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How Big Is A 1000?
Association for India's Development (AID) and Asha for Education (Boston)
invite you to meet
BALAJI SAMPATH & KALPANA KARUNAKARAN
Talk and Discussion
HOW BIG IS A 1000?
Expanding micro-level efforts to a 1000-village scale
... and going beyond
Balaji Sampath is an AID JeevanSaathi (full time volunteer), who returned to India in 1997 after a Ph.D. from Univ of MD and a crucial role in building AID chapters across the US. He has been working full-time with AID-India and Tamil Nadu Science Forum (TNSF). A captivating speaker, Balaji is on a short visit to US to share his experiences. Kalpana has worked with TNSF for several years, playing a key role in the women's savings movement MALAR, with 7000 members in Kanyakumari district.
Spreading village-level efforts to a 1000 villages is beyond the scope of most NGO efforts. The challenge is to organize the expansion while maintaining the quality at village level. Arogya Iyyakkam has inspired 1000 people like Uma to work on children's and women's health in Tamil Nadu. Now, the health program is spreading to 800 villages in Bihar through Hundred Blocks Plan.
Balaji and Kalpana will share many stories and experiences that form part of these remarkable initiatives. Each village's story of action and commitment is behind the statistics and achievements.
And then: While 1000 villages is big, how does it compare with the 750,000 in India? Can we go beyond this?
Date: 05/09/2004
Location: MIT 4-231
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Email: ansiv@mit.edu
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