour is an author, actor, and theatre director, with a PhD in Biological and Medical Engineering from France.
Abusrour is the first Ashoka fellow-Social Entrepreneur in Palestine, and he is a Synergos – social innovator fellow. He was elected president of Palestinian Theatre League and many other organizations. He has done conferences and practical workshops in different countries using Beautiful Resistance, to empower people through building peace within themselves, and be active change-makers, and instead of waiting for miracles to happen, be able to act and provoke miracles to happen..
Yousef Habache (Moderator)Directeur Général, Comités pour le Développement et le Patrimoine (CDP).
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Climate Crisis and Western Himalaya
Western Himalaya Vikalp Sangam welcomes you to a talk and discussion on ‘Climate Crisis and Western Himalaya’, which probes into the current global climate crises caused by the paradigm of destructive development and starts a dialogue on what this means for the already bioregion of Western Himalaya.
The speaker is Mr. Soumya Dutta, co-convener of South Asian People’s Action on Climate Crisis (SAPACC), the trustee of Movement for Advancing Understanding on Sustainability And Mutuality (MAUSAM), the executive member of Friends of the Earth-India, the trustee/board member of GreenPeace-India Environment Trust, the convener of Bharat Jan Vigyan Jatha (BJVJ) and the founding members of India-Climate-Justice (ICJ).
Date: 8th September 2021
Time: 5:00 pm
Zoom link:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88269893091
(No registration required)
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New Children’s Book is out – ‘A New Home For Ajiri’
Announcing our latest book for children: A New Home For Ajiri, a moving story from Kachchh, written beautifully by Sandip Virmani and richly illustrated by Niloufer Wadia! The story of Ajiri, a chinkara fawn in Kachchh and her unusual friendships with a young boy, a young pastoralist girl and many camels!
To place an order, please visit: kalpavriksh.org/our-store
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Maharashtra Protected Area Update, July 2021, No: 6 (Marathi)
Protected Area Update (July 2021) about Maharashtra in Marathi, to read the entire Newsletter, please click here.
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Vikalp Varta with Gram Vaani
| Innovative use of Technology during the Second Wave of Covid-19! Join the new Vikalp Varta 2.0 with Rohan Katepallewar, manager at Gram Vaani and Deepak Kumar, Senior Community Manager at Gram Vaani who share how they used technology to tackle Covid-19 in India! Date: Friday, 6th August 2021 Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm IST Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/VikalpVartaP202 (No Registration Required) About Gram Vaani Gram Vaani started in 2009 is a social tech company incubated out of IIT-Delhi. They use technology to create participatory media platforms that people find accessible and adaptable. Using simple technologies and social context to design tools, they have been able to impact communities- more than 3 million lives touched through 25+ district and partner platforms covering 20+ Indian states. Their platforms have also covered 5 countries beyond India – Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Namibia, South Africa. Brief note on Vikalp Varta – During the second wave of Covid Pandemic, Gram Vaani addressed a host of problems to tackle the crisis. They made efforts in 5 areas – Addressed the stigma and fear around covid through their Interactive Voice Response (IVR) lines and teleconsultation – Addressing the lack of awareness and covid appropriate behaviour through developing audio content in multiple languages based on technical advisories – Facilitating emergency support such as cash, transportation, ambulances, oxygen, etc. to people requesting help on their platform especially to those who do not have social security mechanisms – Deploying voice-based survey tools & registration systems for supporting vaccine registration, especially for those, who were unable to use smartphones or access the online vaccine registration systems themselves Envisioning an IVR system for monitoring and triaging of patients under home-care, to escalate in time any at-risk cases. |
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Webinar: “Salween Peace Park, Myanmar: Strengthening Karen People’s Resistance, Resilience and Response to Conflict and Covid-19 Crises”
| Alternatives in Pandemic Times: Resistance, Recovery and Re-Existence – a Webinar series Salween Peace Park, Myanmar: Strengthening Karen People’s Resistance, Resilience and Response to Conflict and Covid-19 Crises with Saw Paul Sein Twa and Naw Wah Ku Shee Sunday 1st August – 14:00 (UTC/GMT) The Salween Peace Park is an initiative in Myanmar declared by Indigenous Karen people in December 2018 to bring peace, cultural harmony, self determination, and environmental integrity after 70 years of armed conflict in the region. However, the community continues to face threats from the Burmese military dictatorship. In this webinar, Saw Paul Sein Twa and Naw Wah Ku Shee talk about the experience of the Karen people working towards self determination, navigating a global pandemic, and facing a violent military offensive. More information and registration Direct access to the session About the presenters Saw Paul Sein Twa Paul is an indigenous Karen from Burma/Myanmar, co-founder and Director of the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)— a non-profit NGO, Member of the ICCA Consortium, dedicated to livelihood security and respect for the Indigenous Karen people in Burma/ Myanmar. Paul has worked for decades to better the conditions of his people, most recently as one of the main inspirers and key supporters of the self-proclamation of the Salween Peace Park by its custodian communities. The Salween Peace Park (SPP) is an emblematic territory of life of enormous importance for both nature and culture. It protects the last dam-free main river in Asia and 5,485 km2 of globally significant biodiversity. In 2020, the Salween Peace Park was awarded the Equator Prize. Naw Wah Ku Shee Naw Wah Ku Shee is a prominent Karen activist working to promote human rights, democracy and peace, with a focus on women and ethnic communities especially in conflict areas of Burma/Myanmar. She is currently director at Karen Peace Support Network (KPSN), the largest network of Karen community-based organisations. She is also a member of the Karen Women’s Organisation’s Steering Committee, with a membership of over 60,000, working to empower women in the struggle for peace and gender equality and for a federal democratic Burma. Our past webinar sessions videos are available in this link. Global Tapestry of Alternatives [email protected] To subscribe and get our updates, visit this link |
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Pastoral Communities’ Territories of Life in Asia; Tales of Coexistence of Nature and People
| Virtual workshop about Rangelands and Pastoralism in Asia Rangelands and pastoralism are essential for millions of people around the world, providing or contributing to livelihoods, food security, and cultural identity. Around half of the Earth’s land surface is rangeland. As rangelands are often among the harshest of environments, many pastoral communities have adopted a seasonal migration lifestyle in their ancestral territories in order to increase their resilience to natural challenges and simultaneously to sustain natural resources. As the late Dr Taghi Farvar regularly noted, “the migratory practices of indigenous peoples are almost always de facto nature conservation strategies”.To acknowledge the vital roles of rangelands and pastoralism for human wellbeing and nature conservation and to support and bring greater recognition to the upcoming International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) in 2026, a virtual workshop is scheduled for July 16, 2021, on Pastoral Communities’ Territories of Life in grasslands/rangelands across Eurasia.The workshop is co-hosted by the ICCA Consortium, the ICCA-GSI, GEF SGP (UNDP), and collaboration of Regional IYRP Support Groups (RISGs) for the IYRP 2026: East Asia, South Asia, Middle East, and Central Asia & Mongolia. The high-level objectives of this inaugural special event are to establish an Asia-wide Learning Network on rangelands and pastoralism, particularly in relation to local and indigenous pastoral communities’ Territories of Life, and to promote the IYRP 2026.The specific objectives of this one-day special event are the following: To share experiences (best practices, key challenges) on rangelands and pastoral communities’ territories of life/ ICCAs from across Asia To declare support for the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralism (IYRP) To determine key topics, format, and timing for follow-up events and other actions To commemorate the life, work and vision of Dr M. Taghi Farvar During this event participants will contribute toward the planning of a series of workshops in Asia to further advance the above objectives and enhance enabling environments that promote and strengthen the role of territories of life / ICCAs in the conservation of nature at various levels.Dr M. Taghi Farvar (1942-2018) was a pioneer in bringing to light the collective conservation capacities of indigenous peoples and local communities. Throughout his life, he defended their collective rights over their territories, and sought to influence relevant policies at national and international levels. An account of Dr Farvar’s life and achievements is available at https://www.iccaconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Mohammad-Taghi-FARVAR-24-July-2018-1.pdf The workshop will be held on July 16, 2021 from 16:00-20:00 ULAT (check local times here). The workshop will be held on Zoom. To register, please follow this link: https://bit.ly/iccaiyrpThe deadline for the registration is 15 July 2021. For any queries, please write to [email protected] |
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