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Public Health
- Promoting HIV/AIDS awareness
- Working with a rural Primary Health Center
- Promoting adolescent health awareness
Women's Groups
- Assisting with rural women in self help group
Small Business Development
- Marketing crafts made by groups of rural women
- Marketing traditional Jaipur Blue Pottery
Environmental Protection
- Working with a regional development organization to determine the impact of a joint forestry management program on the community and forest officials.
- Assessing the benefits of an agency's social forestry products and how they affect the village and the ecosystem.
- Assisting with the development of plant nurseries by village-based women's organizations in Hamirpur.
- Working as part of a disaster mitigation team.
- Surveying villages near Uttarakhand to determine how to keep tigers out of the villages.
Education
- Working at a residential education camp for adolescent girls.
- Working with children involved in community-based school programs for literacy and primary education.
- Working with adolescent girls and the Gadiya-Lahar and Nata communities of eastern Rajasthan
Sustainable Agriculture
- Working with a vegetable cultivation program to evaluate its potential as an income generator for the community.
- Working with an agency to determine food security and the sustainability of hill agriculture in the state of Uttarakhand.
Community Organizing
- Working with tribal communities and their accessibility to health services and education.
Culture and Development
- Documenting tribal marriage practices of Nata and its link to contemporary society in south Rajasthan
- Researching roles of theater in development with a local theater association
- Working with traditional musicians of western Rajasthan
Last modified on November 26, 2008 |