Primary education and health care: 2016 report
IDS has received an end-of-year report from the Indian Pollution Control Association (IPCA) about the 2016 achievements of its health care and primary education programs for rag picker children. The education centers have been in operation since 2013 in Delhi NCR, and...
Year-end update from Himalayan Naari
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...
Conference Series in India: February 2017
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...
Back to school with Medha
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 Facebook page,...
Have you liked IDS on Facebook yet?
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 Facebook but not...
News from HEF and the artisans of Himalayan Naari
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 Uttarakhand....
Monthly health camps added to IPCA education centers
IDS’s intervention with Indian Pollution Control Association (IPCA) is growing! We are now creating a preventive health care initiative within the education centers. Here is a recent report from our IPCA contact: IPCA currently operates five education centers at the...
IDS co-founder S. R. Hiremath to visit Chicago
Though S. R. Hiremath is perhaps best known worldwide as a crusader against the illegal mining mafia in Karnataka state, we know him as one of the people who founded India Development Service a little more than 40 years ago. He'll be visiting the Chicago area in June...
IDS partners with GRAVIS to help miners in Rajasthan
Occupational lung diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in India. These diseases are caused by inhalation of dust particles or chemicals. One such lung disease is silicosis, caused by inhalation of silica dust during mining. While exact statistics are...
Scenes from Student Life in Indirapuram
Municipal corporations are responsible for handling the daily waste generated in India's cities. However, according to the latest newsletter from the Indian Pollution Control Association (IPCA), these corporations accomplish only about 50% of the job. Taking care of...