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Sep
21Voices from The Field: Student Perspective on IDEX Partner GRAVIS in Rajasthan, India
2011
Posted by IDEX
The following was written by Adithya Balasubramanian, a Rice University sophomore student and a recent intern at GRAVIS.
Photo by: Robert Wallace, MHA
This summer I conducted an independent study with Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti (GRAVIS), a long-standing IDEX partner, on the social impact of tuberculosis and malnutrition. As part of my study, I visited GRAVIS field sites to gain firsthand experience with their various development projects. During my field visits, I was immediately struck by the disparity of the societal standing of women in rural and urban areas. I sought to analyze this divide and understand how GRAVIS is mitigating gender disparity in the region. Read the rest of this entry »
IDEX has recently selected 4 new partners in South Africa:
We will be sharing news from these partners in the coming weeks and months.
For those of you who are in South Africa, don’t miss the next episode in the Masupatsela Series, which features the work of Angus Gillis.
“Game reserves in South Africa have an unpleasant legacy of people being thrown off land in order to turn the area into a playground for the rich. Kwandwe Private Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape near Grahamstown has decided to do things differently. The Reserve was formed by combining three agricultural farms into 20,000 hectares of land and restocking this land with wildlife. The farm workers living on the land form part of the Reserve’s community and are trained through various program to become staff members or to develop skills that they can use to advance their families and communities.”
Read more here and watch the trailer below.
