Disaster Preparedness Workshop for Tribal Groups in Nilambur
March 16, 2023 By Faseela V. & Syamjith PalakkayamProject Implementation Coordinator, Community Wellbeing & Consultant, People & Nature Collectives Keystone’s Nilambur team, in collaboration with local organisations Thoduve Foundation, Tribal Mobile Health and Kudumbasree, organised our first ever disaster preparedness workshop for local and tribal groups that were invited from within the folds of the […]
Training for Community Health Workers from Kotagiri Medical Fellowship Hospital
March 14, 2023 By Nathania John, Communications Intern The Community Wellbeing programme engaged community health workers from the Kotagiri Medical Fellowship Hospital, located down the lane from our campus, in a two-day training on March 13 and 14. The event was facilitated by members of the Community Wellbeing team and enthusiastic medical professionals from KMF […]
Bringing Back Traditional Banana Varieties in Wayanad
Traditionally, countless varieties of local plantain species were cultivated in all districts of Kerala. Today, Wayanad district continues to host a major presence, with bananas being one of the most commonly cultivated crops here. However, many of these local plantain varieties are fast disappearing, with many already extinct. This is partially caused by the expansion […]
Wayanad Students Connect with Nature Through Organic Farming
November 21, 2022 By Keystone Field Centre – Wayanad It’s a rapidly urbanising world where each generation strays further from the natural world than the one before. Modern society is grappled by a loss of language and knowledge of the earth. With fast-paced development and climate impacts changing our landscape, people are losing grasp of […]
Addressing Mental Health in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
November 3, 2022 By Anagha C. Much of our work is largely done to achieve three things: to help the rural residents of the Nilgiris to identify when they need mental health aid, to encourage them to come forward, and to ensure that help is available when they do. With K.M.F. Hospital chosen as our […]
Free Health Camps for Sanitation Workers in Coimbatore
October 15, 2022 By Vinitha MurukesanProgramme Coordinator – Water & Sanitation Sanitation workers are some of the most vulnerable workers in the system, who provide an invaluable public service that is also life-threatening in the face of a severe lack of sanitation innovation in the country. The nature of their work exposes them to various […]
World Mental Health Day: Raising Awareness in Nilambur
October 10, 2022 By Anagha C. Technical Coordinator – Community Well-being In light of the worrying trend of increased suicide rates and mental health challenges reported by our CHWs, we initiated a project on mental health interventions on an immediate basis in May 2022. These were planned with a focus on both curative and preventive […]
Evolving Ideas with the Coimbatore Collector and Officials
September 23, 2022 By Vinitha Murukesan and Bagavanidhi M.Project Coordinator – Community Well-being (Coimbatore)Technical Coordinator – Governance We’ve been working with the Tamil Nadu Urban Sanitation Support Programme (TNUSSP) for seven years now, with our projects largely based in the hills. With the two projects that were active in the plains (Periyanaickenpalayam and Narasimhanaickenpalayam) coming […]
Community Well-being at the HDCA Conference 2022 in Belgium
September 22, 2022 By Kanmani PalanisamyCommunity Well-being Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum theorized the ‘Capability Approach’ framework in the 1980s as a unique perspective on welfare economics. He proposed that a person or a community’s true capability (considering real world obstacles) to achieve a life that aligns with their values must be assessed rather than […]
World of Flavours: National Nutrition Week in Aracode
September 7, 2022 By Anagha C.Technical Coordinator, Community Well-being (Nilambur) According to the World Health Organisation, a third of the world’s undernourished people live in India, many of which are young children. September 1 to 7 is celebrated as National Nutrition Week every year, to raise awareness for the vitality of nutrition. Keystone’s Community Well-being […]
