Once you get older like me, you can't carry heavy pots of water.
 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...
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November, 23rd 2011 - Lagoon of Crabs
Volunteer and travel writer, Candace Rardon recently Jeevika Director on a visit to Mahinsa Island. Read her impressions of our island project 'Letter from India: the lagoon of crabs' by clicking here.
October, 11th 2011 - innocent Walk for Water
innocent smoothies have long supported our work in Orissa but this year one of their employees, Geraldine, joined our Walk for Water. Geraldine, along with her boyfriend Alexis, raised over £300 and shared her day on the innocent blog.
September, 25th 2011 - Walk for Water
Thank you to everyone who came and Walked for Water with us yesterday! We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. It's now time to start collecting your sponsorship and we'll update you all once we know how much we raised.
September, 5th 2011 - Big Thanks!Another big thank you to Leila Redpath for organising her fascinating 'Greenwich, Docklands & the Rise of East India Trade' tour yesterday. If you'd like to join Leila for her follow up tour 'Tipu's Tiger and the India Museum' click here for details.
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