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International Women’s Day -2021
8 Mar 2021
International Women’s Day -2021 is very special for CASA. It’s a delight to announce, CASA with the support of the Church of Sweden has launched an exclusive Gender Desk to emphasise the importance of Gender Justice work. CASA has been working for Gender Justice all throughout and across our constituencies in all these years. Gender Desk comes to add vigour […]
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Overcoming Gender and Poverty Barriers
Poverty has been an inevitable problem in India since the beginning of time. The increasing problems of poverty caused by overpopulation and the unequal distribution of wealth among the people have led to a huge impact on the life of millions in the rural as well as the urban area. A person has to acquire […]
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Impact of Climate Change on Women
16 Jan 2021
Climate change is a prevailing problem globally whose hazardous repercussions extend beyond the environment. Shrinking glaciers, extinction of plants and animal species, mutation, rise in the Earth’s average temperature and triggered seasonal fluctuations, are some of the impacts of climate change that have already grabbed the headline. Certain early predictions pertaining to climate changes had […]
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The World is changing, And so are Women in India’s hinterland
28 Feb 2017
The deep-rooted poverty in our social constructs hits the rural women and women-headed families the hardest. Lack of employment opportunities and pay disparity becomes a hindrance for them to achieve financial stability and a healthy life, and this leads to a situation where they have a very little say in the decision-making. According to […]
Cyclone Vardah Wreaks Havoc in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh
15 Dec 2016
According to media reports around 20 people have lost their lives so far. The impacts of the Super Cyclone was felt in Kanchipuram, Thiruvallur and Chennai districts, where Chennai has borne most of the brunt. All educations Institutions in Thiruvallur, Kanchipuram and Chennai districts remains closed for the 3rd consecutive day. Some shelters have been […]
‘Organic farming – because we were tired of struggle’
14 Dec 2016
A tribal community in this central state of India found out an option of sustainable development for themselves. Read their extra-ordinary success story…………… WHO states that ‘synthetic Urea and pesticides pose risks to human health and the environment. Children may have higher exposures and greater vulnerability due to exposure to pesticides. Synthetic Urea, on the other hand, […]
An Adivasi and a woman, and the need to protect her rights
7 Dec 2016
How the struggle of this extra-ordinary tribal woman in Madhya Pradesh brought together tribal community to break free from unawareness. For Sujatabai (name changed), it was never about winning elections or grabbing power. Her fondness to preserve the tribal culture she was born in, besides advocating equal rights for women, made her a “loved leader” […]
#InternationalChildren’sDay Child Labour Free Zone – a CASA initiative
18 Nov 2016
In today’s time and age, many children are forced to engage in labour works to support their families, and in the process their – right to life, to health, to education, to play, to be protected from violence and to not be discriminated – are lost. International Children’s Day on November 20th “This year, […]
#COP22 Road To Morocco: Climate Justice is Gender Justice
17 Nov 2016
ACT Alliance and CASA are emphasising the need to involve women leadership at local and international levels to fight for climate justice. Watch out the message left by Dinesh Vyas from ACT member @casa for the #GenderDay at #COP22 @dinvyas pic.twitter.com/usLhZm34fe — ACT Alliance (@ACTAlliance) November 15, 2016 Speaking to ACT Alliance in Marrakech, CASA […]
Children in this MP village are learning Organic Farming
15 Nov 2016
After Sikkim becoming the India’s first organic state, a few children in this distant village of Madhya Pradesh are trying to address the rain-fed agricultural problems through organic farming. 15-year-old Anil Singh Teeka shows CASA Team how to make vermi-compost out of cow dung, cow urine, vegetable skins and earthworms. “You add dry leaves, organic […]
A vision for ‘Swachh’ India
5 Oct 2016
Artists and street performers comprising CASA volunteers from Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh gave away nukkad nataks and other shows propagating the importance of proper sanitation and hygienic practices in the country on Clean India Day, marked on October 2 to commemorate birth anniversary of Mahatama Gandhi who believed that “cleanliness is next to Godliness”. CASA participated […]
I was born with God’s curse
24 Sep 2016
Kundan Sahu (62) believes that she must have committed sins in her previous life because of which she is getting this punishment. A 5th stage filariasis patient, Sahu believes that if she worships the Lord with full heart, she might get rid of the disease. But little does she know that she needed to prevent […]
