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December
2007
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An EXHIBITION
in the ISLAND of RE
IDES and the College of Saint
Martin de Re (Saint Martin de Ré secondary
school) have organised an exhibition aiming at displaying
the workshops done by both French and Indian children
who have been participating to the exchange
program we run together since 2006.
The exhibition has been inaugurated the 14th of December
in the Sainte Marie de Ré's public library and
will remain open to the public until end of january.
The exhibition opening was a great success. Around
50 persons were invited to attend the event, including
local authorities, College representatives and media.
We welcomed all guests in the exhibition room, then
we displayed a short introduction movie shot in Thazhanguda.
We presented afterwards the exhibition and IDES other
projects. We received very positive feedback from our
guests and we had articles in the local newspaper and
the local radio. All guests were also very impressed
about the talent displayed by both French and Indian
children...
Photo gallery
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December
2007
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A
INDIAN PARTY IN AN AFRICAN RESTAURANT IN BRUSSELS!
Friday 6th december, our Brussels IDES
team organised a party in a nice african restaurant
in Brussels. The party aimed at promoting our activities
in India and raised funds to support them. The party
was great, around 150 guests came and enjoy the party
until late at night.
Photo gallery
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August
2007
The picture exhibition ^
Delphine
at the stand ^
The party!
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A
CRAZY NIGHT IN PONDICHERRY!
Saturday 11th August
2007 we organized an event in Pondicherry (former french
colony where our local unit is based) at Le Toucan restaurant
in order to collect money and to speak about Nangal
activities.
A warm-up photo exhibition
From 6th August we launched an exhibition with about
30 pictures of Thazhanguda children, women and fishermen.
These pictures showed children during school, after
school and during daily life. But also women preparing
fish and playing and fishermen during their work. These
pictures were exhibited in all the restaurant and they
were on sale, until the 3rd of September.
The event, a full success!
One week after the picture exhibition opening, the event
took place. As planned, the event started at 7:30 pm
with Indian and continental buffet. People arrived little
by little and at 8:30 pm the restaurant was already
full! Victim of our success, we had to stop the buffet
at 9 pm. From 9 pm to 10 pm we had to refuse people
who wanted to eat, telling them to come back at 10 pm
when we will start the party! The party started at 10
pm with dance music. Everyone went dancing on the dance
floor. During the party, about 100 person came to support
us directly or indirectly. It was crazy! The restaurant
had never been as full as it was this evening. We never
expected such a success! We took advantage of this moment
to collect donations, moving – dancing - in the
restaurant with a donation box and encouraging people
to help us. The party was over at 2 am and people didn’t
want to leave the restaurant asking us to let the music
play. Most of them came afterwards to thanks us for
the good time they spent and told us to organize such
event again.
In spite of the difficulty to promote our project in
such an atmosphere, this event was a great occasion
to raise money and to have fun…witch is very encouraging!
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