Barefoot College—Enlightening Rural Communities

Barefoot College—Enlightening Rural Communities

Here’s another guest post from Diane Fiksel. Back in March 2017, we published Diane’s post about her visit to PUKAR, an IDS-supported NGO in Mumbai. Regular readers of the IDS blog and Facebook page will probably be familiar with PUKAR and its work. This...
Volunteering with the Himalayan Naari

Volunteering with the Himalayan Naari

This is a guest blog post written by Amanda Novotney, a HEF (Himalayan Education Foundation) volunteer who spent a year after college graduation working in the Himalayas with Naari, a women’s self-help group made up of knitters and weavers. Amanda kindly provided the...