Shammi David (IF'08, India)Shammi David (IF'08, India) on December 23rd, 2009

Dear Friends, Christmas means, Christmas trees, Stars, balloon, bells & decorations, sweets & cakes, presents, few days off work. This is common thinking all over the world but when we think the same in India for most people in the work including Christmas, Christmas is much closer to their everyday life. Their life is mostly [...]

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Shammi David (IF'08, India)Shammi David (IF'08, India) on June 17th, 2009

Dear 2009 iLEAP Fellows, Its my prevail age to wish you all on your graduate day. I am extremely sorry for not keeping in touch with you these days but I was sure you had good experience and stay at Seattle. This is more important than me telling about Seattle and iLEAP. I am so [...]

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Shammi David (IF'08, India)Shammi David (IF'08, India) on May 15th, 2009

Dear Friends, Trust all are keeping fine and busy with your work. I sincerely thank each of you for extending your kind support and solidarity to continue childrens formal education program with the Rag pickers and others from general community in our area. Your contribution has made these children’s to continue their education without any [...]

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Shammi David (IF'08, India)Shammi David (IF'08, India) on June 20th, 2008

During my stay in Seattle, I was trying to understand, observe, understand many things in Seattle, the time for my departure came, I took the memories along with me and now  I need time to digest and reproduce things and events that  helps me and people around.  What a great opportunity I got to visit [...]

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Shammi David (IF'08, India)Shammi David (IF'08, India) on June 15th, 2008

I am happy and proud to say that I was able to complete the iLEAP  fellowship program for social change!!!!. the closing sessions and the program was a mixture of happiness and sad, which can not be put in words. But its my duty and responsibility to say THANKS to ALL who has contributed for [...]

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Shammi David (IF'08, India)Shammi David (IF'08, India) on June 10th, 2008

Its not a myth But it is the truth.  We are all having the warm of global warming.  Many times I have listened, discussed, read on this subject confused, disturbed, how we can resist,  who is responsible for it and so on…  the class with Jonathan Schrerch on sustainable development and Mellisa on climate change [...]

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Shammi David (IF'08, India)Shammi David (IF'08, India) on June 5th, 2008

I was so happy to go to one of the tallest building in Seattle–the Columbia Towers,  I was invited along with Deborah to an American breakfast and was lucky to meet a great American person by name Bob Nest,  with lot of values imbibed in him.  I was again able to taste the culture of [...]

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Shammi David (IF'08, India)Shammi David (IF'08, India) on May 29th, 2008

project management and administration is one we the social activists always do not give much importance.  Most of the activitist concentrate only on their filed work and fund raising, implementation program.  hence most of the social organsiation face problems in the field of management.  first time when I heard the sessions of Prof. S.Boga on [...]

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Shammi David (IF'08, India)Shammi David (IF'08, India) on May 29th, 2008

video is one of the powerfull media to highlight anykind of news.  it reaches the minds of the people easily, quickly and effectively.  In my organisaton we depend on others to make shrot documentary  movies, which is very expensive and time consuming.  When I attended the session of BJ a documentary film maker and listened [...]

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Shammi David (IF'08, India)Shammi David (IF'08, India) on May 29th, 2008

I thought that I should write somethings about women in Seattle.  Before coming to US I had a opinion  that here women are not friendly to outsiders, proud, very well setteled in their families and  many other. But when I landed in Seattle I got a different experience on womens. Seattle is a place for its progressive [...]

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