by ashika | Jan 14, 2014 | Education
As incoming president, I am honored to help guide this already great organization as it celebrates its 40th anniversary. Highlighted by an improved, interactive website and a scheme for assessing project outcomes in a more tangible way, 2013 was a very good year for...
by ashika | Jan 14, 2014 | Education
Approximately five kilometers inland from Gopalpur on the Odisha coastline lies a village where Cyclone Phailin, the second strongest cyclone in India’s history, made landfall. At the local level, government, media, NGOs, and community relief efforts were apparent and...
by ashika | Jan 14, 2014 | Education
Mothers at the Anganwadi in Mukhaskala village are being trained to monitor the nutritional status of their children using a growth monitoring chart. The women are taught to measure the height and weight of their children and to refer to the chart to determine if...
by ashika | Jan 7, 2014 | Education
Our second school for rag pickers’ children is up and running after a fire last fall burned down the school and devastated the rag picker community. Fortunately, there were no fatalities. The objective of the rag picker school is to provide high quality...
by ashika | Jan 7, 2014 | Education
Quarry work is labor-intensive and physically dangerous work. Workers are migrants who come from Bihar, Orissa, and Jharkhand, and tend to be culturally and linguistically isolated from their mainstream communities. Children of quarry workers face a bleak future...
