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Thank you to everyone who attended the second global WiserLocal organizers call of 2013 - it was a great success!

See the report back ▶

Notes from January's call ▶

Organizer Francis held Kumasi's second WiserLocal of the year on April 22nd. The group celebrated Earth Day by discussing the prevention of fire outbreaks in their community and hearing from the head of the forestry department in Kumasi.

In India, Namrata celebrated Earth Day 2013 with a WiserKolkata gathering entitled "Know Yourself". This included presentation by several professional therapists, with the intent of teaching how to heal oneself as a means of healing the earth. The meeting concluded with plants gifted to each attendee.

WiserLocal Kolkata held another meet the previous month on March 22nd that focused on a documentary called Hungry for Change. Attendees viewed the film, ate delicious organic food, and discussed how to eat and live healthfully, for both your body and mind.

Edwin's second WiserLocal gathering was held in partnership with Earth Day Network and in honor of Earth Day 2013! He met with the board of his organization, IRCCA, to discuss Wiser.org, and visited schools in Kumbo to educate the children about the dangers of climate change.

WiserLocal Sandton's latest gathering on March 20th, in partnership with FTFA's Green Drinks Sandton, featured a presentation by OgilvyEarth South Africa. A representative from the organization led the group in a discussion around green brand sustainability, market a green product, and conscious advertising.

We are all connected!

Thanks to the energy and dedication of WiserLocal organizers all over the world, there have been 137 WiserLocal gatherings in 35 different cities in the world.

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Stories

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"These meets are a great place to meet like-minded people, to learn, share, express, get inspired and grow. Personally for me it has been very transforming experience."

~ Praveen Nahata, WiserLocal Kolkata attendee

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2013

• Digital storytelling for NGOs (Camilla, Paris)

• Experiences, insights & creating dialogue with a WiserLocal in China (Mobei, Beijing)

• Twitter : Canal d’engagement, d’influence et de collecte pour les ONG (Camilla, Paris)

• WiserLocal Sandton: Green Drinks with Jane Griffiths (Jeunesse, Sandton)

• Water Safety and Pollution in Kumasi, Ghana (Francis, Kumasi)

• WiserLocal Casentino: Feedback Riunione (Carolina, Casentino)

• Healing from Toxic Relationships, Heartbreak, and Creating Evolutionary Partnerships (Namrata, Kolkata)

• An Introduction to Wiser.org and Understanding the Volunteer Program (Edwin, Kumbo)

• l'Art de Narrer une Histoire pour les ONG (Camilla, Paris)

• From Kumbo to Tokyo: Many "Firsts" for the WiserLocal Program (Wiser.org blog) 

• WiserLocal Casentino: Co-Creating Change (Carolina, Casentino)

• Green Brand Sustainability and Conscious Advertising (Jeunesse, Sandton)

• Wiser Day Italia 2013, (English) (Roberto, Ariccia)

• Challenges and Difficulties of Graduating Women in China (Jessica, Beijing)

• Earth Day Celebration and Fire Outbreaks in Ghana (Francis, Kumasi)

• My First Wiser Experience: Hungry for Change (Namrata/Surjasha, Kolkata)

• Educating School Children About Climate Change (Edwin, Kumbo)

• Earth Day and Knowing Yourself (Namrata, Kolkata)

• Greening Your Office (Lindsey, Sandton)

2012

• Creating space for collaboration in India and beyond (Camilla, Delhi, India)
  
  
• WiserLocal Casentino Reportback (Carolina, Casentino, Italy)
  
  
• WiserLocal Imola Reportback (Carolina, Imola, Italy)
  
  
• WiserLocal Dhaka: Peace gathering for community building (Adib, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
  
  
• WiserLocal Paris:Social innovation in Europe, Collaboration & slash/slash  (Camilla, Paris)
  
  
• WiserDelhi: Individual Social Responsibility (Yatin, Delhi, India)
  
  
• WiserKolkata & Universal peace (Namrata, Kolkata, India)
  
  
• WiserLocal in Delhi - Excess consumption is a global challenge (Yatin, Delhi, India)
  
  
• Bangalore is more than a concrete jungle (Sushant, Bangalore, India)
  
  
• WiserOrganizer spotlight: Adib Ratul (Bangladesh) (Adib, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
  
  
• Vibrations from RioRaps, Report backs (Peggy, Bay Area, US)
  
  
• The challenges and rewards of volunteerism (Sushant, Bangalore, India)
  
  
• Climate change focus of latest WiserDelhi (Laura, Delhi, India)
  
  
• From Bangladesh to the Blue Mountains (Adib in Dhaka & Celeste, Blue Mountains, Australia)
  
  
• RioRaps launches WiserBayArea (Deborah, Bay Area,  US)
  
  
• Excess consumption is a global challenge (Yatin, Delhi, India)

2011

• What's stopping us all from going green - WiserTuesdays @ LaRuche (Paris, France)
  
  
• Connecting Globally, meeting locally - WiserJakarta @ Green Artspace (Bowo, Jakarta, In)
  
  
• Social development & sustainability - WiserLocal Delhi @ Moonlighting (Yatin, Delhi, India)
  
  
• WiserCameroon members support ICT use 4 development (Mainsah, Yaounde, Cameroon)