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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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Mollifying the severe repercussions of the COVID-19 lockdown
29 Jul 2020
“The nationwide lockdown was imposed when I arrived in Shimla … No one has been employing domestic help or labour … How should I feed and sustain myself without work? Moreover, I have a 12 years old daughter. How should I bring her up?” shares Gyanti Devi, a 38 years old migrant worker and an […]
The Place they call Home
22 Jul 2020
The lockdown imposed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic has uncovered the latent class inequalities prevalent in the country. It has brought forth the living conditions of many people, each replete with its challenges and trials. Janki Devi is a 43-year-old migrant worker. Originally hailing from Jodhpur, Rajasthan, she along with her family migrated to Bosari, […]
An endeavour to provide a secured source of sustenance
21 Jul 2020
“I still didn’t find work when the lock down was declared at the outbreak of the pandemic. I was left trapped in the city. The situation kept getting worse with each passing day. My savings were depleting and by the month of May, I had exhausted every resource of survival.” Jitendra is a 26 […]
The Succour to her Lost World
8 Jul 2020
The lockdown and the pandemic have affected different sections of the society and have particularly rendered the migrant population helpless. One such story is that of Bhuri Adivasi, a 36-year-old migrant worker from Chhattarpur, Madhya Pradesh. Along with her family, she has been working as a contract labourer for the past 3 years in Dharwad, […]
IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS ON FOREST-DWELLING COMMUNITIES
14 Jun 2020
“I traversed 12 to 13 kilometres on foot, through the forests, to reach the villages which the Chakma tribe had inhabited. The path to reach the region was unmetalled and muddy. When I first arrived in a village called Tedangnala, I saw that the majority of the households had lack of access to basic necessities. […]
The Snake Charmers that lost their sway
27 May 2020
Saura is a tribal community that mainly resides in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh. They were labeled as one of the ‘criminal tribes’ under Criminal Tribes Act,1871, and are still suffering from social stigma and ostracism in modern times. However, most of the members of the Saura community are struggling to get the status […]
Hundreds of people lost their lives, thousands of them lost their homes and lakhs were directly affected
26 May 2020
At a high wind speed of 185 kmph, cyclone Amphan left a trail of destruction on the coastal regions of Odisha and West Bengal. Sundarbans delta – a UNESCO site in West Bengal has been annihilated by ferocious windstorms. Mud houses have been toppled and trees have been uprooted, causing much distress to the inhabitants. […]
BRIDGING BACK TO SCHOOL
28 Feb 2020
Anusha and Rama, the Unbiological Sisters, as they were known, dust their school bags to resume school after 3 years. Sunburns, deep bruises, rough wounded hands, and sore blisters had ripped out a part of their childhood just like a bandage, ripped from a fresh wound. By Nidhi Joshi Intern – CASA Communications ”We still […]
‘CASA is as old as the freedom of India’
12 Jul 2019
CASA returns to its old project area Damal Asim village in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills District where it implemented its development programme from 1986-2005 and in partnership programme from 2005-2015. A glance at how our interventions changed lives. Sitting on the porch of his house, 87 year old Pardon B Marak remembers the time when […]
