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MILANA and Advocacy

October 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The following pictures were taken by Brandeis-India Initiative Fellow Melissa Donze ’12. Melissa worked in and around Bangalore with MILANA, a small organization founded by HIV-positive women that offers psycho-social support, nutritional and home-based counseling, familial and children’s services, prevention and outreach work, as well as advocacy for the rights of those living with HIV.

A cove of trees at Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore, India

Climbing up to Kempegowda Tower at Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore, India

Drying saris out on the line, Bangalore, India

Protesting the Health Minister's homophobic statements, Bangalore India

Kumkum (powder used for social or religious marking) outside a temple, Bangalore, India

Playing around with her umbrella, Bangalore, India

Drawing at the children's program she helped organize, Bangalore, India

Sharing laughs with one another at the children's program she helped organize, Bangalore, India

The group that participated in the children's program, Bangalore, India

Tipu Sultan's palace, Bangalore, India

Temple with flowers in the foreground, Bangalore, India

An abandoned rickshaw and a resting place for dogs, Bangalore, India

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Hindu Seva Pratishthana

October 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The following photos were taken by David Wilkerson ’12. David is a Brandeis-India Initiative Fellow who worked in Bangalore and traveled to other areas as part of a Health Team service project internship with Yuva for Sewa, or Youth for Service. The organization is dedicated to providing community-based outreach to the poor and underprivileged; David specifically worked in Bangalore, Karnataka organizing medical camps, coordinating medical follow-ups, building the network of Doctors for Sewa, and volunteering in hospitals.

You can read David’s blog entry, “Where is Crescent School? …On Mosque Road, of course.”, by clicking here.

Gandhi Bazaar, Basavanagudi, Bangalore

 

Ganesha Chathurthy Preparations

Jain Temple, Jayanagar

Jeevanhalli, Coxtown, Bangalore

Munichinappa School, Adugodi

Narendra Nele, Lakshmidevinagar

NR Colony, Bangalore

Outside Mangalore

Padmanabhanagar, Bangalore

Rajarajeshwari School, Srinivasanagar

Vanivilas Rd, Basavanagudi, Bangalore

Filed Under: Ariana Hajmiragha, Authors, Blogs, India, Regions, South Asia, Students, The Big Picture

Footprints and Stories

September 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The following photos were taken by Nusrath Yusuf ’13 and her fellow internship colleagues. Nusrath is a Brandeis-India Initiative Fellow who worked in Delhi and traveled to other areas with an internship with Operation ASHA. The organization aims to eradicate tuberculosis from third world countries and works in impoverished regions to provide cost-effective tuberculosis treatment.

Read Nusrath’s blog: Footprints and Stories

Young girl getting mehndi put on her hands at Lajpat Nagar Market, New Delhi

Victoria Memorial, Kolkatta – Originally built by the British while in India

Children and a cow in a slum near Tehkhand, South Delhi

Prayers dropped in a simple wooden box on Mother Teresa's tomb – AJC Bose Road, Kolkatta

The Golden Temple in Amritsar – a place that gets more visitors than the Taj Mahal every day

A man praying inside the Golden Temple, away from the crowds and tourists – Amritsar

All on the auto-rickshaw agreed, these were the happiest beggars they had seen in Delhi

People crowding around the main water supply pipeline to collect clean drinkable water on a 90 F day – Harkesh Nagar slums, South Delhi

6 months and about 100 empty strips later, the patient no longer has tuberculosis – Hazira, Gwalior

Children living in a 250-year old abandoned temple in Jaipur

"A simple picture, just because" – Wagah Border, Punjab

Filed Under: Ariana Hajmiragha, Authors, Blogs, India, Regions, South Asia, Students, The Big Picture

Explorations in India

July 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The photos below were taken by Chenyu “Terry” Li ’14 and his internship colleagues.  Terry is a Brandeis-India Initiative Fellow who worked in Dharamsala, India this summer with Love Volunteers.

Read Terry’s initial blog entry: First impression of India.

Anchal, one of the children at the Daycare center.

My favorite dish: chapati with beans and potato.

Sajal, one of the children at the daycare center. She likes dancing.

At McLeod Ganj, also known as Upper Dharamshala. It is where the Tibetan government in Exile located.

At Taj Mahal with Yifei Sun, another Brandeis student who is also volunteering in India.

The road that I take to school everyday. Himalayas at the back.

The main bazaar (market) of Palampur.

His Holiness Dalai Lama's residence.

A panoramic view of McLeod Ganj.

View from my bedroom window.

Hawa Mahal, a remarkable building in Jaipur.

At the Tsuglag Khang Temple in McLeod Ganj.

Filed Under: Authors, Blogs, India, Regions, South Asia, Students, The Big Picture

TERI students visit Brandeis

July 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Brandeis and the Heller School for Social Policy and Management have formed a beginning partnership with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in Delhi, India: an institution devoted to climate change and sustainability.  Nine TERI students — civil servants in the Indian government — have just completed a seminar at the Heller School.  On July 14, the last day of the seminar, the students gathered with members of the Brandeis community to celebrate this new partnership.

For more information, please read the BrandeisNOW story Indian officials get Brandeis take on health, AIDS and development policy.

Information on the Brandeis-India Initiative can be found at http://www.brandeis.edu/globalbrandeis/india/index.html.

Dan Terris, Vice President of Global Affairs, speaks to the TERI students and their Brandeis colleagues

Filed Under: Authors, Blogs, Global Campus, India, Regions, Shelby Bleiweis, South Asia, Staff, The Big Picture

Masala Chat: Images of India

June 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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These photos have been reposted, by permission, from Jessica Christian’s blog “Masala Chat”.  Click here to see the original entry.

My trusty, hardworking fan

 

Flowers in my grandfather's backyard

View from a Mumbai apartment

The Gateway of India

 

Indian Municipality Building in Colaba

Glass house of Lalbagh

 

Exotic tree with tourists carvings

Kempegowda Tower in Lalbagh

Art outside Mumbai college campus

Prayer before a community meeting in Ullalupanagar

Filed Under: Authors, Blogs, India, Regions, South Asia, Students, The Big Picture

Images of Hope for Haiti

October 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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In early September, five Brandeis alumni medical professionals traveled to Haiti on a volunteer medical mission.  Participant Michael Forman shares these photos, which illustrate both the beautiful and the bleak aspects of the nation.  Read the Justice article here.


Filed Under: Blogs, Haiti, Latin America & the Caribbean, Regions, The Big Picture

Life in an Indian Slum

October 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Prachee Sinha, an M.A. Candidate in Sustainable International Development at the Heller School, is currently doing her practicum in Lucknow, India.  Sinha witnessed firsthand the rampant urban poverty of the city, and hopes that these photos will both inform people about this devastation and encourage them to take action.  In her words: “One is here to learn from the people who would not survive without the resilience and creativity they possess”.  Read her original blog post, India’s Forgotten People, for more information.

A home

Chandan

What a bathroom looks like

An illegal slum in Lucknow

A typical slum

A place called home

Water Woes

Using the water source

The slums

The slum habitat

The kids of Lucknow

"Children of Heaven"

One of the alleys of a slum

Filed Under: Blogs, India, Regions, South Asia, The Big Picture

A Prominent Brandeis Alum

August 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Adam with Liberian Foreign Affairs Minister Olubanke King-Akerele '67

A quick update: Just before he left Liberia, Adam had a chance to meet with the Liberian Minister of Foreign Affairs – Brandeis alum Olubanke King-Akerele ’67 – at the inaugural Peace Corps-Liberia Swearing-In Ceremony. She was very exciting to make the Brandeis connection!

Filed Under: Abroad, Adam Rosenberg, Africa, Authors, Blogs, Global Affairs Updates, Regions, Students, The Big Picture

Brandeis in The Hague

June 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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For six weeks in June and July, 18 Brandeis undergraduates explored issues of international justice in The Hague, Netherlands. Their experience was part of a new Brandeis study abroad collaboration between The Office of Study Abroad, The Office of Global Affairs, Legal Studies, International and Global Studies, and in partnership with the University of Leiden. Prof. Richard Gaskins (Legal Studies) led the trip and taught the program’s two courses in international law. Here are some images from the trip, taken by Director of Study Abroad J. Scott Van Der Meid. For a full recap, click here.

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Photographs from India

April 19, 2010 By 1 Comment
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Marie Zazueta ’11 is currently studying abroad in India with the Alliance for Global Education.   The program introduces U.S. undergraduates to some of the most dynamic, exciting areas of Indian society, politics, economics, and culture today. Environmental issues, development, social justice, economics and public health, in particular, are key areas in which India both faces unprecedented challenges and is on the global cutting edge of finding solutions.

Marie’s semester abroad is part of a multi-dimensional effort through the University and Office of Global Affairs’ Brandeis-India Initiative.   Marie is finishing up her semester abroad in Pune, India.  Here are a few photographs from her experiences living in India.


Read Marie’s previous blog post, “Studying in Pune, India.“
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A Brandeis evening in Mumbai: In pictures

March 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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During the Presidential Trip to India in February, Brandeis hosted a gathering in Mumbai that celebrated the work of our community in its commitment to social justice. The evening included a public lecture by President Reinharz, under the auspices of the Asia Society and hosted by St. Xavier’s College. The group then moved to the Taj Mahal Palace and Towers for a reception where alumni, families, and friends joined together. Here are a few images from this special night.


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Filed Under: Global Affairs Updates, India, Presidential Trip to India, Regions, South Asia, The Big Picture

MA student in Haiti

August 27, 2009 By 1 Comment
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Photograph by Lee Cohen

We’ll try to highlight existing student blogs from time to time. This blog is run by Lee Cohen, a second-year graduate student in the Sustainable International Development (SID) program at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis. Each SID graduate student is required to spend his/her second year on-site for a practicum, often working directly with a local NGO. Lee is working with an organization in Les Cayes that evaluates education, and will be collecting data on teacher salaries and other key indicators.

You can find Lee’s recent post, “T.I.H.” (This is Haiti) at: http://leeinhaiti.com/, and the RSS feed for the blog at the lower right corner of this page.

Filed Under: Abroad, Authors, Blogs, Haiti, Latin America & the Caribbean, Regions, Students, The Big Picture

"Homemade Lessons"

July 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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The Indian Express, a popular newspaper with outlets across the sub-continent, published a story on the Revive Mumbai summer program. “Homemade lessons” by Sukanya Shetty features some feedback from the Parivartan children, including this moving quote:

“Our parents don’t understand the impact violence has on the lives of children. I have seen my father harass my mother and cannot stop him. I live in the constant fear that he will beat us up. Through this play, I hope to help make my father realise where he is wrong,” says one of the kids, who the group thinks is an introvert and less participative.

You can still read new posts from the Revive group at http://sangamnagarspeaks.blogspot.com/

Filed Under: Abroad, Authors, Blogs, Bryan McAllister-Grande, India, Regions, South Asia, Staff, The Big Picture

Brandeis in China

July 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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This post is from Prof. Detlev Suderow ’70 (International Business School), who just returned from co-leading the 2009 Alumni Travel Program to China.

The Brandeis group is welcomed in Xi'an, China during a Tang Dynasty performance.

The 2009 Brandeis Alumni Association Alumni Travel program trip was a tremendous success with 27 Brandeis community participants, including 16 Brandeis alumni, who sojourned in China from June 10 – 23 led by Odyssey Tours and Brandeis co-leaders Prof. Detlev Suderow ’70 (IBS) and Brandeis University Trustee Paul Zlotoff ’72. The group traveled from Beijing to Xi’an to Chungjing — down the Yangtze River through the Three Gorges to Yicheng, then on to Shanghai. This photo was taken at the Tang Dynasty performance in Xi’an, (the last stop on the ancient Silk Road) and home of the remarkable Terracotta Warriors.

The trip was a success in every possible way — it gave alumni a chance to connect in a fascinating place, it provided a comprehensive introduction to a 5,000 year old culture, and it left participants hungering for more Alumni Trips to exotic locales.

Detlev Suderow
Adjunct Professor and
Executive-in-Residence
Brandeis University
International Business School
Waltham, Massachusetts
suderow@brandeis.edu
Office: 781-862–1913
http://www.brandeis.edu/global/faculty

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