Mahesh-da, North East Network has been doing good work. AID is taking up its weaving project - to market and spread the word internationally. Recently (August), their NEN volunteer did a presentation here. Here is the movie uploaded on the AID website. Lets see how it goes.
http://www.aidindia.org/NEN/ Cheers, Partha --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tulika Narayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey all, This CSH we have a talk and I am presenting the project from Assam on handlooms. Mitra is familiar with this project as she came for our session when Ruby Gogoi from NEN had come over. HOpe to see you there. The meeting will start at 1130am and we will do this project and the talk in it (see below for location). The order is still nto determined..youc an call me at 202 297 0981 if you want to find out anything. Best, Tulika Date: Saturday OCtober 25th, Venue: College Park CSH, 1130am Room 1209 Physics Bldg, UMCP. This CSH, we will have a talk by Sejal Dand from ANANDI, Gujarat. AID Bay Area has supported a project with them before. Nigamanth Sridhar from Columbus recently visited this project also. We are looking to expand our work with them and they have also submitted a proposal to us. Before the talk, I will present a brief outline of our project and the visit feedback from Nigamanth. To learn more about the project that Bay Area did please visit: http://www.aidsfbay.org/projects/Anandi_Drought/anandi_drought.html http://aidsfbay.org/projects/Anandi_Communal_Harmony/ ANANDI's focus is in capacility building in women - they work with/organize mahila sangathans etc. Their work in Boru (for rebuilding homes) was a model for Citizens Initiative involvement even at a later time to build homes for families which could not return. Sejal is based in Ahmedabad and she is a TISS graduate. The ANANDI core team includes Jahnvi Andharia and Neeta Hardikar along with Sejal and there is local staff at their field offices in Panchmahal- Dahod (Devgargh Baria), Rajkot and Bhavnagar. She's married and has a young daughter. Her husband is a prof in IIM-Ahmedabad and is currently on sabbatical from there at Appalachian State Univ. in Boone, NC. She and her daughter have accompanied him. They been here for about 1 academic year and they'll be around for this academic year too. Tulika A. NarayanHome Phone: 301 592 1440Office Phone: 301 913 0553 Volunteer for www.aidindia.org --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search _______________________________________________ Md mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://aidindia.org/mailman/listinfo/md Tulika A. NarayanHome Phone: 301 592 1440Office Phone: 301 913 0553 Volunteer for www.aidindia.org --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search --- End forwarded message --- _______________________________________________ Assam mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam To unsubscribe or change options: http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/options/assam
