Partner organisations and Networks

The Karuna Trust funded SECMOL’s weekly radio and TV programmes and other school reform mobilisation activities, and then a video about SECMOL’s youth programmes.

GERES. SECMOL is a partner organisation in the project “Improving the winter livelihoods of rural population and setting up sustainable network to disseminate energy efficiency in the cold desert of western Indian Himalayas.” We provide training to masons and carpenters in how to build solar-heated houses, and we produce TV and radio programmes and posters to disseminate interest in and knowledge of how solar-heated buildings work.

Vermont Intercultural Semesters (VIS) is an exchange programme the USA, that brings a group of 12 high school students and three teachers for a semester of intense cultural exchange twice a year. The spring semester is accredited and aimed at high school students from Vermont, while the fall semester is a gap year programme open to all high school and college students. They stay at SECMOL Campus and share in all the activities and work alongside the Ladakhi students, as well has helping the Ladakhis learn English, while they themselves learn about Ladakh, India, solar energy, and research.

Pravah is a youth organisation based in Delhi that develops leadership in youth through various activities and internships.

The Future Earth Network is an international network supporting initiative in development on the basis of social justice and ecological sustainability. The network has member organisations in Latin America, Asia and Sweden.

The World Mountain People's Association (WMPA) tries to make mountains understood in an international arena and at the level of each country and continent; and to organise North-South and South-South exchange and co-operation between mountain territories and populations, in order to share knowledge, means and experiences.

Manzil in Delhi is an informal youth organisation in Delhi, and we have had many fruitful exchanges between our students since Manzil first brought a group to SECMOL summer camp in 2001. Manzil has hosted SECMOL staff and students when they were in Delhi and provided innumerable interesting contacts and exchanges. Tehelka article, Outlook article
Manzil, Flat 13, Khan Market, New Delhi