Ms. Anuradha Bhosale graduated from the Tata School of Social Sciences and decided to educate children living in the slums of Kolhapur, 200 miles south of Bombay (Mumbai). She found that the children could not come to a school because they had to work during the day to supplement the parent's income. Note: THIS is […]
Is Child Marriage a Form of Trafficking?
May 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Source: India RealTime Days before law professor Michele Goodwin was set to speak in Chicago about why child marriage persists widely in India despite almost a century of legislation, a heart-warming story made the rounds. Laxmi Sargara, an 18-year-old who was married to another child when she was a baby, rebelled when her in-laws came […]
New Delhi child slave scandal is an outrage!
April 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Last week, a 13-year-old maid was found screaming on a balcony after the couple she worked for locked her in the apartment while they went on vacation. The girl was sold to a job placement agency by her uncle and worked for the two doctors for free while being underfed and beaten. UNICEF reports India […]
Satyagraha and Gandhi’s Salt March
April 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Source: Catalyst House Blog In early March of 1930, in order to help free India from British control, Mahatma Gandhi proposed a non-violent protest march denouncing the British Salt Tax, continuing Gandhi's national calls for civil disobedience. Before embarking on the 240-mile journey from Sabarmati to Dandi, Gandhi sent a letter to the the British […]
Anuradha Bhosale to Attend U.S. Gatherings
April 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Soon Anuradha Bhosale will travel from India to the U.S. to attend meetings and other gatherings in Chicago, Rochester NY, and California for the express purpose of raising awareness in continuing support for the GWEI-AVANI Child Education Residence in Kolhapur India. During her visit stateside,scheduled for June of this year, Ms. Bhosale will speak […]
Unite to Light Donates Lights to AVANI
April 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Unite to Light is a not for profit 501 (c) (3) corporation dedicated to providing low cost lighting to those without electricity, and eliminating the health and environmental issues associated with existing light sources used by this population, such as kerosene. In doing so, we will allow children the opportunity to study in the evening. […]
Arun Gandhi in Port-Au-Prince Haiti
April 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti — Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, Arun Gandhi, visited Haiti on a goodwill tour the last week of March 2012. He spent his five-day tour visiting a camp operated by Sean Penn’s J/P Haitian Relief Organization, leading a workshop with community leaders at Viva Rio, as well as talking with leaders from the United Nations […]
Anuradha Bhosale and the Untouchable Revolution
April 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 tattered tents alongside highways or build small mud huts in the shadow […]
Be in India: The birthplace of Gandhi’s movement
March 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
2011 Gandhian Legacy Tour – Trip Report Gandhi led India to independence through a movement of nonviolence—something unprecedented. Gandhi once said, “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” This is easier said than done, but by his own life he showed it is not at all impossible. He wielded the […]
Gandhi Legacy & Development Tour
March 5, 2012 by 4 Comments
SATYAGRAHA TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA First Inaugural Tour Delegation May 2014 Arun Gandhi’s 80th Birth Anniversary (1934) Celebrated in Durban, Phoenix Settlement | Led by Arun Gandhi, Tushar Gandhi, apprentice Managing Director Lynnea Bylund Second Tour Delegation May 2015 | Led by Arun Gandhi and Lynnea Bylund Third Tour Delegation May 2018 | Arun Gandhi, Tushar […]
Anuradha Bhosale Nominated for Human Rights Award
February 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Global Exchange will award one People’s Choice honoree in 2012. The People’s Choice honoree will receive $1,000 in honor of their work and will be recognized at this year’s Human Rights Awards celebration on May 10, 2012. Please join us in voting for our very own Anuradha Bhosale, a renowned grassroots women’s rights and anti-child labor […]
Arun Gandhi Urges Nonviolence in Cornell Speech
February 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
GWEI founder, Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, delivered the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Monday night in Cornell University's Sage Chapel, linking his grandfather’s theory of nonviolence to King. “I changed the two words, ‘non-violence’ to one word, ‘nonviolence,’” Gandhi said during the speech. “It stands on its own [and] it is […]
Remembering Gandhi’s Martyrdom of Peace
January 29, 2012 by 2 Comments
Today is the 64th anniversary of Gandhi’s death. “Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Generations to come […]
Remembering King: Radical Organizor or Safe Icon
January 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
895 streets in the America are named Martin Luther King Jr. Hundreds of clinics, community centers, hospitals and parks throughout the nation also bear his name. No other modern American figure’s name has been attached to so many civic places, said Derek Alderman, a professor of geography at the University of East Carolina who studies […]
46 Women to Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
January 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
A New Year's Resolution to Raise Awareness. Very cool! 46 Women to Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day — The Freedom Climb, an initiative of Operation Mobilization (OM), is raising awareness and funds to combat oppression, slavery, exploitation, and global trafficking. This event is symbolic of the challenging climb that victims face while […]