| |
Vigyan Ashram, Pabal
Vigyan Ashram (meaning "student's home for learning science
and technology") is a center of the Indian Institute of Education
(IIE) Pune. IIE is a well known institution in the field of education.
Over the years Vigyan Ashram has developed training programs for
rural youth in several innovative technologies and has successfully
helped to commercialize them. More than 800 diploma holders from
Vigyan Ashram have become entrepreneurs and the job placement rate
is almost 90%. To increase the pace and quality of the education
delivery system, Vigyan Ashram has adopted information technology
successfully.
It is one of the two centers in India, and one of the six across
the globe, to receive technical support and equipment for FAB-LAB
(a hands-on laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) that provides the technology, typically open source, needed
to build just about anything from inexpensive and readily available
materials). For more information about Vigyan Ashram, please visit
http://www.vigyanashram.com/
Students Welfare Association, Pune
Student Welfare Association (SWA) has been working in the education
field for the past several years in Pune. In 2005 SWA will complete
50 years of its exemplary work. The organization provides residential
and boarding facilities to about 500 college students, including
100 girls, coming from rural Maharashtra. Thousands of students
have benefited from SWA's unique facilities and environment. Many
of them have made distinguishing contributions in personal and public
life. For more information about Student Welfare Association please
visit http://www.samiti.org/
Doorstep School, Mumbai
Doorstep School, Mumbai has been working in non-formal education
and community development in the slum communities of Mumbai for
over 15 years. Hundreds of children and families have benefited
from Doorstep programs. Several of them have been able to enroll
into formal schools. To learn more about Doorstep School, please
visit
http://www.doorstepschool.org/dss/home.php
Committee of Resource
Organizations, Mumbai
The Committee of Resource Organizations (CORO) has been working
in community development, adult literacy, and women's empowerment
issues in the slums of Mumbai for the past 15 years. CORO works
in one of the biggest Dalit ("those at the bottom of the caste
system") dominated slum communities in the North-East region
of Mumbai. It has excellent community outreach and has promoted
300 grass roots women's groups with a membership of about 30,000
women. The Government, UNESCO and UNDP have acknowledged the excellent
work done by CORO. To learn more about CORO, please visit:
http://www.unesco.org/courier/2000_03/uk/dossier/txt15.htm;
http://www.megacitiesproject.org/publications/pdf/mcp018f.pdf
To
view and print the PDF file listed above, you will require the Adobe
Reader.
Click the icon below to download and install the software for your
operating system.

|
|