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HomeCommunity Matters

Community Matters

Community Matters blog is a space to share insights and relevant solutions about community issues. It documents development work happening at the grass root, involving the community and all the relevant stakeholders at different levels of the action.
Sinu Joseph is an engineer, who is currently working in the social space, understanding the last mile connections from ground zero.

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Community Matters

Lake Rejuvenation: Understanding the basics

October 15, 2013 Sinu Joseph

All the chaos and disturbance of urban living quietly gets washed away when you stand in front of a lake and allow its spirit to engulf you. For some time now, Bhaskar and I have

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Why the garbage crisis has no end

September 27, 2013 Sinu Joseph

One week. One well-planned week is all it will take to make an entire locality having around 1000 households to start segregation. So if we had just about 10 interested people in each ward, we

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It is time we talked about Menstruation

September 25, 2013 Sinu Joseph

How can I ever talk about it? These are the opening lines that play on most women’s mind when it comes to even thinking about menstruation and all the embarrassing moments that surround it. All women,

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Volunteer to make segregation at source happen at Konanakunte ward

September 21, 2013 Sinu Joseph

We invite volunteers to join us in making 100% segregation happen at source by empowering the garbage collectors in Konanakunte, ward no. 195. What you have to do You will begin by shadowing an existing

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Empowering the garbage collectors is the first step to segregation

September 18, 2013 Sinu Joseph

Nearly 100% segregation and separate collection is now happening through the BBMP in the area covering 850 individual homes in Chunchaghatta. This transformation has been possible in just three weeks! This write up is intended

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Menstrual hygiene is not about sanitary napkins

September 15, 2013 Sinu Joseph

When I started the Menstrual Hygiene Awareness initiative three years ago, in government schools, I assumed the answer to menstrual hygiene was distributing sanitary napkins. So we got donors and napkins and gave them for

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Getting involved with the community

September 11, 2013 Sinu Joseph

What would be possible if nothing came in our way of doing what we wanted? What if we dedicated our complete self, awake, asleep and in dreams, to work? What if we went all out

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