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“No School, No Skateboarding!” in Chinese, by Lau Waiyiu aka Miki on the Chinese online platform BIE. Miki really manages in a good presentation to provide background information. She is digging deeper than many other journalists do. Here is a rough translation of the article into English … Rough! No school, no skateboarding!The story of […]
The first “SkatStatS exhibit” is ready to use! On three panels we explain six different ways of counting: the Egyptian, Babylonian, Mayan, Roman and Indian way of counting plus how computers deal with numbers. The texts are in Hindi and English and address the rural youth. The texts were written in cooperation with Rina Singh, […]
Written by Anil Kumar. Last night we had a film screening at our Villa Janwaar. “Janwaar” – a short documentary by Danny Schmidt. Gopal and Arun have helped me to set up all the technical stuff and made it run. We invited the kids and parents.They all were curious to see “Janwaar” – a documentary […]
@Mountainfilm 2021 USA / Duration: 11 minsDirected by: Danny Schmidt In one of the largest and poorest states in India, there lies a community skate park built-in 2015. Ulrike Reinhard, the creator of this Janwaar Castle, is all about challenging the status quo and providing a safe space for kids to find their own way. […]
Written by Anil Kumar Satoshi has been suffering. His foot was literally falling apart and turning back and brown. This went on for seven months. I got to know about it from my father. I went to his farm three weeks ago with my father and clicked some photos and sent them to Ulrike. We […]
1.5 years ago we bought more than 150 SAWYER water filters for the villagers of Janwaar. They are very happy these days to have them. The heatwave and the lack of proper drinking water (all wells are dried out in Janwaar or have only very bad quality water) transform these filters to survival kits for […]
The idea. SkateStatS is a numeracy and data literacy project – literacy on topics related to mathematics, probability and statistics – that has recently started in Janwaar. The project is endorsed by the Swiss Statistical Society (SSS) the Italian Statistical Society (SIS) and the Società degli Accademici Italiani in Svizzera (SAIS) . The SSS and […]
Over the last two months Pappu and his team of locals have been working hard to give the courtyards of our Villa Janwaar and the neighbouring land of the forest department a new look. After renovating what was already there and painting all the walls the first goal was to avoid the ponding of the […]
Today the kids went to Hinauta Gate at Panna National Park to see th elephants. I asked Asha to call me once they’ve reached. I haven’t seen the elephants for more than 2 years now – and I really, really miss them! So nice that Asha walked around the camp and showed me the animals […]
On 21 March Asha got a phone call from Surjeet, a friend of the Barefoot Skateboarders, in Delhi. He asked her, if she was interested in participating in an ad for IPL Royal. And to be very honest, we had no idea w hat IPL was 🙂 D Cast Track, a casting company, in Delhi, […]