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Category Archives: India September 2009
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 [...]
Also posted in 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
Also posted in citizen journalism, media Tagged Anoothi, India, Jaipur, Udayan, Vatsalya, Women's Self-Help Group Leave a comment
The little NGO that can, Vatsalya.org in Jaipur India
We get asked all the time “what is an NGO?” Its a common question. We hope soon it will be a household word and that everyone will know that NGO means non-gonvernment organization, a non-profit.
SalaamGarage is bringing a group of incredibly talented, smart, and caring people to Rajasthan, India to help a small NGO [...]
Jalebi and other eats Rajasthan India
I am quite hungry at work today. I really want something sweet. I advise against looking at fried sweet things photos when you really really want some. (only 39 days to go till SalaamGarage’s humanitarian media team arrives is in Rajasthan!)
Jaipur
Delhi
Pushkar
Udaipur- some vegetable relief…
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Udaipur's Lake Pichola: Ups and Downs
Taken 2 months ago, these photos by pondspider and posted on flickr show water in Lake Pichola!
This link is pretty fun. EARTHTV.com for Udapur’s Lake Pichola is a live camera pan across part of the lake and shows if the lake has water. The music is distracting (bad) but the live camera panning across [...]
Seeing Sufis
Dargah of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer is one of the most important sufi shrines in the world. We are thrilled we will get to stop here, an easy and important stop on our way to Pushkar from Jaipur in a little over a month.
photo by soham_pablo on Flickr.
7 stories deep, Mughal Temple in Jaipur
We are counting the days till the SalaamGarage India trip. We start in Jaipur where NGO Vatsalya is based. During our 6 days in Jaipur we will have the chance to visit Galta Ji and Abhaneri, part of a series of stepped temples. Seriously beautiful, Abhaneri kund (stepped cistern) photos from Flickr [...]
My Doctor Visit: Update for India Trip Vaccinations
Well, I have two sore upper arms now.
Doctor was great. Vaccinations, he said, are really up to the patient. You don’t have to get anything but it is good to be educated and ask for advice. (See my links and research in the previous post) Doc suggested I get Hepatitis A, [...]
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