Jerry has been a Board member of IDS for nearly the last decade and also served as a past president of IDS for fourteen months. He has been the project coordinator for Adarsh Mahila Griha Udyug in Maharashtra working with self-help groups for Stop Dowry Marriages and grow Crops Organically. In addition he visited the Rag Pickers project in Delhi, and the (high) school project near Chennai. He has spoken to a women’s self-help convention in Hyderabad and a Stop Dowry Marriages conference in Latur.