VSO Journals: Micheal Rozenkrantz (India)

Title: Micheal Rozenkrantz (India)

Status: Active

URL: http://michaelrosenkrantz.blogspot.com/

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Journey to the NBA All Star Game - 22/Feb/2019 20:46 - 2113 days ago

Journey to the 2019 NBA All Star Game in CharlotteAt 4.15 PM on January 31, 2019, I hung up the phone after participating in a c...

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A Mother and her Child in the World of Down Syndrome in Nepal - 14/Aug/2013 10:54 - 4131 days ago

Dr. Lalita Joshi, a retired Br .Gen. of Nepal Army Medical Corps with strict principals, simple and honest is driven by a deep l...

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Communications and Customer Service - 07/Aug/2013 06:57 - 4138 days ago

Communication and Customer ServiceIn the short time that I’ve been on the earth, the methods used for communicating have chang...

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Beauty and Gender - 03/Aug/2013 16:44 - 4142 days ago

Ultimately it isn’t about how externally beautiful a person is, but is more about what someone does with their abilitiesI’m ...

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Development and Partnerships - 28/Jul/2013 15:25 - 4148 days ago

Development and PartnershipsI wasn’t carrying an umbrella and as I jumped out of the bus into the rain I made a quick leap to ...

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FISHing - 14/Jul/2013 05:59 - 4162 days ago

FISHingPike Place Market in Seattle is considered the grandfather of public markets in the US having opened in 1907. ...

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Further Perceptions - 02/Jul/2013 17:50 - 4174 days ago

As I sat looking at the rain drenched runway and the line of airplanes waiting to take-off at LaGuardia Airport in New York City...

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Perceptions - 30/Jun/2013 05:30 - 4176 days ago

Written from New York City on my first evening back to the US after one year. Due to my“cheap” flight arrangements, and...

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Making Voices Heard - 18/Jun/2013 03:23 - 4188 days ago

On a recent Thursday I trudged through the rain, flooded and uneven muddy streets and sidewalks, in order to attend a program ti...

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I-MAN travels to ASU - 06/Jun/2013 14:46 - 4200 days ago

I-MAN’s[1]Visa AdventuresAfter spending one year on the planet of LAPEN, I-MAN wanted to reacquaint himself with one of his bi...

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Opening a Letter - 06/Jun/2013 06:37 - 4200 days ago

Opening a LetterAs usual, one recent morning while at my NGO CSRC in Dhapasi, I went to a small fruit shop to purchase breakfast...

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Breaking Barriers-Haruwa Charuwa - 06/Jun/2013 03:38 - 4200 days ago

Through my volunteer work at CSRC I was recently able to interview a number of Haruwa/Charuwa (mostly Dalits), who were in Kathm...

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Nepal - 01/Jun/2013 15:13 - 4205 days ago

I recently ventured, for the first time, to Pokhara and observed massive amounts of lush greenness as I peered out of the window...

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Mike's Speech-Creating a More Inclusive Society: Promoting Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities - 15/May/2013 06:20 - 4222 days ago

Thank you all so very much for coming today. This has been a long time coming, as we continue building the infrastruc...

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Losing Ego and Appreciating Others - 07/Apr/2013 07:20 - 4260 days ago

“That’s me in the corner, that’s me in the spotlight, losing my religion, trying to keep up with you, and I don’t know i...

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The Fertility of Imagination-Civil Society - 07/Apr/2013 06:00 - 4260 days ago

Civil society in the form of NGOs/INGOs seems to be regularly attacked as not providing much help to those in poverty, de-politi...

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I-MAN goes back to Dang - 28/Mar/2013 15:27 - 4270 days ago

Bhojman, a work colleague, had invited I-MAN to his village, Sonpur, but then he wasn’t invited, but then he was, but then a b...

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Holistic Development - 18/Mar/2013 11:58 - 4280 days ago

Holistic DevelopmentThrough volunteering at Community Self Reliance Centre (CSRC), a 20 year old Nepali NGO working in the areas...

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My Uncle Alan-A Life Remembered - 11/Mar/2013 02:41 - 4287 days ago

I walked past a number of funeral pyres atPashupatinathand stopped and stood to the side of one in which I saw a body being crem...

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Nepal's Female Activists Show the Need for International Action on Gender - 08/Mar/2013 16:09 - 4290 days ago

On International Women's Day I will be celebrating the many women I have met in Nepal who are challenging inequality by fighting...

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I-MAN finds out about Eprat’s 100% - 08/Mar/2013 16:06 - 4290 days ago

I-MAN wanted to spend time with friends, because he never really knew what might happen, but felt that he would be safe. H...

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Corporate Social Responsibility - 16/Feb/2013 15:50 - 4310 days ago

Corporate Social Responsibility in NepalBy Michael Rosenkrantz[1]"Corporate Social Responsibility is the continuing commitment b...

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Reasonable Accommodation - 16/Feb/2013 15:37 - 4310 days ago

Reasonable AccommodationBy Michael Rosenkrantz[1]“A reasonable accommodation is an adjustment made in a system to "a...

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Kirtipur Cup Basketball Tournament 2069-Nepal Basketball - 16/Feb/2013 12:59 - 4310 days ago

I’ve had a love affair with basketball for 50 years. I just can’t get enough of the sport and participate wherever I l...

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Untitled - 19/Jan/2013 13:52 - 4338 days ago

Basketball Nepal and Life’s LessonsWhile living in New Delhi from March 2009-February 2012, every Saturday night from 6-7:30 P...

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On Death in Nepal - 19/Jan/2013 09:57 - 4338 days ago

I recently experienced the festival of Maghe Sankranti as the only westerner in attendance in a village near Ghorahi, Dang Distr...

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Litter - 18/Jan/2013 04:18 - 4339 days ago

On my recent bus ride from Dang District to Kathmandu, I noticed two teenagers, eating several packages of potato chips. A...

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Inspirations - 17/Jan/2013 16:01 - 4340 days ago

My role of partnership builder for both VSO Nepal and Community Self Reliance Centre (CSRC) has led to numerous opportuniti...

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A good road leads to a wedding - 05/Jan/2013 12:45 - 4352 days ago

I-MAN had heard that there was going to be a wedding amongst the land rights community and pleaded with the best driver in Nepal...

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I-MAN's Village Life-Palpa - 01/Jan/2013 12:12 - 4356 days ago

I-MAN had long wanted to really experience what it might be like for most of the people of Nepal and asked his friend Imxa...

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Village Land Rights - 31/Dec/2012 10:17 - 4357 days ago

Village Land Rights[1]As a VSO volunteer I’ve been working, since July 2012, atCommunity Self Reliance Centre(CSRC), a Nepali ...

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Brown Sugar Restaurant in KTM - 20/Dec/2012 13:40 - 4368 days ago

When I first came into contact with the restaurant,“Brown Sugar” I was at a Social Entrepreneurship Bazaar on October 6 at B...

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Discoverabilities - 20/Dec/2012 13:37 - 4368 days ago

Typically I like to sleep late on weekends, but the mornings are when I play and coach basketball. From March 2009-Februra...

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Life in Nepal-One Volunteer’s Story[1] - 20/Dec/2012 13:32 - 4368 days ago

I learned a lot about living in another culture during my three years in India and upon returning to the US in March 2012, I kne...

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Wel-come to Reality - 01/Dec/2012 11:36 - 4387 days ago

The beautiful holiday of Tihar was coming up in Nepal and I-MAN wanted to get out of Kathmandu. I-MAN had this friend by t...

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I-MAN does not find wild pork - 11/Nov/2012 13:53 - 4407 days ago

Although I-MAN could fly, he had heard a lot about trekking in Nepal, something apparently invented by the many people who wante...

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I-MAN visits Kopan - 25/Oct/2012 05:39 - 4424 days ago

As he hadn’t truly rested in quite some time, I-MAN was really looking forward to theDasainFestival as a time to relax.&n...

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I-MAN Thinks About Fairness - 26/Sep/2012 03:18 - 4453 days ago

I-MAN had been thinking a lot about fairness today. He was wondering if there really was such a thing, especially in the c...

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I-MAN Comes to Nepal - 22/Sep/2012 13:37 - 4457 days ago

I-MAN the Jewish Indian superhero wanted to find further adventures and although his India chapters were not yet finished he dec...

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I-MAN the Beginning - 22/Sep/2012 04:32 - 4457 days ago

I-ManThe BeginningMany people throughout the world know about Batman and Robin, the Green Hornet, the Incredible Hulk, Fantastic...

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I-MAN the Beginning - 21/Sep/2012 13:09 - 4458 days ago

I-ManThe BeginningMany people throughout the world know about Batman and Robin, the Green Hornet, the Incredible Hulk, Fantastic...

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IMAN-The Beginning - 21/Sep/2012 11:29 - 4458 days ago