Archive for June, 2007
06.24.07 – 06.30.07
The Past Week: 06.24.07 � 06.30.07
Current project
Post SHG job description
No; Kanchan, the woman who translates for us was busy all week. I could have looked for someone else who could translate but I knew it would be difficult and time consuming and therefore didn’t bother. She’ll be free come Tuesday [...]
Read More..>>Looking for top needs for entry-level computer jobs
As part of my project to provide vocational computer training based on industry needs, I started searching for top entry-level computer-based job needs this week. Right now, Dushyant Maheshwary, a 2nd yr computer engineering student from Mumbai, is helping me search for these jobs on employment sites (such as naukri.com etc). So far, his [...]
Read More..>>PR Spiel
With the GDL team set to expand in the coming months, the current team members have started conducting Public Relations (PR) activities, so that the townspeople get a clear idea of who we are, and what we’ve done.
So far, we’ve been conducting info sessions with families and/or groups of people, where each of the team [...]
06.18.07 – 06.23.07
The Past Week: 06.18.07 � 06.23.07
Current project:
Finish green paper
Almost finished; I put it off for the week until last night but it will be done tonight! Now it’s taking me a long period of time to complete because I’m being overly detail-oriented and thinking of new ways to make it more [...]
Read More..>>Anemia project wrap-up
I was aiming to accomplish three main goals this week: 1) to retest all the women in my group to see how much higher their Hemoglobin counts are after taking iron pills for two months; 2) to put an ad in the local paper outlining the successes of this group in Jatavas; and 3) to [...]
Read More..>>A not so productive week…with a few breakthroughs!
This week was frustrating. I had all these visions of finalizing some details and getting things moving, especially with the assessment. But things seemed stalled from the organizations’ side as well as mine. In regards to the organization, people I’ve been needing to talk to have been in meetings or not feeling well. In regards [...]
Read More..>>Free IT learning
I recenly came across this website:
http://alison.com
It is a website that provides free online computer education for everyone. Has anyone heard of it before? Tried it? Would they recommend it to other students? Would it be worth translating into Hindi?.
Getting Focus
So I’ve defined my project – an English course for teachers – except the instructor will only use and highlight the best teaching practices. The teachers will see what a difference these teaching methods take and will want to go back to the classroom right away and try them out for themselves. Well, it may [...]
Read More..>>Goals for week beginning June 11th
In an effort to truly understand what the health needs in Bagar are, and where the existing health system falls short of the community’s needs, I am conducting a survey in roughly 300 households from all of Bagar’s 15 wards. This week’s goal was to finalize both the survey and the logistics behind [...]
Read More..>>06.10.07 � 06.16.07
Current project
Mitigate tensions
Did this; I knew this wouldn’t be solved by holding a meeting and talking things out so I took Dharampal (a well-respected young adult in Ashok Nagar) to assist me with the art of negotiation. He and I first went to talk to Jamna Ji. We then [...]
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