“I was scared when the lockdown began as I was pregnant, and my delivery was due the following month. Unfortunately, my fears did come true when my delivery date arrived. The ambulance denied coming to my village. With a lot of difficulties, we managed to travel to the hospital through auto paying double than the usual charge. Post-delivery, I was sceptical about whether I should be breastfeeding my child or not due to fear of Corona. But thanks

“Agricultural growth is a proven driver of poverty reduction. When agriculture stimulates growth ... the growth is twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth based in other sectors”, said Giza Mdoe Around 60 partner staff associated with Jeevan EA, SABAL, WARM and Sanjivani project of Caritas India were empowered through a virtual workshop on Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) and Integrated Pest Management (IPM). “We need to consider

Human-centric society considers every natural resource for their selfish consumption. Humans are blindly exhausting the resources which are meant for every living creature. The problems of climate change, global warming, acid rain, floods, deforestation, long dry spells, droughts are the outcome of unethical exploitation of natural resources. Most conservation efforts start with big announcements, but it loses its momentums in due course of time

Noor Mohammaed stares out at the broken wall of his house, the bamboos supporting the walls are now missing and there are many holes surfaced on the roof. After 25 days of the cyclone, the house was destroyed in the Amphan Cyclone. He evacuated his house with his family as soon he received the early warning of the cyclone and moved to a safer cyclone shelter home where they stayed together with other 25 families in one room. The question of social

Every youth aspire for a better future and this aspiration moves them to look for opportunities to achieve this dream. In villages, where the scope of livelihood is narrow, the youth start looking towards cities to fulfil their dreams. Often these dreams have a grey side where they are lured and exploited in big cities. After some time, their dreams shatter and earning money to feed their family becomes their necessity. Parmanand Verma from village

Caritas India has launched its new vehicle campaign in Kerala to prepare communities across 310 Panchayat Wards to face the possible damages that may happen due to monsoon. As part of the campaign information on preventive aspects of COVID-19 is also disseminated. A pre-recorded standardized audio is played on spreading awareness on landslides, cyclones and floods that may happen due to monsoon and Covid-19 precautions. The vehicle will pass across

The national agricultural research system in India is mainly focusing on exploring and providing solutions to large scale agricultural producers that comprise only 22% of the farming sector. Smallholder requires a completely different set of solutions compared to larger producers. Especially in rain-fed areas, these diverse production systems have varied and distinct challenges for which top-down research has rarely led to improvements. There is

Cyclone AMPHAN made landfall in West Bengal on 20th May 2020 at about 2.30 pm (IST). The storm had weakened from a super cyclone to an extremely severe cyclonic storm and was the fiercest in 100 years to hit West Bengal (WB). National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the WB government facilitated in the evacuation of about five lakh people in West Bengal. An estimated storm surge of 5 m (16 ft) inundated a wide swath of coastal communities with