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 month, while...
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...
IDS announces upcoming Conference in India (December 2017)
Creating Resilient Families and Communities is the title of the next conference in the Conference Series in India. The one-day conference will take place at IIT-Delhi on December 19, 2017. The conference is co-sponsored by India Development Service (IDS), the Indian...
Conference videos now available
Speaker videos from the 2017 Conference in India (International Conference on Environmental Exposure and Preventive Healthcare) are now available. Click on the speaker names below to open each video and view it in your browser. Thanks to Ashish Jain of IPCA for...
IDS project update: Nutrition and Education Project, Madhya Pradesh
As of the end of 2016, the Nutrition and Education Project for children up to 5 years old was being implemented in 11 villages of the Pushprajgarh Block (Anuppur District) in Madhya Pradesh. The project is led by WOTR (Watershed Organisation Trust), an NGO...
IDS project update: GRAVIS medical camps
Since 1994, GRAVIS, an NGO based in Rajasthan, has been actively working in rural India to improve the health and working conditions of stone miners of Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. Occupational lung diseases like silicosis and tuberculosis are common and often result in...
PUKAR: How Participatory Research Inspires Social Change
This is a guest post from Diane Fiksel, Principal and Co-Founder, Eco-Nomics LLC and former Board Member of The Women's Fund of Central Ohio. Diane attended the IDS Luncheon last month and offered to share the story of her visit to PUKAR in Mumbai. Thanks, Diane, for...
Summary of 2017 Conference in India now available
The summary of the 2017 Conference in India, "Environmental Exposure and Preventive Health Care," is now available. The conference, the third in the series, was held earlier this month on the campus of India Institute of Technology, Delhi. Thanks to IDS board member...
IDS board votes on 2017 project funding
On February 11, 2017 the IDS board met to discuss and vote on new projects for 2017. Following the meeting, board members presented the projects to IDS donors and supporters at a luncheon. For details, view the PowerPoint presentation here. New projects that...
Final program for 2017 Conference in India posted
The final program for "Environmental Exposure and Preventive Health Care," the 3rd International Conference in India, is now available here. The conference takes place on February 3, 2017 on the campus of India Institute of Technology, Delhi, and there is no admission...