Mother’s in Mandla District Receive Nutrition 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...
Rag Picker Open-Air School In Full Swing
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...
Educating Quarry Worker Children
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...
Parting Words from our 2013 President
As I turn over the mantel of the IDS presidency to Jerry, I would like to reflect upon some of our achievements over the last two years, and opportunities moving ahead. As an organization IDS is currently viable, with an active and engaged group of volunteers. IDS can...
Hostel Up and Running After Political Instability
Our hostel and orphanage in Gajipathinagram, Andhra Pradesh (AP) bounced back after political instability the last few months due to the anticipation of AP splitting into two separate states. During this time, the hostel was shut down for almost a month and disrupted...
Village Women of Madhya Pradesh Form Self-Help Collectives
Self-Help Group (SHG) meetings took place in Mukhaskala, Gadadevri, Barbati, and Banar villages. These villages are close to each other and have two shelters (aanganwadis) in each village. The meetings were attended by the women of the community who were educated on...
Rag Picker Children Attend Cultural Event
Recently, we took our students to a puppet show organized by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts at Ramakrishanan Mission, Vivekanand Auditorium, New Delhi. It was a wonderful puppet show about story of Swami Vivekanand. Students enjoyed the whole session very...
IDS Develops Ground-Level Solutions Through Research and Collaboration
IDS is a leader in developing solutions at the ground level by working on research in collaboration with universities and NGOs. Here are some recent publications: Income Generation The Economist speaks to the value of organizing the informal solid waste sector...
Hub ‘n Spoke Hostel Update
From a hostel of 22 children in 2008, now we are a Hub ‘n Spoke model of 48 hostel children and 121 tribal hamlet children. Our growth has been an eventful journey of continuous learning. We began with a two-member team on the ground, and expanded to a current staff...
An Update on IDS’ and Upaya’s LiftUp Project
Upaya Social Ventures’ Sachi Shenoy and her team attended the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York City in September. India Development Service was one of Upaya's earliest supporters, and remains a critical program partner as Upaya Social Ventures...