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Have a Cow!
We bought a new water buffalo (not a cow really) for Udayan home for children!
The SalaamGarage India team that visited Vatsalya.org this past September are in high gear working on their stories, building a book, building multimedia. To inspire us further, we found out today that Vatsalya bought a new, much needed water buffalo for [...]
Four Men Severely Injured by Bomb near Khe Sahn, Vietnam
Last month, January 2010, Amanda Koster and the rest of the SalaamGarage team visited Khe Sanh to experience first hand the work of NGO Peacetrees Vietnam. While there, they learned about UXOs (unexploded ordnance) left from the Vietnam War and the dangers they cause to the local farmers and their families still today.
Unfortunately the event [...]
Posted in Vietnam January 2010, citizen journalism, media, photography, travel Leave a comment
El Paraiso Guatemala- Agros International SalaamGarage Trip July 2010
photo by Agros International
Join us in Guatemala this summer.
Our partner NGO is the amazing Agros International- putting land ownership into the hands of rural indigenous peoples. Check out their photo stream on Flickr.
Contact us for more info and sign-up now before the trip fills. Deadline this february!
Join Us in Guatemala Summer 2010, create a [...]
Village Batzchocola- Agros and SalaamGarge Summer 2010
photo from Agros International
For more beauty from Agros International and the villages, like Batzchocola, they work to help throughout rural Guatemala.
www.agros.org/ag/our-villages/guatemala/batzchocola/
Join Us in Guatemala Summer 2010
Here are the stories we will be working on in Guatemala with Agros International. Choose yours!
Eduardo in India with SalaamGarage- Identity for the women of Shampura Village
Eduardo Sciammarella, CEO of Los Angeles based Protohaus, joined the SalaamGarage India 2009 team to help make a difference for disadvantaged women and children. We asked Eduardo what stood out as he worked on his humanitarian stories in a rural village called Shampura outside Jaipur where NGO Vatsalya works.
Eduardo interviewing Santosh with the help [...]
Posted in India September 2009, citizen journalism, cultural immersion, media, photography Tagged citizen journalism, India, Rajasthan, SalaamGarage, voluntourism 3 Comments
Udayan Home for Children, Part of Vatsalya.org
This past week the SalaamGarage team of storytellers for India 2009 have been hard at work building stories, interviewing, recording, observing and participating in so many of Vatsalya’s great projects around Jaipur, India.
Here are a few flip videos I recorded at Udayan home for children and Anoothi shop run by Vatsalya.org
Posted in India September 2009, citizen journalism, media Tagged Anoothi, India, Jaipur, Udayan, Vatsalya, Women's Self-Help Group Leave a comment
Making peace with Dad's war
By Guest Blogger, Journalist Daysha Eaton
The very first interview that I ever conducted was with my father. It was a high school English assignment to interview a veteran of a war. My dad was a Vietnam Vet so, naturally, I went home on May 20, 1993, sat down in the living room of our house [...]
Posted in Vietnam January 2010, cultural immersion, media 4 Comments
How I Pay for my Projects
by Amanda Koster, SalaamGarage founder
from the original post on her personal blog
passion. focus. talent. intuition. faith. trust. i.e: love
many people ask me how did you make your projects happen. people really want to know how on earth i fund the projects. well, with money of course. but that’s not the real question. anyone can [...]
Posted in How-To, Resources, Self Publishing, about, fundraising, media, photography Leave a comment
Daysha Eaton and Janat Horn published in Vietnam