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A very special trek – Part 1 It had been a while since I wanted to climb to the top of the mountain on which I built my house. My house is located in a village overlooking the Tirthan Valley, somewhere in the Indian Himalayas. The Tirthan is one of the three major rivers inLire la suite « A very special trek »

Methodology for development aid within indigenous rural communities Understanding how development works in tribal villages (see the post “What is development?”), I found a way to intervene for development aid. I converted it into a methodology that makes development a self-chosen path and that reduces the side-effects of development aid to the minimum. The methodology involvesLire la suite « A methodology for development aid »

It seems that trying to define “development” is an exercise as arduous as trying to define “happiness” or “love”.Here I would like to explain how I understand the development phenomenon as it happens within indigenous rural communities, based on my experiences in some tribal villages. Let’s first remember that within any community, there is aLire la suite « What is development ? »