Empowering women in India: A journey towards equality
Women Empowerment in India: A Journey to Equality India is a fascinating country that captivates with its rich culture, millennia-old history and exquisite cuisine. However, behind the beauty and charm of this country, hide the complex and challenging realities that women face in their search for equality and empowerment. Fortunately, there are organizations and projects that are doing amazing work. After several months of work, Tumaini has added a new women's empowerment project to her list.
Maria in India: "Varanasi has taught me to see the positive side of everything".
María Andrés is a social educator and last February she travelled to India to connect with a hitherto unknown culture. She wanted to take advantage of this trip to support the NGO with which we collaborate in Varanasi, where training and work is offered in a Fair Trade workshop to women from low castes and with few resources. Find out what her experience was like 😊 This is the first time you have volunteered internationally. Why did you decide to live an experience like this? Yes, I had never experienced anything like it before. I needed to get out of the
Andrea's 3-week experience in Kenya
They say that when you leave Kenya a little piece of you stays there, that a sense of sadness accompanies you leaving this place and that the smiles you see are etched on your retina for life. At the beginning, before the trip, you may be accompanied by fear and uncertainty about the unknown, as well as an unexpected accumulation of unknown emotions because we are going to a place with a totally different reality, with different experiences and with a way of seeing life that is very different from our own.
Educational solidarity trips: 8 keys to understanding them
What does it mean for children in a country in the South to have people from all over the world working with them? What do they learn from the volunteers? How do the farewells affect them? The coordinators of the NGOs in Iquitos (Peru), Mombasa (Kenya) and Bali (Indonesia), Tumaini's partners, answer our questions.1.
Carlos and his experience at the escuelita in Chiapas
We share one of the first experiences in the little school in Chiapas with which we have started to collaborate this year. Carlos spent almost a month enjoying this marvellous area of Mexico: "The day-to-day life has been very calm. I, in particular, left the hostel at 9 a.m. and, accompanied by one or more other volunteers, took a minibus to the start of the climb up to the top of the mountain.
Paula's experience in Bali: "It's amazing how quickly you adapt to this way of life".
"It is difficult to express in words at the moment what this experience has meant to me: two girls from Zaragoza decided to spend a month away from home to discover a new culture. Although the first day of volunteering was a bit hard for us, it is surprising how quickly you manage to adapt to a way of life completely different from your own. One of the best things about this experience is sharing it with people from other parts of the world: we rely on each other.
Maria's experience in Valle Sagrado ecovillage (Peru): "In this centre children can see that another world is possible".
Maria has spent part of her summer in this centre located in an incredible environment, full of history, magic and very special places. She herself tells us about her experience in this project with which we collaborate and which is located in the heart of the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Peru: "In the mornings we have breakfast from half past seven (not before we all greet each other with a kiss and a hug). Afterwards, everyone does a bit of what they feel like doing: being in the areas where they feel like it.
Albert in Lamay: "I have learned to live in community, to share everything I have and I have gained a family".
My collaboration during the first two months consisted of volunteering at the Lamay school. My idea was to stay in Cuzco, but the project needed people in Lamay and the coordinator Isabel, without knowing me, proposed it to me and I let myself go. Now I am grateful that she did so because I have discovered where I feel happy. The moment I arrived I knew I was going to stay. It is an incredible place, you can't describe it in words, you have to experience it in person. Surrounded by the Apus (mountains
Experience in Bali: Eva and Alberto share their sensations
A new experience in a Solidarity Trip. This time it is a double one, Alberto and Eva travelled to Bali to collaborate with the educational centre we work with there. On their return they have told us about the feelings and sensations that this participation has given them:Eva explains how the two weeks they spent at the centre went: "My experience has been fantastic in every way. Being able to collaborate with the educational project intensely and to teach classes for them makes you feel that your help is really useful, because
Maria's experience in Bolivia: How equine therapy brings happiness and benefits to children with disabilities
In my day-to-day work I helped with the equine therapy sessions for children with disabilities, taking care of the horses and doing activities with the children when they were not riding. What I liked the most was to see the relationship that was created between the child and the horse, the happiness and the benefits that the equine therapy gave them. It was a great and enriching experience. María with one of the girls at the centreThe equine therapy sessions, depending on the profile of the child, are very enriching.