IPCA Initiative: Even We Use Waste Bins
IPCA (Indian Pollution Control Association) operates five schools in the Rag Pickers’ Children’s Education Programme. All the schools are situated in the same location (a godown, or warehouse) where the rag pickers’ job is to segregate waste. In the godown, waste is...
More Perspectives material added to the IDS website!
Couldn’t be there in person? Find links to the day’s schedule (with speaker bios), photos, and nearly three hours of video from the event here! Thanks to ART WORKS Projects for video and to Michael Bracey and Tim Somers for photography.
Perspectives from India and Chicago: Highlights
IDS was proud to co-sponsor a one-of-a-kind event on January 23, 2016: Perspectives from India and Chicago, a symposium of multi-media arts, academic experts, and community conversations around human rights in India and in Chicago. IDS was privileged to partner with...
Conference Series in India 2016: Post-conference report
On January 15, 2016 we had a productive conference entitled Waste Management Innovations: Research, Learning and Propagation. This event was organized and sponsored by TERI University, the India Pollution Control Association (IPCA), India Development Service (IDS),...
Perspectives from India and Chicago: a free symposium
Perspectives is a half-day symposium that is co-sponsored by ART WORKS Projects, India Development Service, and WBEZ’s Worldview. It's taking place on Saturday, January 23 in Chicago, and admission is free! Click here to read more about the event and to register. You...
Conference Series in India–January 2016
As many of you are aware, sanitation and pollution problems in India are quite severe. IDS has a number of health care projects on the ground, but we are seeing issues related to waste management confounding our interventions. We need to better understand these issues...
More annual reports added to IDS website
This week, links to IDS annual reports from 1985 through 2010 were added to the website. To find a particular annual report, start at the "About" menu at the top of the screen. Slide down to the "Annual Reports" option, and then slide to the right and click to choose...
IDS website update in progress
Visitors to the IDS website may have noticed some changes recently. The “Projects” area has been updated—all the project stories from the 2014 annual report have now been added. In the “About” menu, you can now access PDF files of our most recent annual reports. The...
Thirty-nine percent of Indian children are stunted from poor nutrition—what can be done?
Recently, the New York Times ran an article that was quite telling about the health and sanitation conditions in India and how they are affecting the development of children. One point is quite striking; according to the article, “. . . India is the epicenter of...
Success story: Himalayan Inter-College, Uttarakhand
This week, an IDS board member received a letter of appreciation from Jayant Hardikar, founder of the Himalayan Education Foundation (HEF), announcing that the Himalayan Inter-College has won top honors in the state of Uttarakhand, placing first of 1,200 schools. In...