Category Archives: cultural immersion

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 [...]
Also posted in India September 2009, fundraising, voluntourism, educational trips | Leave a comment

Vatsalya Stories: Sugan Chose Lisa

On the SalaamGarage trip to India in September 2009, Lisa was moved like I rarely ever see. Everyone who travels with SalaamGarage gets to choose the story they are going to tell but for Lisa, it was she who was chosen. Lisa Field-Elliot and Eduardo Sciammarella, 2 of the 10 participants on the India project, [...]
Also posted in India September 2009, citizen journalism, media, photography, travel, voluntourism, educational trips | 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 [...]
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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!
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Also posted in Vietnam January 2010, media | 4 Comments

Vietnam Humanitarian Media trip

Only 5 months till SalaamGarage takes on another great cause. On January 11, 2010 SalaamGarage’s Vietnam team and Peacetrees Vietnam NGO will be eating pho and bun in cafe in Hanoi. We’ll be sharing photography experiences with Jennifer Le, a talented Hanoi based social documentary photographer, and other media creators. [...]
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