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Film Festival in Sunderban |
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AMAN Trust and Ebong Alap, Kolkata organised a two-day film festival in Sunderban, West Bengal on 29-30th June 2010. The film festival was held in Bijoynagar Adarsha Vidyamandir, the only higher - secondary school in the Bali island of Sunderban, which is one of the most underdeveloped, marginalized and ecologically fragile regions of the country. The details and pictures of the event would be available shortly. To know more about the background and schedule of the festival please, Click Here
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Consultation on People, Floods, Governance & AMAN's programme in N. Bihar |
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AMAN organized a two-day consultation on People, Floods & Governance at AN Sinha Institute, Patna on 29-30 May 2010. The meeting was co-organised with AN Sinha Institute of Social Sciences, Patna and South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy (SADED). This meeting was in wake of AMAN's relief, rehabilitationand policy analysis work in flood affected areas of North Bihar. To know more about the programe Click Here. The latest update from the field can be Read Here
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Auto-meters for the People |
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Simon Harding | Indian Express | 23 March 2010
Please find below the link of an article written by our colleague Simon
Harding. Simon has been
interning with AMAN on Informal Labour since last October. In
collaboration with Arshad Hussain he has extensively researched on
labouring conditions of auto rickshaw wallas and this article is
written as a response to Delhi CM Shiela Dixit comments that auto
rickshaws should be banned as they are a nuisance to Delhi public. An
unedited version of the article is available Here .
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Internship Programme with AMAN |
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AMAN would like to invite students and youth for an internship programme ranging for a period of three to six months. The interns will have an opportunity to be part of our work ranging from documentation, editing, secondary research at the AMAN office, to being a part of primary research and field work being conducted in an urban or a rural area. AMAN has several ongoing programmes which are listed on our website.
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 AMAN concluded a music concert for peace, that AMAN co-organized with IPTA, JNU Unit at the KC Open Air Theatre, JNU on the 27th March 2010. Well known band Advaita performed on the night with messages of non violence and peace.The concert was attented by more than 700 strong audience. This was the last in the series of our programmes on the theme of Campaigns on Conflict Resolution and Peace building in which AMAN had been collaborating with different universities of Delhi. Click on Read More for some pictures from the concert.
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Labouring on the Margins of Citizenship |
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AMAN Trust carried out fieldwork in Taimurnagar basti (New Delhi), attempting to better understand certain aspects of living in this settlement of 7000-strong migrants. The research was two-pronged: focussing, firstly, on childbirth and pregnancy- a crucial aspect of women’s health and medical care. And secondly, on the system of waste picking work; waste picking comprising the occupation of a significant part of the population here. Investigating both these themes shed light on how the labour and health practices of basti-inhabitants interacted with state policy and practices. Read the Full Report
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Aman Trust has concluded three Film festivals in Lucknow, Patna and Alwar. The festivals were called Faasle... (the distances) and Aghaaz... (the beginning) and Alwar Film Samaroh. Fifteen documentary and feature films were screened during the events. Film directors, like MS Sathyu (Dir. Garam Hawa), Sonia Jabbar (Dir. Autumns final country), Rahul Roy (Dir. When Four Frineds Meet) and Lalit Vachani (Dir. The Salt Stories and Men in the Trees) were present during the festivals to introduce their films and interact with the audience and media persons. The festivals received a warm and encouraging response from the audiences.
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Primary Health Care Centre |
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 AMAN, with assistance from European Commission for Humanitarian Organisation (ECHO) and a local organization set up the Primary Health Care and Recuperative Centre in a remote village of Mattipora in Baramulla district in September 2004. The project saw active participation of the local community in not only mobilising people of the district to take part in the programme but also in providing voluntary labour and services in running the centre. I
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NREGA Campaign
Two NREGA awareness-raising 'padyatras' were organized in the Jehanabad and Arwal districts of Bihar, in January and February 2009. Local NREGA implementation committees have been formed in the villages visited. Read More
Gender Violence and Law
AMAN's legal aid programme in Jehanabad, Bihar the Kanooni Sahayata Kendra (KSK) organised a one-day workshop on Gender Violence and Law on 6th December 2008. Read More
Flood Relief in Bihar
A new ten-month programme, supported by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has begun in March 2009 on sustainable livelihood generation in Kosi- flood affected districts of Saharsa and Supual, Bihar.
Testimonies
Informal Labour
Rani is a domestic worker... Read
Internal Displacement
We left in January 1990, for fear of... Read
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News for the Day
Capitalism: A Love Story
Chris McGreal | The Guardian
After guns and the Iraq war, Michael Moore is now taking on an entire political and economic system in his latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story. So what message does the man who once planned to become a priest have?... Read More
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