Tailoring store for Indian women

Difficulties in the search for work and the lack of guides and development tools for the poorer population very often lead to serious problems such as juvenile alcoholism and social disintegration.

Until today, Yatra has committed itself to providing the basic means for a modest but significant social development, equipping schools and clinics, planning work projects and basic computer courses, with the hope of providing some tools necessary for the recognition of the dignity of person.

The presence on the field, however, has made aware the Association of the urgency to offer a particular support to that youthful band abandoned to itself and without a future, exposed to harmful social wounds, first of all that of alcoholism.

The path to be taken to contribute to circumscribing this problem is long and less immediate than the actions taken so far. Furthermore, Yatra does not yet have the necessary tools to read the situation and activate a committed intervention project. Taking an example from the experience in the West it has been hypothesized that a sports aggregation project was one of the most valid forms of support for the youth world, an initial engine for a social activity that succeeds in proposing values and incentives towards long-term objectives.

Yatra is convinced of the validity of youth sporting aggregation as a tool to promote better growth, especially if guided by educators who are not only attentive to the competitive and technical aspect but also to human and social formation.

For these reasons, Yatra began its path of support for young people with a sports project by launching a basketball course open to young people aged 14 to 18 and proposing to organize mini-tournaments for basketball, volleyball, animation, aimed at all young people between the ages of 6 and 18.

The medium-term objective is to train two basketball teams able to participate in local tournaments. The long-term goal is to create a group of young people, to be able to understand their problems and to lay the foundations for a broader social project.

The village, the Adivasi, the embers - Meeting with Jacinta Kerketta


Jacinta Kerketta, a young poet, freelance activist and journalist originally from West Singhbhum, on the border between Jharkhand and Orissa, will be in Italy for a very rich promotional tour of her first collection of poems, Brace (Angor), written in Hindi and already translated into English , German and now Italian for the types of Mirages editions.

Jacinta Kerketta's works are linked to the sufferings and anger of India's tribal societies and give voice to stories of displacement, violence, hunger, dams, Maoist guerrillas, corruption and apathy of those who should govern. The female point of view emerges firmly from her verses, together with a strong bond with the land, the forest and the waters that form the foundation of the adivasi identity and which are threatened by the development policies of the Indian state.

 

Jacinta will present "Brace" through an all-Italian touring tour that will involve several universities and libraries:

 

IN TURIN…

09/05, h 16-18: lecture at the University of Turin, Department of Humanistic Studies (Room 1.6, Palazzo Venturi, Via Giuseppe Verdi 25). The author will discuss with the author Alessandra Consolaro

10/05, h 21: presentation of the book "Brace" in the context of the OFF Show at the Trebisonda Library (Via Sant'Anselmo 22). The translator and prof. Will be present with Jacinta. Alessandra Consolaro and journalist Daniela Bezzi

11/05 h 19: Solidarity apricena and meeting on 'the village, the adivasi, the embers' at emporium pandan, via san Pio V, 15