Archive for July 2011

Closing the fundraiser “Cycling for adequacy in rural India” as full success

Closing the fundraiser “Cycling for adequacy in rural India” as full success

With our beloved cycles and Ortlieb bags, which we still use almost every day    Dear all,  We will close our betterplace fundraising event “12,000 km on cycles for adequacy in rural India” in support of the glass half full in the next few days as it has fully and successfully mobilised the support we were hoping for.  With your out...

July 29, 2011 in The official journey blog. No comments

New cooperation for collecting donations in Germany

New cooperation for collecting donations in Germany

We are delighted to introduce our new partner for collecting contributions made in Germany. Please welcome Dominik Schmengler , Founder of department of tomorrow and the association For Fair Education . With this change, all donations made from Germany and India are again fully tax-deductible. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank...

July 29, 2011 in The official journey blog. No comments

And back in Auroville again…

And back in Auroville again…

After  having spent some 3 weeks in Auroville to research local best practices in rural development, we figured that such a time span would not do any justice to what’s going on here. The density of approaches we believe we can learn valuable lessons from, is extremely high as Auroville as a whole is an experiment, a laboratory, a community of o...

July 22, 2011 in The official journey blog, Wiebke's tales. No comments