News Reporting Workshop for Tribal Youth Leaders & Seemai Sudhi
April 6, 2023 By Nathania John & Jeyanthi R.Communications Intern & Additional Programme Coordinator – People & Nature Collectives The Radio Kotagiri team at Keystone had the opportunity to conduct a news reporting workshop on April 6 on the Keystone campus in Kotagiri. The workshop was held for the Nilgiri Seemai Sudhi volunteers and teaching […]
Cleanliness Drive in Krishnapudur for World Forest Day & Water Day
March 22, 2023 By Manickam A. & Nathania JohnSubject Coordinator – Radio Kotagiri & Communications Intern On March 22, Keystone’s Radio Kotagiri team collaborated with Kaypeeyes College and the Kotagiri town panchayat to conduct a cleanliness drive in Krishnapudur village. It was a combined celebration of World Forest Day (March 21) and World Water Day […]
Disom Leadership School Visits Keystone
March 19, 2023 By Ranjani Prasad, Programme Coordinator – People & Nature Collectives This month saw a visit by students from the Disom Leadership School, helmed by the Disom Foundation. The 15-month long course is offered to young leaders across the country. The activities of the school are described as “a movement to nurture ethical […]
Updates on Year 2 of Tribal Youth Leadership Programme
February 17, 2023 By Kavyanjali, Community Resource Person, Wayanad A quarter of Year Two of our Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) Youth Leadership Programme has passed, marked by a visit from our funder, Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives at our campus in Kotagiri. Read about updates from Year One here. This programme aims to support community […]
World Radio Day at Keystone with Radio Kotagiri
February 13, 2023 By Manickam A., Subject Coordinator – Radio Kotagiri & People & Nature Collectives Today, Radio Kotagiri 90.4mhz sets foot into its 10th year since it was launched, coinciding with the World Radio Day! We have organised a day-long event from 8 am to 5 pm, titled ‘One Day Radio Jockey’ which welcomed […]
Photo Story: Wall Art on Climate Change by Radio Kotagiri
January 28, 2023 By Manickam & Ranjani PrasadAdditional Prog. Coordinator (Radio Kotagiri) & Programme Coordinator (PNC) The important documentation work done by our independent initiative Radio Kotagiri highlights the role of locally based community media in raising awareness of important topics concerning the Nilgiris and highlighting community stories. Over the weekend, Radio Kotagiri facilitated this […]
Tribal Leadership Workshop on Local Government
January 27, 2023 By Jeyanthi R. – Add. Programme Coordinator, People & Nature Collectives A workshop on panchayat systems was held at the Keystone campus today, organised by the People & Nature Collectives team. Nandakumar, founder of Thannatchi, a civil society organisation specialising in matters of local governance in Chennai, along with his colleague Gokul […]
Meet the Climate Historians of the Nilgiris
January 10, 2023 By Bhavya George and Madeleine GefkeProgramme Coordinator & Oberlin Shansi Fellow – Climate Change The climate crisis has taken centre stage in the global discourse with rising temperatures, increased extreme weather events and other consequences faced across the world. However, the topic is dominated by complexities of climate science. There is no […]
Explorations into Local Community Histories
December 27, 2022 By Daniel Samraj and Ranjani Prasad (People & Nature Collectives team) The People and Nature Collectives team has had an exciting couple of months of explorations into community histories and people’s understandings of the past. Many of the activities for the month fostered renewed interest for the team into local stories of […]
Year Two of Leadership Training for Adivasis: Updates from Sigur
October 18, 2022 By People & Nature Collectives This time last year, Keystone’s PNC team began working with Haiyya Foundation on providing a space for changemakers to grow for people of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) in the Nilgiris. With the support of Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiatives (APPI), 10 members of the Toda, Kotha, Irula, […]
