iVolunteer Blog - everything about volunteeringAs I stand at the verge of completing my fellowship journey, I often find myself reflecting on the past few months and asking- what has been my greatest learning? More than any technical skill or field exposure, the answer that comes to me most clearly is this: learning how to be a good manager, and […]
Food often arrives on a plate without revealing the long journey behind it. In the hilly villages of Pati, tucked deep into the Kumaon region, small kitchen gardens are bringing that journey back into view, transforming empty patches of land into spaces of learning. Here, adolescents are slowly learning that food is not just nourishment […]
There is a word in Bangla “স্থিতপ্রজ্ঞা” which means a person who stays calm, balanced or steady no matter what the situation is – good or bad. If I had to describe the woman of the mountains in one word, then it would essentially be this word. Living in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand has […]
It’s been more than a month now since I’ve arrived in Pati, a quite, hilly block of Champawat, Uttarakhand. I came here as a fellow, hoping to serve- whatever that truly meant. But I think it’s Pati that’s serving me- with lessons, with warmth, with simplicity that we often forget to value. One thing I […]
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