Every year the coastal areas of Odisha face the brunt of several cyclones developed over the Bay of Bengal. The life and livelihood of the people living near the coast experience heavy damage due to cyclonic storms, tsunamis, tides. Agriculture is one of the major occupations of the people, suffers a great deal of inconvenience and loss. For the vulnerable people of Ektal village in Sonepur District of Odisha, agriculture is the only source of livelihood

“Now we receive appreciation and support from our husbands and community. We are not dependent and need not ask our husbands money for our personal needs,” says Parvati, member of Aprilphool SHG in Chindbahar village of Chhattisgarh. Today, Parvati and 9 other women members from the SHG are successful entrepreneurs in the village making a living from tamarind business. Moreover, they are also expanding their business in the form of opening shops,

Dozens of green plants can be seen in line with equal distance using ridges and troughs practice at Satnithol Para, a small village in West Tripura. “I will continue to do organic farming as it brought changes in my life,” says Sukesh Santal, 52, a farmer from Satnithol Farmer’s Club from an Adivasi Community. He acknowledges the support of Jana Unnayan Samiti Tripura (JUST), a Caritas India partner for helping in getting the loan. He added,

Child trafficking is a serious problem that is prevalent especially in India. It is the children of the poor and marginalized communities who are often trafficked to be forced into labour.  In 2016, West Bengal reported the most children trafficked--3,113 or 34% of all--according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data. Of these, 86% or 2,687, were girls. In spite of India having stricter laws against child labour and trafficking yet, we see

Caritas India launched a food and nutrition security programme for helping the pandemic-hit marginalized communities of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh to combat chronic food and nutrition insecurity. Sanjivani will be implemented in 85 villages that are predominantly inhabited by Dalits and Adivasis in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh by eight partners. Addressing the orientation and launch workshop Bishop Sebastian Vadakkel highlighted the sad contradiction

Today, Agriculture is highly vulnerable to the impacts of disasters and other types of crises. According to a study, more than 22 per cent of the damages caused by natural hazards—such as drought, floods, storms or tsunamis. Focus on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) measures in agriculture is an important step to reduce the risk at the local level and develop the resilience of farmers natural hazards. The third priority of the Sendai Framework for

Support is growing between the countries to stop human trafficking across the borders. The incidences of Human Trafficking in Nepal have increased after the Covid-19 pandemic, the impact can be seen regularly at the borders between India and Nepal. A cross border interaction was called to learn and share the cross-border Human Trafficking experience with the duty bearers between Nepal and India. The objective of the meeting was to strengthen the

While considering the criticality of food production and human livelihood, pollination is a keystone process in both human managed and natural ecosystems. Especially, in agro-ecosystems, pollinators are essential for orchard, horticultural crops and food production and also in the production of seed for many root and fibre crops. More than 75% of the major world crops and 80% of all flowering plant species rely on animal pollinators. Out of the hundred