Tuesday,May,21,2013

Anuradha Bhosale and the Untouchable Revolution

Anuradha Bhosale BE

Guest post by: Missy Crutchfield and Melissa Turner Founding Editors | Be Magazine | www.bemagazine.org India has the largest number in the world of children not in school. Like the carpetbaggers of John Steinbeck’s classic novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” migrant laborers travel with their families across the Indian countryside in search of work. They set up [...]

Bapu’s Birthday sees Prep for Gandhi Center Expansion

Scott Kafora

Scott's video below shows the work that was taking place to prepare for the next phase of development of the first (of many!) Gandhi Center for Learning. This is a moderately large video file size and is 5-1/2 minutes long. It is best viewed after it downloads completely to your monitor. Guest Post from photo-journalist and [...]

Vote Now! YouTube Good Work Contest

Good Work Video Contest

YouTube is rewarding creatives for doing good work for good causes with their Good Work contest. We have produced a 60-second video that looks at the Good Work of Anuradha Bhosale and Avani at the Kolhapur Brick Kilns, empowering women and feeding and teaching children and rescuing them from forced labour. Produced by myself and shot [...]

America to Kolhapur: A Mahatma Gandhi inspired Journey

Gandhi DNA News

GWEI Directors Anuradha Bhosale, Jean Williams, and Scott Kafora were just featured in the DNA Mumbai news! ———- From America to Kolhapur: The journey Mahatma Gandhi inspired By Mohsin Mulla | DNA News | Friday, Aug 27, 2010 Over 60 years after he died, father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi continues to find followers globally. [...]

Gandhi Institute Efforts against Child Trafficking Highlighted in BBC Special Report

Gandhi for Children

Gandhi organization’s efforts to combat forced child labor and trafficking will be one of the featured examinations on this week’s BBC World News – the Fast Track series. View BBC report here – Gandhi’s grandson helps India’s poor August 12, 2010 / Wauconda, IL / Dr. Arun Gandhi, President of the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute [...]

Progress Report from Jean Williams

Here is the latest report from Jean Williams. Good wishes.  — Arun —————————– Editor’s Note: Revised/Updated 4/8/2011 To the GWEI Board – Besides concentrating on the early phases of design, we would like to to share examples of other undertakings of involvement with the Avani School. Scott has illustrated the information I collected and compiled. [...]