Since 2022, FIN has been collaborating with Engineers without Borders (EWB) to explore and promote innovative solutions to problems linked to the WaSH sector (water, sanitation and hygiene). Every year, FIN offers challenges from the Kameswaram village context to EWB, to be proposed to hundreds of students in Ireland. In…
Activities at FIN are guided broadly by a set of principles. In this series, we introduce them to you with examples. We encourage teachers to use our true tales in classes, as stories always help students remember concepts! #Circular Economy Consumption How do we consume today? We buy…
Abhishek Pathak has taken FIN to Jharkhand – where he has opened the FIN Centre for Digital Skilling. This was inaugurated by the Honorable Shri Nityanand Pathak, who gave his blessings for the success of this initiative. Abhishek Pathak joined FIN as an intern in 2020 and has…
Hello everyone, I am Anurag, a new member in the FIN group. I live in the capital city of India, New Delhi. One of the cities with fastest rate of urbanization paralleled with a low urban growth. My daily bus travel between laboratory to home over the past 4 years…
As we dream and work towards improving the lives of girls and women at Kameshwaram, let me share with you all a little story that I wrote many years back for Joanna. (Thank you!). There was this special girl in Kameshwaram, who was extremely physically challenged and nearly blind. Her…
I was at this conference, and I caught sight of Prof. Carl Pray, internationally renowned for his work on agriculture in developing countries including India. Though I do not share his enthusiasm for genetically modified plant varieties or newer biotech techniques like Crispr – his views are based on rigorous…
May, 2017 “I have an assignment for you!” Prof. Shyama V. Ramani of UNU-MERIT said. “You are going to visit a typical Indian village – a representative village in a developing country. Immerse yourself. Observe carefully. At the end of your visit, tell me your opinion on why the state…
December 2016 THE FACE OF THE CITY THAT WE IGNORE – Visiting Delhi as a tourist is all about relishing the ancient glory of the capital encapsulated by the contemporary style of art and architecture. But visiting Delhi as environmental enthusiasts, a bunch of us from Friend In Need India,…
