The practice of maintaining kitchen gardens is not new to Indian villages, however, it has been dying out over the past 20 years or so. Such gardens have huge potential to combat various diseases. A kitchen garden can help decrease malnutrition or under-nutrition, especially in children, pregnant women and lactating mothers. It is a demanding […]

AmritaSREE has a growing presence across the nation, with the SHG women in many villages being taught plumbing and being hired to construct their own toilets under supervision. It is the women of the SHGs who construct toilets for themselves as well as for the rest of the village, earning a livelihood for themselves and […]

Lemon grass grows wild and plentiful in the hills of Valaramkunnu, one of the tribal villages adopted by the Amrita SeRVe 101 village project in Kerala. The Live-In-Labs project under the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, in which students are sent to the field to identify opportunities and design solutions, took the initiative to work with the […]