by ashika | May 12, 2018 | Education, Health Care
Ten years ago, seed funding from India Development Service (IDS) helped launch Save a Mother (SAM), an NGO that was the brainchild of Dr. Shiban Ganju. Since 2008, SAM has been driven by a mission to develop healthcare solutions for the poor in India. In this...
by ashika | Mar 17, 2018 | Education, Health Care
A few years ago, IDS funding helped establish the Ragpicker Primary Education and Health Program. Although IDS is not currently giving financial support to this project, the Indian Pollution Control Association (IPCA) has kindly sent us a report covering the last six...
by ashika | Apr 14, 2017 | Environment, Health Care
Speaker videos from the 2017 Conference in India (International Conference on Environmental Exposure and Preventive Healthcare) are now available. Click on the speaker names below to open each video and view it in your browser. Thanks to Ashish Jain of IPCA for...
by ashika | Mar 31, 2017 | Health Care, Nutrition
As of the end of 2016, the Nutrition and Education Project for children up to 5 years old was being implemented in 11 villages of the Pushprajgarh Block (Anuppur District) in Madhya Pradesh. The project is led by WOTR (Watershed Organisation Trust), an NGO...
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...
by ashika | Feb 24, 2017 | Education, Environment, Event, Health Care
The summary of the 2017 Conference in India, “Environmental Exposure and Preventive Health Care,” is now available. The conference, the third in the series, was held earlier this month on the campus of India Institute of Technology, Delhi. Thanks to IDS...