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Dear Friends & Colleagues, Greetings from Nada India … Nada India Foundation & Indian Association of Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist (IAADS)  are pleased to announce the   Training workshop on use of ear acupuncture as per NADA Protocol for addiction treatment and general well being   to be held at Indian Social Institute Lodhi Raoad  South Delhi on 29 th Jan .2012 The workshop will be conducted by Dr. Michael O. Smith, Psychiatrist & Acupuncturist from New York and facilitated by Suneel Vatsyayan (A brief is attached) The workshop aims to facilitate a shared understanding of importance of barrier free services and skill in use ear acupuncture as an adjunct treatment at all stages of addiction treatment  (pre admission, detoxification and rehabilitation and after care).  This workshop also provides trainees with skills to use ear acupuncture (NADA Protocol three points) under general supervision of Dr. Michael O. Smith acupuncturist an...

Bengal hooch tragedy: More than 150 people died and 350 are in hospital Category:   Development ,  Family ,  Policy ,  Poverty ,  Prevention ,  Rehabilitation ,  Social costs ,  Youth Children Email Share on Twitter Share on Facebook The victims were mostly labourers, rickshaw-pullers and hawkers. A 12-year old girl is among the victims which is another concern for all of us. Two-thirds of the alcohol consumed in India is illegal hooch. Preliminary reports indicate that the hooch was sold in sachets, priced between Rs.7 and Rs.20, virtually opposite a police post in the area.  What the Government can offer as a compensation is Rs.two Lakhs to each victim family, what else? And society at large  will forget this tragedy too. In 2008 nearly 200 people died of similar alcohol poisoning in Bangalore, and 136 people died of the same cause in Gujarat state where alcohol use is banned by law. In 2009, Gujarat is the first state in India...

Bridge of Smile , is an organization for students and is conducted also by students. Bridge of Smile creates an opportunity for the young people to look at the situations in developing countries and become interested in them. Making use of that opportunity, we focus on increasing the number of young people, including ourselves, who can actively think and take action for themselves. Currently, there are many Japanese young people who obtain information about developing counties through the media. However, it is likely that those people have a hard time knowing how the people in developing countries are living, what kind of thoughts they have, what kind of problems there are, and how Japanese people are working at the grass roots level in those countries. This lack of understanding could lead to a difficulty to raise the young people’s motivation to learn more about the current situations in developing countries. In such a status quo, we create an opportunity especially for the st...

Now Adolescent Policy The Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development initiated the dialogue for separate “adolescent policy”.  According to them, India has a sizable adolescent population and there is no adolescent policy. On initiative of Institute, the meeting of experts of the field was held in institute’s campus on 5 th  October 2011. Dr. S. N. Subba Rao, Chairman, Indian Committee of Youth Organization (ICYO) attended the meeting

Rising consumerism poses challenges Category:   Development ,  Family ,  Freedom ,  Marketing ,  Poverty ,  Prevention ,  Social costs Email Share on Twitter Share on Facebook “I deserve to be different from others . I belong to the new consuming class  because I worked for it. I earned it .  This is a better way to prove my social mobility by having a right (still limited right as per income ) to consume,” says Anil, 30 year old from  Delhi NCR Gurgoan  who working in a Multi National Company. The new class, consuming class, is found among the traditional middle class in India, especially in metropolitan cities.  This is really a market driven new identity  which is built on a happy or unhappy past. People would like to keep this consuming class identity as a sign of success. In a recent  Hindustan Times news paper  article with the headline “The many classes  in the middle” the  writer Rama Bijapur...

IOGT International, on International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, calls on decision-makers worldwide to step up efforts to eradicate poverty. "The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Number 1 is `To Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger’. But eleven years into the new Millennium a tremendous rate of poverty continues to be a threat to people’s freedom and dignity," says Mr. Sven-Olov Carlsson, the President of IOGT International. According to the United Nations Development Program, the world has made progress towards achieving the MDGs, yet some countries are lagging and many of them may not be able to reach their goals. [1] "That’s what IOGT International’s call today is all about: to look closely at the facts and reasons why the global community is failing to eradicate poverty: a key problem that went unnoticed for too long is Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors like alcohol or tobacco use," emphasizes Mr. Carlsson. the World Health O...