Debbie's Placement in India 2018

The Social Education and Development Society (SEDS) is a grassroots non-governmental organisation (NGO) working in Anantapur District, Andhra Pradesh, India. The SEDS Biogas CDM Project carried out the installation of 5,000  Deenbandhu  fixed  model  biogas digesters of 2m 3   capacity. These digesters were installed in single households across 5 Mandals within Anantapur District, and training was provided to the householders regarding how to feed organic waste, primarily cattle dung, into the digester and how to harvest the slurry afterwards for use as an improved fertiliser for cultivation. The biogas itself can be used in a stove top, provided and installed by SEDS, for cooking and heating hot water. The project aimed to reduce the use of non-renewable biomass burned in wood fired stoves, which are commonly used in the villages, replacing this with more efficient, clean, and sustainable biogas. A potentially crucial element of the SEDS biogas project ...

Cultural Tourism - A Critical Review of Opportunities of Cultural Tourism Cultural tourism has no firm definition, however it can be regarded as the style of tourism associated with a country’s or region's culture, including but not limited to: regional history, the local lifestyle, cuisine, religion(s), art and architecture and so on, through which the tourist gains cultural information and experiences. According to the OECD (2009), this sector of tourism is both the largest and the fastest growing, meaning that any impacts upon the host location and its people will be increasingly significant. Such impacts are varied, and can have both positive and negative consequences for local people. Where these impacts arise from tourists travelling from richer, developed nations to poorer, developing ones, the economic disparity can give rise to power imbalances which can further exacerbate socio-cultural impacts. In order to travel ethically by enhancing the positive and mitigatin...