by ashika | Jul 2, 2016 | Education, Empowerment, Income Generation
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...
by ashika | Jun 17, 2016 | Education, Health Care
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...
by ashika | Apr 29, 2016 | Education, Empowerment, Health Care, News
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...
by ashika | Apr 2, 2016 | Education
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...
by ashika | Feb 13, 2016 | Education, Empowerment, Environment, Event
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.
by ashika | Jan 30, 2016 | Education, Environment, Event, News
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...
