Barefoot College—Enlightening Rural Communities

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...
Volunteering with the Himalayan Naari

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 project update: GRAVIS medical camps

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...