#Staying the Course

Yampier Duranona

Leading to the light

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Tiffani Brar is a tough woman, who knows what she wants and is going to go for it. Todays talk is really encouraging and uplifting. A delight. Tiffany Brar. An Indian community service worker who has been blind since childhood. A social activist and trainer, working to create awareness on disability. She is the founder of the Jyothirgamaya Foundation, a non-profit organization whose stated mission is to help blind people in all spheres of life to gain the skills needed for a successful and smooth existence. An Eye to the blind in the podcast to restore your faith in Humanity

Website: https://jyothirgamayaindia.org/

OMLA, creating a new Africa

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Taking into account what my guest today, Lawrence Afere shared, According to UN projections, the population of Africa is going to increase to around 2.5 billion in 2050. All key sustainability challenges, social as well as environmental, will be on full display in Africa in the decades to come, and the most vulnerable people are likely to suffer the brunt of negative future impacts. At the same time, Africa has the youngest population of any continent on Earth, with an amazing amount of entrepreneurial energy and hope for the future. With One Million African Leaders or OMLA, Lawrence Afere and his team hope to make a lasting impact on the continental entrepreneurial landscape.

More Infos:

https://springboardnig.com/

https://onemillionleadersafrica.org/

To fly like bats

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kanthari alumni Anja Pfaffenzeller started 2013 the Project “Bats in Action” in Sobral, a town in the north-east of Brazil. She realised how much blind people in Brazil are excluded from education and decided to get involved. She wanted the brasilian blind kids to fly like bats, to manage their own way. In todays podcast Anja tells us in a very honest, yet reflected way about her experience of realising a project for blind children in Brazil. At the same time, we’re talking about what challenges to face back in Germany when it comes down to building a life and also trying to realise ideas. Which hurdles to face, be it in Brazil, be it in Germany.

A message of inclusion and equality

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While studying, Lorena already was very active trying to make the world a better place, volunteering for different organisations whenever she could. But there was one turning point, when she decided, she couldn’t just go on like that but really had to get engaged, change something and fight for the rights of all disabled persons. Let’s try to change our mindsets – delve in and don’t miss out on todays talk with Lorena from Argentina. “Accessibility is necessary for some, but it is useful for everyone” says the Co-Founder of Comparlante, Fundación Comparlante a non-profit organization that promotes the development and inclusion of persons with disabilities in Latin America.

https://www.comparlante.com/english/index_en.php

http://www.igualquetu.org/

Harriet´s Rhythm of life

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“Equity in health means access to healthcare, regardless of who you are, regardless of what you do. I’m convinced health is everyone’s right…” Harriet Kamashanyu in today’s Podcast. As it is the case almost all over the world, women in Africa, including Uganda, are an economically disadvantaged group. The lack of economic power of these communities, especially among young women, is a major obstacle to long-term development in Uganda. Harriet is the Founder and Executive Director of Rhythm of Life Kampala, an organization set out to provide health care services to sex-workers in the red-light district in Kampala and to educate their daughters in a variety of programmes. This is an episode about women empowerment, transformation and the Rhythms of Life.

To support go to: rhythmoflifeuganda.org/

TCM – Prevention and Treatment for COVID 19

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The Coronavirus disease pandemic has been rapidly spreading globally and has caused worldwide social and economic disruption. As scientists race to develop a vaccine for Covid-19, China has been championing Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as a way to treat the disease. Todays podcast is a Special. We want to enrich the Media world with some really enlightening information on how TCM was used in China to prevent and treat COVID 19, in order to get severe cases under control, or not even get to that point. Be it by giving hospital staff certain nutrition advice to prevent infections with COVID 19, or treating the vast population when an outbreak threatened to get the tight hospital facilities for so many people overloaded. In either case, the results are impressive and one wonders – why is hardly anybody talking about these studies and results? There are quite a large number of people, who have actually been treated that way. Luckily, when talking to Angela about our every day experience with COVID 19, she was very happy to join our podcast and let more people know about what information she’s getting, when digging a bit more into what TCM can contribute to deal with the worldwide pandemic. Convince yourself and join todays podcast – I promise you, it is very entertaining!

Here, as promised, you find the list of herbs that are being used in the TCM formula to prevent and treat the COVID-19, mostly in the 3rd wave in north China. This is a translation provided by our guest. Before you use this Formula, please ask a professional chinese doctor, western doctor or pharmacist:

Ephedra sinica stapf (Ma huang) 9g
Cinnamomum cassia sieb. (Gui zhi) 9g
Alismatis orient rhizoma (ze xie) 9g
Apricot kernel (xing ren) 9g
Polyporus (zhu ling) 9g
Gypsum fibrosum (sheng shi gao) 15-30g (need pre-cook)
Atractylodis macrocephalae rhizoma (bai zhu) 9g
Poria sclerotium poriae cocos (fu ling) 15g
Ginger (sheng jiang) 9g
Asarum heterotropoides Fr. (xi xin) 6g
Pogostemon cablin (huo xiang) 9g
Bupleuri radix (chai hu) 16g
Aster tataricus (zi yuan) 9g
Dioscorea opposita thunb. (shan yao) 12g
Scutellaria baicalensis georgi (huang qin) 6g
Tussilago farfara (kuan dong hua) 9g
Citrus aurantium (zhi shi) 6g
Pinellia ternata (ginger treated)(jiang ban xia) 9g
Belamcanda chinensis (she gan) 9g
Chimpi (skin from citrus reticulata blanco) (chen pi) 6g
Glycyrrhizae radix (honey treated) (zhi gan cao) 6g

Ecological Balance for Cameroon

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My guest today is Limbi Blessing Tata, a trained Botanist/Conservationist, who has been working in the field of forest conservation over a decade. After graduating from kanthari in 2018, she started the organisation Eco Balance which is valuing forests as a deposit of natural wealth accumulated over generations. Eco Balance is combining education and participation with active restoration efforts, thus helping to bring the benefits and value of Cameroon’s forest back into the everyday life of the people.
http://www.ecobalances.org

Addressing Taboos

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kanthari alumni Aparna Gopan and Ruangtup Kaeokamechun (Ruang) do an amazing job in questioning taboos – talking about the things we’re taught not to talk about and therefore giving, especially children, an important tool to get information. Aparnas “Elephant in the room” in India and Ruangs “Little Firefly” in Thailand are dealing with taboos in their societies. In our very touching conversation they talk about their personal motivation and experiences regarding taboos and the achievements they can see within their societies. It’s very encouraging to listen to these two fearless women, who go on fighting for the rights of the marginalized and speaking out loud about harmful taboos. If you´re loocking for a way to support them, here you find their websites:

https://www.hinghoynoy.com/                http://www.elefantintheroom.org/

Why nonviolence is stronger than violence

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Thousands of farmers, especially from Punjab and Haryana, are staging a sit-in protest along Delhi borders. The farmers are demanding a complete rollback of the new farm reform laws and a guarantee on the Minimum Support Price system being retained. In today´s Podcast Giraffe Hero Dilip Simeon is giving us a thorough evaluation on the farmer’s protest in New Dehli. The movement, which is ongoing for almost three months already, had being going on peacefully since November 2020. The one incident of 26th it is not what the bulk of the farmers wants, he said. The movement has created great solidarity among the society. Dilip also gives some insight on what are the crucial things that should change socially and politically in India, but also globally.

The power of books

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Yoshimi connects books to people and people to books. After the kanthari scholarship, she started “Always Reading Caravan”, a unique nonprofit that brings books, fun, and hope to rural communities in Northern Thailand. A mobile library for children and adults, both with, and without disabilities in rural Thailand, founded by a Japanese woman who happens to be blind. For Yoshimi, books are important, but more important are the people reading these books. She sees reading as a tool to connect people and also to connect people to society.

https://www.alwaysreadingcaravan.org/php/index.php