Agenda India

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Agenda India

• DVD on Indian train platform schools
• Continue discussion on India and children's
  issues infant mortality rate, malnutrition,
  girls not as valued as boys
• Short presentation on Free the Children
• Supporting local artisans micro-businesses
• Small group discussion What is your passion?

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India Statistics

• The slow improvement in the health status of our
  people is of great concern. We have paid
  inadequate attention to public health.
• -Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India,
  April, 2005
• Even with its growth in economic development,
  Indias child mortality rates are not going down.

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India Statistics

• 1 in every 11 Indian children die before age 5
  due to the lack of simple, low-cost,
  low-technology interventions
• Malnutrition effects half Indias children
• Girls ages 1-5 are 50 more likely to die than
  boys
• Life expectancy Someone born in rural India can
  expect to live 14 fewer years than someone born
  in Japan

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India Statistics
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Lets Look at the Problem
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Resources What Others are Doing

• International Village Clinic (www.vibha.org)
• Healthcare in Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh.
  IVCs goal is to reduce disease and child
  mortality rates through nutrition services,
  immunization/vaccination programs, health
  education, and a drinking water purification
  program
• Rising Star Outreach (www.risingstaroutreach.org)
• Education and healthcare for 300 children ages
  3-5 from families living with leprosy.
• Dazzling Stone Home for Children
  (www.globalvolunteers.org)
• Sponsor an orphaned or abandoned child
• Orphanage outside Chennai serves 120 children

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Resources-What Others are Doing

• Association for Indias Development
  (www.aidboston.org)
• university group focused on the poor and
  oppressed in villages and cities of India
• aims at inspiring confidence and developing
  capabilities in people
• Rural Volunteer Center (www.naandi.org)
• Install hand pumps to provide safe drinking water
  
• Center for Womens Devt and Research
  (globalgiving.com)
• Educating and organizing women living in the
  slums of Chennai
• Income generation programs for women
• Adolescent girls programs
• Rainwater harvesting program

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Volunteerism

• Think about what you have do you have any
  excess available to give? Excess can be anything,
  like time, energy, food, clothing, money. Think
  of ways you might carve a little extra out?
  Starbucks! Cigarettes! TV! What do you think you
  need that perhaps isnt so important?
• What gives you joy?
• What need or issue have you noticed that is
  important to you? You can only do it if you are
  truly moved to.

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Resources-Micro businesses

• Artisans around the world have trouble reaching
  their natural markets due to poverty, poor
  information, and the disadvantage of being
  small-lot producers in an age of high technology
  and mass distribution. They could feed their
  families, vaccinate their babies, and send their
  children to school if we in the developed world
  were to purchase the high-quality goods they know
  how to make.
• Overstock.com created Worldstock an online
  store emphasizing sustainability, fairness, and
  transparency while empowering artisans to achieve
  their dreams for themselves and their families.
• Some of the cooperatives include the disabled,
  many of whom had lost limbs to landmines, or
  women with no job opportunities.
• Sustainability the businesses supported are
  those that sustain rather than use up people,
  cultures, and natural resources.

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Resources-Micro businesses

• Novica.com (all online, artist fulfillment)
• Worldwatch Institute
• One World Products, Inc.
• Sadhna
• Aid to Trade
• One World Products
• Craftsbridge
• CHF Intl
• Aid to Artisans (products have been in Pottery
  Barn, Pier 1, Sundance, Smith Hawken, Saks,
  Neimen Marcus, ABC)
• Grantors AmEx, Rockefeller FD, USAID, Kellogg
  FD, Ford FD, Aveda
• Development grants Business in Devt Challenge
  the Netherlands
• World Resources Institutes New Ventures
  links entrepreneurs with investors-starting in
  India!!