Sunita RaoSunita Rao on October 12th, 2012

 One of the activities we did as part of our fellowship with iLEAP, was to create a poster using  a   picture of ourselves to express who we are, what we do, what is important to us, what our challenges are, what keeps us going and what the world that we want looks like. This was part of [...]

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Sunita RaoSunita Rao on October 11th, 2012

During one of our International Fellowship group sessions recently, some of us did a kind of Show and Tell. This was rather impromptu and we had to make do with what we had. I used a copper ring that I wear and spoke about it. The ring is snake shaped – a cobra in fact. I [...]

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Robert Machado (IF'12, India)Robert Machado (IF'12, India) on September 26th, 2012

A wise man of the past has said that everything has to change, nothing is permanent except the CHANGE, Change is permanent thus Holy Scripture of the East “Gita” says “Change is the Golden Rule of Life.” This is certain that the one who is born has to die and leaf/ fruit which is ripen has to [...]

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Sunita RaoSunita Rao on September 24th, 2012

So here we are into the third week at  iLEAP. I have come  from the Malnad monsoons in India to the Pacific North in the US. The first week here, we got to know each other, our homestays, figured out buses (some of us also went to sleep on the bus going home or got on the wrong [...]

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Edwin Molomoo (IF'11, India)Edwin Molomoo (IF'11, India) on September 23rd, 2011

I consider myself a fortunate one to meet my fellows from different countries.Meeting people for the first time at iLEAP its fun to watch all.I said to myself” WOW” its great to be here.But behind my mind I had a different idea.Yes its a time to share,time to learn and time to be with one [...]

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Edwin Molomoo (IF'11, India)Edwin Molomoo (IF'11, India) on September 23rd, 2011

The time went just knowing each other.it was a wonderful experience to have people from different parts of the world.

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Shammi David (IF'08, India)Shammi David (IF'08, India) on February 10th, 2011

Lovings greetings from Shammi. Trust you are all keeping fine with this New year and I wish that this year brings you all good health and cheers in your daily life. Below is a report for the children’s education program done unders CORD in which your kind support and solidarity has contributed a lot to [...]

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Robert Machado (IF'12, India)Robert Machado (IF'12, India) on September 14th, 2010

Dear Fellows, Warm Welcome to Seattle! Just we learnt from Dr. Britt that you have just arrived to attend iLEAP Fellowship programme. We wish you all the best and great moments of learning. Have a nice time in Seattle which is a epicenter of innovative ideas as well as learning. Last year myself and Tsuyoshi [...]

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Juliet Theresita (IF'09, India)Juliet Theresita (IF'09, India) on April 5th, 2010

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Juliet Theresita (IF'09, India)Juliet Theresita (IF'09, India) on April 5th, 2010

Among the India’s population 93% are unorganized and they fall under fishing, construction, agriculture, Domestic, tailoring, street vending are some among 63 categories of works and they produce 65% of countries GDP and still the government is not allocating 3% in the budget. They have no regular guaranteed work, minimum wages nor social securities. There [...]

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