by ashika | Dec 30, 2016 | Education
Back in July, readers of this blog were introduced to Himalayan Naari, a group of about 100 fiber artisans working in Munsiyari and Chaukori, remote mountain villages in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. An affiliate of Himalayan Education Foundation (HEF), Himalayan...
by ashika | Nov 4, 2016 | Environment, Event, Health Care
International Conference on Environmental Exposure and Preventive Health Care India Institute of Technology, Delhi February 3, 2017 Published reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that 8.9 million people die each year of diseases caused by...
by ashika | Sep 17, 2016 | Education
IDS recently received the September 2016 edition of Medha’s online newsletter; click here to view it. More about Medha Founded in 2011, Medha is an NGO based in Uttar Pradesh that has received IDS support for several years. According to Medha’s...
by ashika | Jul 23, 2016 | News
About six months ago, we began to update the IDS Facebook page. Blog posts published on the IDS website now go simultaneously to the website and to the Facebook page. Occasionally, there is a post that is a “Facebook exclusive” — one that appears on...
by ashika | Jul 2, 2016 | Education, Empowerment, Income Generation
IDS recently received a quarterly report from the Himalayan Education Foundation (HEF) about the progress of the Himalayan Naari project. A HEF affiliate, Himalayan Naari is a women’s self-help group based in the villages of Chaukori and Munsiyari in...
