At FIN, we have long marked World Water Day with webinars designed for learning. This year, I am sharing something I hope goes further: a recorded interview with Anil Bhatia, one of India’s most compelling sanitation entrepreneurs and the mind behind the Suvidha community toilet model. It can be a…
Under the guidance of Dr. Shyama Ramani, International Women’s Day was celebrated at our charitable organization with the students of our tailoring class. Certificates were awarded to the women of Kameswaram who had successfully completed training courses in Aari embroidery and saree blouse tailoring. Furthermore, in an…
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…
Liam McCarton, director of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Ireland and Lecturer at the Technical University Dublin, visited us in Kameswaram village with his wife Jackie. Engineers without Borders (EWB) is a global organization that seeks to implement engineering solutions to societal issues. FIN has been partnering with EWB-Ireland for two…
Hello everyone, I am Anurag, a new member in the FIN group. I live in the capital city of India, New Delhi. One of the cities with fastest rate of urbanization paralleled with a low urban growth. My daily bus travel between laboratory to home over the past 4 years…
As we dream and work towards improving the lives of girls and women at Kameshwaram, let me share with you all a little story that I wrote many years back for Joanna. (Thank you!). There was this special girl in Kameshwaram, who was extremely physically challenged and nearly blind. Her…
I was at this conference, and I caught sight of Prof. Carl Pray, internationally renowned for his work on agriculture in developing countries including India. Though I do not share his enthusiasm for genetically modified plant varieties or newer biotech techniques like Crispr – his views are based on rigorous…
Blog by: by Jacqueline Salguero Huaman At the end of last year, I was discussing the main objective of FIN for 2019, namely building climate resilience, with Jacqueline Salguero Huaman, from Peru. “Community engagement is everything” she said, “This kind of stuff is going to keep happening, and which government…