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Professor–Inventor Dr. Muthukumaran Visits Kameswaram
Coastal Village Chronicles, Home_blog

Professor–Inventor Dr. Muthukumaran Visits Kameswaram

Abhishek RMG
May 31, 2025

We were honoured and delighted to receive Prof. S. Muthukumaran at Kameswaram!  A heartfelt thank you for your inspiring visit, Sir. We are excited to explore the use of Muther’s Magic Bags to clean our local ponds and make Kameswaram shine!  Here is his message to us after the visit:  …

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World Water Day 2025 SUCCESSFUL WEBINAR!!
CCE Events, Home_blog

World Water Day 2025 SUCCESSFUL WEBINAR!!

Abhishek RMG
March 31, 2025

The World Water Day Webiz entitled “From Dirty to Blue: How Can Beaches Be Transformed Sustainably?” conducted on March 22, 2025, explored the challenges and solutions for achieving cleaner and more sustainable beaches. It delved into the criteria for earning the prestigious Blue Flag certification, highlighting the systemic changes required…

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Happy Women’s Day!  Celebrating with Music!
Coastal Village Chronicles, Rural Lab Events

Happy Women’s Day! Celebrating with Music!

Abhishek RMG
March 12, 2025

In FIN, in Kameswaram village, we always do a special event on March 8, to demonstrate and nurture women’s empowerment and this year we decided to hold a music competition. Today, Amutha madam from FIN, the main organizer of the event was there at the office by 8 AM to…

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Join us for an Interactive live learning experience on World Water Day – March 22, 2025!
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Join us for an Interactive live learning experience on World Water Day – March 22, 2025!

Abhishek RMG
March 11, 2025

From Dirty to Blue: How Can Beaches Be Transformed Sustainably?   Date: 22 March 2025 Time: 12:30 PM CET | 05:00 PM IST what’s in Store? Interactive Quiz | Expert Panel | Live Q&A Participation only by registration – free webinar – no payment necessary   Waving the Blue Flag:…

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Ramgarh Cantt Digital Skilling Centre 2024 Summary
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Ramgarh Cantt Digital Skilling Centre 2024 Summary

Abhishek RMG
December 4, 2024

The Ramgarh Digital Skilling Centre is committed to empowering local youth through essential digital skills, fostering community engagement, and encouraging social responsibility. Our mission is to create a generation of digitally skilled individuals who contribute to their personal growth and the welfare of their community.     In 2024, 6…

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FIN and Engineers without Borders (EWB) and their sanitation adventure!
Home_blog, Stories from finnies & FIN friends

FIN and Engineers without Borders (EWB) and their sanitation adventure!

Abhishek RMG
November 16, 2024

Since 2022, FIN has been collaborating with Engineers without Borders (EWB) to explore and promote innovative solutions to problems linked to the WaSH sector (water, sanitation and hygiene). Every year, FIN offers challenges from the Kameswaram village context to EWB, to be proposed to hundreds of students in Ireland. In…

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FIN’s Webiz (Quiz with Discussion) to celebrate World Toilet Day a big success!
CCE Events

FIN’s Webiz (Quiz with Discussion) to celebrate World Toilet Day a big success!

Abhishek RMG
December 20, 2022

    On Friday, November 18 – a day before the actual World Toilet Day on November 19 – FIN hosted an online event in collaboration with the United Nations University UNU-MERIT, where I am Professor. It is always nice to wear two hats – one as FIN director and…

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Meet our Intern Saimi Hartikainen!!
Internship, Stories from fin interns

Meet our Intern Saimi Hartikainen!!

Abhishek RMG
April 7, 2022

My name is Saimi Hartikainen and I am a first-year student at United World College Maastricht, which is an international boarding school in the Netherlands. I come from Finland, and I am very excited to be here to broaden my horizons and understand new perspectives. I grew up in an…

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Field Notes from Kameswaram village ……such a beautiful village…..but….
blog, Coastal Village Chronicles

Field Notes from Kameswaram village ……such a beautiful village…..but….

Abhishek RMG
April 7, 2022

I(Prof. Shyama V. Ramani) have been in Kameswaram village in Nagapattinam district for one week. I am here to do research on data governance. Kameswaram is a village with only those households classified as marginalized (in past or present) by the Indian Government. Yet, there is enormous income inequality. There…

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FIN celebrates how women help each other to Celebrate Women’s Day!
Rural Lab Events

FIN celebrates how women help each other to Celebrate Women’s Day!

Abhishek RMG
March 26, 2022

In many parts of the world women are making progress in all walks of life. This is definitely something to celebrate! That said, there are a million and one obstacles that must still be moved while being bombarded subtly or not so subtly by messages that lead us women to…

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