Travel Stories and Life Events
Immediately after Tsunami I joined Save the Children UK as Finance and Grants Officer in Sri Lanka in 2005….I was posted in Matara the southern province in Sri Lanka….Like southern province other parts of Sri Lanka like Trincomalai,Batticolai,Ampara, were most affected..in south Galle,Hiikaduwa,Matara and some stress o Ambantota were affected…Pascale Benchayat (she is a Frech … Read more
I first met Joe Human in Oxfam Bangalore where Oxfam conducted a training programme on staff development related where Joe was the facilitator. I can remember exactly UT was my early days in Oxfam..I was very young straight from college..sometime early 1980s….doesn’t have much exposure . Then after that Joe and his wife came to … Read more
OITSA – OXFAM India Trust Staff Association – Oxfam has its field officies all over India – to name Hyderabad,Lucknow,Kolkata,Bhubaneswar,Ahmedabad and Bangalore. Since Oxfam has a large number of staff across these State level offices above. Oxfam has its headquarters in Oxford, UK. Since Oxfam has been working since 1942 – has been the top … Read more
Two pieces of Two Rupee note in Ahmedabad While working for Oxfam I had to attend a workshop in Ahmedabad…To reach Ahmedabad I had to take a flight from Kolkata to Mumbai and from there another flight to Ahmedabad…reached late night… my flight to Ahmedabad was cancelled..hence I had to take next morning flight..the airlines … Read more
As i may have mentioned in my previous posts that i was selected at Block level (The Block Education Officer ask for some student names who can participate in a competitive exam. From our school few students were selected and i was one of them. The day the exam took place our school teacher took … Read more
As I mentioned in my previous post our village got electricity..May be it was around 1975…now I feel we were lucky to have electricity as even today after 76 years or so of our Independence still many villages have no electricity connections…who are responsible…you all know so I won’t mention here.. what I learnt till … Read more
You all know mine and my families studies were with kerosine lamp for several years of my life… when the first electric pole was installed I can’t explain how Happy we were..and from then on wherever polls were installed our children group followed them… for us the pieces of aluminum wires were precious as each … Read more
As you know my village Panchali is in an area categorised as tribal development area. The area is very backward area and the villages are adjacent as the distance ranging from 2kms to 3kms from each village. Panchali is far developed compared to the adjacent villages..hence the villagers comes to Panchali for studies upto 7th … Read more
I was with UNDP at Bhubaneswar before joining Interact Worldwide..a UK based NGO working in different parts of the world supporting local NGOs… I applied for Country Finance Advisor India position with IWW (Interact World wide)..this position was a Consultancy assignment working from home reporting to IWW UK on daily basis and taking care of … Read more
Though my career in NGO/Development sector goes back to few decades, I was in break period after my assignment with Interact Worldwide (will write about that assignment). Some of my friends knew that i was looking for some consultancy assignments based in Bhubaneswar but was prepared to move around the projects in the country. One … Read more