The starting point of all our considerations is poverty, or rather, a degree of poverty which means misery, and degrades and stultifies the human person.
E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

WHAT'S GOING ON?

Walk for Water 2010 - Sunday 19th September, Hampton Wick, Surrey.
Click here for full details and to register your place.

Exhibition of Miniature Paintings: The Mesmerising Miniature - A Tradition Revived Curated by Anita Kapur &
Illustrated Talk: From A Clear Blue Sky - Surviving the Mountbatten Bomb
Timothy Knatchbull
Tuesday 30th November, Nehru Centre, London
For full details, please email Anita Kapur - kapur_anita@hotmail.com

Murugan's Story - our 5th Anniversary Appeal. Click here to find out more and help.

We need your help! We're recruiting several new volunteering positions.
Click here for full details

For more details about taking part in any of our events or organising your own, please email rosemary@jeevika.org.uk.

Karuppi's Story

News Flash

Once you get older like me, you can't carry heavy pots of water.

Karuppi Kumbiah, Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu Karuppi Kumbiah is 70 years old grandmother to nine children. She lives in a small village close to Tuticorin in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu. She explained the change in her family's life since Jeevika Trust, working with partner organisation, SCAD, helped to revitalise traditional rainwater-harvesting structures in her village meaning that a large source of clean water is now on her doorstep...

Read the rest of Karuppi's story...

August 11th, 2010 - Walk for Water
Come and join the team and Walk for Water with us on Sunday 19th September to raise money for our water projects. A lovely family day out with tea by the Thames at the end - for full details click here.

July 19th, 2010 - Team Jeevika - Dragon Boat Race
Congratulations to Team Jeevika 2010 for coming 8th out 47 teams in yesterday's Dragon Boat Challenge. Full amount raised will be announced soon but for now, see the pictures here. To watch a video of the day, including Team Jeevika in the final, click here.

July 13th, 2010 - More poor in India than Africa
A new study by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative has shown that there are more poor people in 8 of India's states that the 26 poorest African countries combined. To read more, click here.

June 7th, 2010 - Michael Wood's Lecture & Indian Bazaar
Tickets will be available on the door from 6pm for Michael Wood's Lecture 'The Last Civilisation? The Living Past in South India' and Indian Bazaar. The Lecture starts at 7pm. Click here for full details.

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