by ashika | Nov 18, 2017 | Education
Sai Padma, the founder of Global AID (Ability in Disability), a nonprofit that IDS has supported in the past, was featured in a recent BBC video in the BBC 100 Women series. Each year, this series honors 100 influential and inspirational women around the world. Watch...
by ashika | Oct 21, 2017 | Education, Income Generation
JSS (Jan Swasthya Sahyog) has been working for more than 15 years in Chhattisgarh in the area of health care. Their community health program targeted 54 villages, impacting a population of 33,000 people. Chhattisgarh is classified as a backward area. The tribal...
by ashika | Aug 26, 2017 | Education
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...
by ashika | Aug 12, 2017 | Education
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...
by ashika | Jul 29, 2017 | Education
Creating Resilient Families and Communities is the title of the next conference in the Conference Series in India. The one-day conference will take place at IIT-Delhi on December 19, 2017. The conference is co-sponsored by India Development Service (IDS), the Indian...
by ashika | Mar 18, 2017 | Education, Health Care
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...