Thursday 12 March 2009

2009's World's Top 10 richest men.

The economic recession has hit the net worth of the world's billionaires and also the total number of billionaires dropped from 1,125 last year to just 793.
Top 10 list of the world's richest men and their net values (this year compared to last year).
1. Bill Gates

2009 - $40 billion

2008 - $58 billion

2. Warren Buffet

2009 - $37 billion

2008 - $62 billion

3. Carlos Slim

2009 - $35 billion

2008 - $60 billion

4. Lawrence Ellison

2009 - $22.5

2008 - $25 billion

5. Ingvar Kamprad

2009 - $22 billion

2008 - $31 billion

6. Karl Albrecht

2009 - $21.5 billion

2008 - $$27 billion

7. Mukesh Ambani

2009 - $19.5 billion

2008 - $$43 billion

8. Lakshmi Mittal

2009 - $19.3 billion

2008 - $45 billion

9. Theo Albrecht

2009 - $18.8 billion

2008 - $23 billion

10. Amancio Ortega

2009 - $18.3 billion

2008 - $20.2 billion

Friday 20 February 2009

Tips to be Happy in Life


Life and Time is not always the same. There are lots of up and downs most of the time. Therefore we need to confront ourselves and march forward that's what life is. We have some bad days and good days ahead to come so we need to prepare ourselves to cope up in the any adverse situation. There are some tips to be happy in life.It is easy to be said then to be done. Lets try........
1. Be a person with sense of humor
Happiness is not in-build we need to create. Always smile and make people laugh around you. It will reduce the stress. Life is short so enjoy life and make other too be the part of your happiness. If you are happy people around you will also be happy.
2. Be Positive and Optimistic
Don’t look back and repent for what you did and what u did not. Don’t look at the past just see where are u today and prepare what you will do tomorrow. Never loose hope and effort. If you get it its your if not it was never for you. If anyone hurts you forgive and forget. Don’t find faults in others
3. Be yourself and appreciate the environment
Never compare yourself with others. Feel unique in yourself. Respect others and yourself and feel pride for that. Never compare with others. Appreciate with what you have. Never see for the bad or the things that are missing. Don’t blame others.
4. Be Inspired
Be open, smile and talk to people. Listen to them and watch them and be inspired by their experience, their work etc. Love others hurt never. Avoid the things that hurt others and yourself. Talk to people calmly, politely and resolve matters. Clarify for what you have done and what you haven’t.
5. Be accessible
Stand on the back of people when they are in need. Tell them you are here. Be present in social work, volunteer by cooking, serving, washing in shelters and for people in gatherings, will fulfill the higher purpose in your life. When you give you receive.
6. Be Blessed
Blessing may not be big enough. Small rewards also play a vital role in life. Grab the opportunity to be blesses and keep them like a treasure and key of happiness and excel further. Count your tiniest blessings daily.
We might not be happy all the time. But we need to develop a positive framework in our mind and always make people happy around us and appreciate what they have and never search for what they don’t.

Wednesday 18 February 2009

SEWA (SELF EMPLOYED WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION) : Empowering Women


Women try to create opportunity around themselves with their constants and collective efforts. That grows self reliance and confidences. When they fail they do not lose their hope instead search for a better way to deal with it. However they face a social and economical problem. Therefore SEWA stands for them.
About 80% of India's women are economically active, but because they are largely self-employed and so lack employers, they are "invisible to the economic plan of the nation." SEWA is committed to helping self-employed women gain visibility and rights. 
It’s an organization of poor, self employed women workers who make living by their own labor or small business such as the street vendors, Hawkers, Home based workers, Manual labors and services providers.
It provides credits with low interest’s rates to women through SEWA Bank, health care, child care, work security insurance, legal services. Empower women’s for capacity building thereby educating, finding an employment, bargaining for wages and price of their goods and also for their employment rights. SEWA helps women for building houses and infrastructures. It co-operates with government for rural development programmers.
SEWA is not just an organization but a movement of labor, co-operation and women’s movement. It organizes campaign for home based workers so that their voice will reach to civil society and international organization such as ILO, Forest workers campaign, The water campaign, Campaign for our Right to Child Care, Campaign for Recognition of Midwives, Recognition of Unorganized Sector Workers, Vendors Campaign, Construction Workers' Campaign, Food Security Campaign, Minimum Wages Campaign
The voices, faces, work and lives of its members come live through Video SEWA. It is a powerful medium and one that is effective in bringing information about the world outside their village to its members. 
Women’s around the world were influenced with by SEWA so that they founded SEWA is in South Africa Durban, Yemen, Turkey. Video SEWA’s “My Life, My Work” won the Social Documentary Award at the Guidonia Film Festival in Guidonia, Italy. We are poor, but so many, written by SEWA founder Elaben Bhatt, takes readers into the world and work of self-employed women. The National Federation of Cooperative Banks, New Delhi, awarded SEWA Bank an award for “Excellent performance”.

Monday 16 February 2009

CCAP(Cross Cultural Awareness Program) in Namyang Special School, Daegu


Class Activity Showing Nepali Costume.


Student welcoming us with Korean National Anthem.


Class activites helping student to color the Nepal's flag.

Student presenting the certificate of appreciation from the school.

Group picture after the class

Saturday 31 January 2009

Disease of Stealing

When some comes to you and say that Ambassador was caught stealing a book from a library; a famous actress steals fork and spoons from a five star hotel or rollers, hair pins from a beauty saloon, a researcher stealing a test tube or a beaker. You might think that someone is lying you or that person is joking. How can you trust? A book might not be that expensive for an ambassador that he steals in a foreign soil? The fork, spoons, hair pins are that expensive for an actress or test tubes and beaker are that much expensive a researcher cannot afford? Then what is all this?
The real problem is such people are suffering from disease called Kleptomania and the patients are called kleptos. It is a psychological disorder that a kleptos impulse or subconsciously takes things of less value. They repeatedly take things that are not valuable, they feel increased tension right before the theft, feeling pleasure or relief at the time of the theft and they steal without feelings of anger or revenge. Some klepots often throw away the stolen goods, some return back after some time due to guilt or some they just keep those things they steal. Psychiatrists consider kleptomania as a disease, but there is no legal excuse for them.
Treatment of kleptomania typically involves medications and psychotherapy, perhaps along with self-help groups. However, there is no standard kleptomania treatment and researchers are still trying to understand what may work best. The drugs like antidepressants, mood stabilizers, tranquilizers are given to kliptons.
The cause of kleptomania is not known but it is due to the naturally occurring brain chemical called serotonin.
Complications of such disorders may result in arrest, imprisonment, depression, alcohol and substance abuse, eating disorders, anxiety, compulsive gambling or shopping, suicidal thoughts or behavior, social isolation.
Therefore this disease must be identified and treated. Otherwise kliptos may face lots of consequences in life. We need to join hands to make people aware of this disease rather than hiding and physically and verbally abusing such patients.