A carry over from the English colonial days of India, the Devadasi are today thought of as the ‘temple prostitutes’, a fate the befalls many young Indian girls. According to Wikipedia, the devadasi tradition (देवदासी / ದೇವದಾಸಿ; “servant of god”) … is a religious tradition in which girls are “married” and dedicated to a deity (deva or […]
American For-Profit Prisons Unleash Brutality on Kids
May 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Privatization of the US youth prison industry handed soaring profits and a history of brutal injustice to its incarcerated youth and their families. The Walnut Grove story is a cautionary tale that raises alarming questions about the treatment of youthful, mostly nonviolent offenders in Mississippi and elsewhere. And it calls into question the wisdom of turning […]
Guest Post: Global Exchange Thanks Arun & Gandhi Legacy Tour
May 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Legacy Tour Continues – Reality Tours Thanks Arun Gandhi for 15 Years of Partnership Guest post by Malia Everette | Global Exchange Back in 1997 Reality Tours wanted to offer a tour of a lifetime to India that would inspire our members. When we met Dr. Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, and […]
Remembering Mothers’ Day
May 12, 2012 by 1 Comment
It almost seems inadequate for there to only be one day we celebrate for all that these amazing women do. I truly hope each and every Mother can enjoy even a small portion of the love they give to all of us. Thank you for all your love and kindness. In my blog post […]
Anuradha on the Plight of India’s Impoverished Children
May 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
The Relevance of Gandhi Today
May 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Source: www.ArunGandhi.net | Jan 21, 2010 Sixty years after his death a portion of Gandhiji’s ashes, stashed away by Madalsa and Shriman Narayan, the daughter and son-in-law of Jamnalal Bajaj, will be immersed at Chowpati Beach in Mumbai. Although I will be thousands of miles away in the United States the memories of sixty years […]
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 […]
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 […]