Do you want to go out and spend time teaching in India? We have opportunities for teachers of all subjects to go out to India for between 6 months and a year and teach in an International school. SCAD World School is a small but rapidly growing school with a high standard of teaching and a Cambridge syllabus. We are looking for teachers who are ready for a challenge and happy to throw themselves into another culture. We will provide you with a return flight to Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu as well as all your local food, transport and accommodation when you get there. If you are interested in this...

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Murray & Janet Frankland, founders of Salt of the Earth, visit the ‘model village’ Sevalkulam, in the Ottapidaram block to view the new fish culture initiative at the village ooranie (rainwater harvest tank). SCAD have been working with this village for around 20 years and have successfully established: Women’s Self Help Groups, supplementary education, energy management, sports youth groups, vetinary camps, income generating initiatives, health education, micro insurance, nutritional demonstrations, tree plantation, organic kitchen gardens, bio-char trial plots - as a result village...

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Tuticorin, the region in which SCAD works, receives 678mm of rainfall a year, which is 29% less than the average for the district. The communities who live in Tuticorin are already feeling the effects of drought, soil erosion and water depletion. Monsoon rains matter for crop irrigation and water supply, and people and livestock suffer heavily when the monsoon fails or is delayed. For the future of our communities in India we have started to plan adaptation strategies. To this end we have been planting between 80,000 and 100,000 new indigenous saplings every year since we began working in the community...

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