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New grant – from project to program collaboration in India
Something new must happen! From New Year's (01.01.24) we will collaborate with Ahead Initiatives and their CSO partners in India to create a so-called program. After 13-14 years in which we have completed several projects, each with their own grant, we start as of 1...
Reports from the project visit 2022: Video materials as a learning tool in The Education Project
One evening in November 2022, we, the Danish representatives from iiINTERest, arrived at AHEAD's permanent office, 'field station', in Malda in South Dinajpur District in West Bengal, where a small branch of Ahead's educational activities unfolds. Contrary to many of...
The Handicraft Project phase 3: A new grant to promote local crafts
While in the first two phases of the craft project we have worked to improve the conditions of weavers, dyers and others associated with silk production in Tantipara in Bankura district, we have gradually gained the courage to spread the idea and work to other...
Ahead on a visit to Denmark
All good times 7! This was the motto we followed when iiINTERest's (hereafter ii) board went to Kastrup on 11 June 2022 to receive a small delegation of Ahead Initiative's (hereafter Ahead) employees and board members at the airport. For the first time since 2008, we...
Handicraft project – now on national TV
The Handicraft project has been doing terrifically since its beginning in 2018. More villagers have gotten engaged in the project, a common House for learning and teaching has been erected, and the local authorities have started seeing the potentials of reviving the...
New year and Corona
2021 has begun, and so has a new calendar year in our small association. 2020 was the year of Corona, both here in Denmark but in particular in Eastern India, where our local partners are. As with so many other things, disease strikes harder where poverty is greatest,...
Online ‘project visit’
At this time of year, the board of iiINTERest usually zips their backpacks and travels to India on project visits. But this year, ‘usually’ does not exist. Due to the Corona pandemic it has been impossible to travel. Instead, this year's monitoring and project visits...
Afterschool project
On March 11, iiINTERest submitted to CISU an application for a completely new project, namely the After School Project. The idea for the initiative was planted as early as 2014. At that time, four employees from Ahead's management visited Denmark and paid a visit to...
Project visit 2019
We are always looking forward to the annual project visit, to meet with our friends in Ahead in Kolkata and to be in the villages and the schools and see ideas transform into reality. This year’s visit was as much a fantastic and positive experience as previous years....
Rejected visa applications
Once again, the visa applications, that should have allowed four Ahead employees to visit Denmark this summer, have been rejected. The stay would have been the second visit out of a series of capacity building exchange visits, which are imposed on all organizations...