Category: India

Goats ARE NOT goats ARE NOT goats …

On By Daniel EmigIn Food, GHNI, Goat, IndiaLeave a comment

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Goats-For-India are as intricate to GHNI’s TCD plan as it gets!  When it comes to micro-enterprise initiatives, goats rank high.

India has about 20 breeds of goats and they are raised primarily for milk and meat.  Choosing a “best” breed for a given village cluster location isn’t always easy.  There is always the local goat market, usually held each Friday near a fairly major town center.  Two of the better breeds sought out are:

*   Jamnapari is one of the largest goats in India; it has been extensively utilized to upgrade indigenous breeds for meat and milk, and has been taken to  near by countries for the same purpose.

*   Beetel is a good dairy breed, second to Jamnapari in size but is superior to it in that it is more prolific and more easily adaptable to different agro-ecological conditions and to stall-feeding.

But these specific breeds tend to be expensive and it can get cumbersome to raise such breeds with their needs for more expensive vaccinations, etc..  So as we work with local village leaders, it is important that we listen well to their input and make plans with their “embracement” of any TCD initiatives.  From that base, there is a much higher success to any micro-enterprise goat business.

Thanks for your financial input in making these goat micro-enterprise endeavors a possibility!   Dan

Anti-HT Newsletter intro …

On By Daniel EmigIn human trafficking, India, sexual exploitationLeave a comment

200 women came walking through the breezeway at 10:00am into an old building in Kolkata(Calcutta), India.  During the time just before their day of work at the clothing center, it came in a strong grip to me … these women were actually “saved”, saved from the slavery of the sex trade industry.  Photography and interviews were forbidden due to all types of risks to these women and those helping them.  We were however allowed to speak openly with the leadership, in this one of seven organizations we the GHNI team investigated for our TCD work in the “source” villages these women came from.  Words cannot describe how sobering it was.  Most trickery and deception comes when the girls are hardly or not at all in puberty.  Within a ½-mile radius of our location, there were 20,000 women in prostitution, with 40,000 clients each night.  The 200 women in front of us seemed so few in comparison.

Symbolic Art of anti-Human Trafficking

Anti-Human Trafficking

On By Daniel EmigIn GHNI, human trafficking, India, sexual exploitationLeave a comment

Back from Kolkata(Calcutta), India … where half of our trip was invested in building relationships and a deeper understanding of how GHNI can assist and work alongside people and organizations already involved in anti-human trafficking.  “Sober” is putting it extremely lightly, as we the team of three began to delve into and more deeply understand this devastating and complex work among a diverse group of organizations and philosophies pressing into these needs.  Photography and personal interviews were simply not allowed; and for many-MANY good reasons.  It was an experience I will never forget!         Please note picture is blurred for privacy issues.  

Women & Children (blurred)

Human Trafficking & TCD

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Prostitutes in red light district, India.

GHNI is committed to TCD-Transformational Community Development for many reasons.  One vital reason is that via TCD, incomes

Mumbai, India a mom with a photo of her lost daughter (credit: "Kay Chernush for the U.S. State Department.")

become self-sustaining in villages; villages that are preyed upon by those sponsoring human trafficking.  Our work and co-laborative efforts with other organizations fighting against human trafficking and sexual exploitation is vital.  Working together with others, we in GHNI focus in on prevention at its core, preventing the reasons for these women and children from entering into exploitation environments to begin with.

February and early March, I will be part of a team that goes to Kolkata and a number of villages near there, working with anti-human trafficking TCD planning and doing media footage, seeking to raise awareness and funding for these crucial needs.  Preparations are in full swing for this at present!