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Indians for Collective Action (ICA)
[ http://www.icaonline.org ]
ICA is a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit group, working on behalf of India 's poor. Our vision is a secure life for every Indian, in a sustainable environment and a just society. Our mission is to enable the poor to seek and gain access to healthcare, education, local natural resources, and sustainable, community-based income earning opportunities. Our method is to provide seed funding, ongoing financial resources, and moral and technical support to innovative, community-based development initiatives. Hence our motto: Development through innovation.
Since our inception in 1968, ICA has supported development projects in 16 states. We work in partnership with dedicated social workers and organizations in India and in the US. It is ICA's practice only to work with those NGOs whose guiding principles are secular, non-partisan and democratic.
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India
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Environmental Sanitation Institute (ESI)
[ http://www.esi.org.in ]
In a country where over 77% of rural families in India do not have access to toilets (Census 2001), the Environmental Sanitation Institute (ESI) works as a training facility for environmental and sanitation awareness. It guides rural areas in the best methods to maintain sanitary conditions while also focusing on drainage facilities that cater to the cultures of the various communities. ESI inspired the idea of Manav Sadhna and continues to influence its operations
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Manav Sadhna
[ http://wwww.manavsadhna.org ]
Manav Sadhna, as an NGO based at the Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, is comprised of a young group of dedicated individuals working for the upliftment of poor and needy children. Inspired by Gandhian philosophy, Manav Sadhna works in the areas of education, nutrition, alternatives to child labor and medical aid to women and children living in the slums. However, through all of those lives that it touches, Manav Sadhna has managed to begin a movement to adapt Gandhian ideals to the current and complex issues facing not only India, but the world. Manav Sadhna wishes to plant the seeds of hope and inspiration among all people, especially those children who have been neglected by society.
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SIDH
[ http://www.sidhsri.com ]
The Society for Integrated Development of Himalayas (SIDH) is committed to providing meaningful, relevant, and holistic education to local children and youth. SIDH’s primary mission is to use education as a tool for social change and to encourage a more meaningful exploration and dialogue, not only in the social and political spheres but also within individual mindsets. Currently SIDH operates 11 schools from the pre-primary level through high school and serves nearly 500 children in 40 villages of the Aglar Valley in Jaunpur. SIDH has expanded to include youth courses, teacher training, educational research, advocacy, and publication units, thus reaching out to all those concerned with quality in education.
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