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Dialogue meeting on poverty alleviation in India and Nepal
On Tuesday, January 23, 2024, iiINTERest hosted a dialogue meeting at CISU's premises at Vartov in Copenhagen. The room, provided by CISU for the purpose, was named 'Mathilde Fibiger'. This came with a certain obligation. Mathilde Fibiger was indeed one of the first...
Handicraft Project: The Story of One Cocoon That Became Many Saris
Creating development and finding a common path for communication when culture and language pose a challenge can be paved with significant obstacles. Therefore, we have utilized the shared nature that encompasses us all as a starting point for how silk can be produced...
The board on a project visit to India
When the winter chill prompts us to huddle under warm blankets and the heavy winter coats are unearthed from closets, at iiINTERest, we know that it is soon time for a project visit. This year, the project visit took place later than in previous years, namely from...
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...