Mushroom Growing in Nagaland
Mushrooms are accepted as an ideal health food, providing supplementary nutrition, and can provide a source of subsidiary income. Nagaland has a favourable climate for mushroom growing and this provides an ideal opportunity for our partners NARUDA to set up a mushroom farm run by the local community. At present, mushrooms are in scarce supply and their sale is easily accomplished.
Inequality in Indian Education
The following is an extract from the UNICEF website. “India has many accomplishments to celebrate in education. (…) However, out of 100 students, 29 per cent of girls and boys drop out of school before completing the full cycle of elementary education, and often they are the most marginalized children.”
The Path to Hope
After some of us travelling for 13 and a half hours whilst others travelling for 21 and a half hours we finally made it to ‘Agun Ki’ (….) As part of EWB Malaysia we teamed up with Naruda to help expand this loving home due to the large number of orphans in the area. During this post I want to focus more on what I learnt from the locals because to this day it is one of the most life changing experiences I have ever come across.
Children of Agun Ki Study during Lockdown
NARUDA is one of our partners in Nagaland and the Director and his wife look after nine abandoned children in their family home. It is called Agun Ki, the House of Hope, which Global Support Link helped to expand in 2018, with the support of volunteers from Nottingham University.
Nzau Village takes Delivery of Water Tanks for Rainwater Harvesting
In conjunction with NARUDA, our Nagaland partner,, we were able to buy 100 water tanks to help the people of Nzau Village with their need for clean water during the dry season. The water is collected by harvesting rainwater during the wet season.
Previously, people had to walk 100m downhill to collect water but now they do not need to do that. (…)