Podcast - still in Kolguli - Phoebe and the elder midwife and Nat sings with the tribal children

In this podcast, Phoebe meets an elder midwife in Kolguli and speaks to her about childbirth practices over the years within her tribe.  I also have a sing-song with some of the kids who burst out laughing when I started to sing which I'm sure was a compliment?

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Podcast - Keystone and the honey gatherers

Keystone was really interesting for the group as they work with the tribes in a similar way to ACCORD - but the organisational structure and approach feels very different.  There were heated debates on the bus afterwards about the benefits and drawbacks of both approaches.

In summary, ACCORD's structure is completely flat and tribal-led and Keystone took a much more structured approach, familiar to us westerners.  After being in the bosom of Stan's teaching up until this point (founder of ACCORD), many of us felt the differences quite strongly which led to some really interesting discussions around leadership, top-down, down-up, upside-down etc etc...

In this podcast, hear Sean Coughlan and Matthew Farmer and the group describe the project and eat lots of honey.

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Podcast - Gudalur - ACCORD and the tribal hospital

We left the Green Hotel in Mysore for bamboo huts in the jungle near Gudalur.

Our first visit the next day was to the tribal hospital set up by Accord.  Apart from the doctors, the hospital is run entirely by members of the tribal community for the tribal community. 

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