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Ashoka organized a Sustainability Network Evening at The India Habitat Centre On Thursday, 12 June, 2008. This event was focused on linking social entrepreneurs with experts in fields that are crucial to an organizations success in making itself independent, sustainable and replicable.
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AAJEVIKA BUREAU RURAL TELECOM COVENANT CENTER RESEARCH CENTER PRATIBA SHINDE PRAAJAK PROJECT DISABILITY R&D NGO NETWORK ASTIVA PROJECT SPANDAN PROJECT SNEHA PROJECT 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
ASHA FOUNDATION 15 NALANDA WAY 1 VILLAGE 1 PC OASIS PROJECT WATER LITERACY MIHIR BHATT SIKHA ROY DREAM A DREAM SREOSHI PROJECT LIFELINE PROJECT 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
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Ashoka Indias Fellowship Program launched a Graduation Ceremony for its 2005 batch of Fellows for the first time as part of its Fine Balance Initiative. The program was particularly useful for Ashoka to understand the diversity of ways in which Fellows manage their organizations/institutions. We would specially like to thank our intern Kavita Saini for pictures and reports and virtual volunteer Maud Bourgeois for the beautiful posters which the Fellows took back with them. Warmly Sohini Bhattacharya Director, South Asia Partnerships
AAJEVIKA BUREAU
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Rajiv Khandelwal
Rajiv has set up the Aajeevika Bureau in the city of Udaipur in southern Rajasthan to address the seasonal workers realities and help transform the nature of migration. The Bureau examines the specific needs of these migrants and equips them with basic skills that allow them to get more dignified city jobs that pay higher wages. It also provides destination counseling and assists with job placement, in addition to offering health, education, and legal aid services. Rajiv's work is introducing an element of security into migrants' lives. His Bureau is altering entrenched social dynamics by creating an identity for migrants and according legitimacy to their livelihoods through recognizing their integral role in the public domain.
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RURAL TELECOM
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
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COVENANT CENTER
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Muthu Velayutham
Muthu Velayutham orchestrates a diverse, integrated suite of development programs in rural India that enable poor communities to build wealth through coordinated business ventures and the stewardship of natural resources. His umbrella organization, the Covenant Center for Development, has helped found farmer producer companies. He organizes federations of rural dry land farmers into producer companies that enable them to compete in large regional markets and to create savings and credit programs needed to sustain their growth. He helps communities fund and run schools, Common Facility Centers (CFCs), and hospitals where none have existed before.
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Muthu Velayutham efforts are being replicated by coalitions of community-based organizations in nine other states. .
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RESEARCH CENTER
RESEARCH CENTER
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
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PRATIBA SHINDE
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Pratibha Shinde
Pratibha Shinde campaigns for a uniform national rehabilitation policy to provide actual practical assistance to displaced people. She wants the government to ensure that these people have the opportunity to prosper in their new homes. Pratibha works in the state of Maharashtra, and her efforts have yielded stunning results. She and her organization, Punarvasan Sangharsh Samiti (The Struggle for Rehabilitation Group) have made Maharashtra the first state in India to announce a comprehensive rehabilitation policy that takes into account all the people, both refugees and tribals, affected by dam projects.
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She is also in the process of drafting a national rehabilitation policy for the government that would monitor six Indian states affected by dam displacement. Her vision goes beyond just people displaced by dams.
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PRAAJAK PROJECT
PRAAJAK PROJECT
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
PRAAJAK PROJECT
Deep Purokayastha
Deep Purokayastha is working for the protection and care of Indias impoverished itinerant railway children by involving the state-run Railway Police Force in a leading, proactive role, while at the same time engaging civil society and the children themselves in this effort. Prajaak engages members of the RPF with an approach that combines sensitization and emotional reorientation with practical inputs. All RPF members partake in regular empathy-based trainings whose goal is to humanize the kids for them, and also bring to life the RPFs potential role with the children.
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The success of Deeps model has implications not only for migrant children but for other mobile populations of the country. By reorienting civil and government sectors to respond to the needs of one migrant population, Deep is enabling them to be better organized and tuned to the needs of other itinerant groups.
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DISABILITY R&D
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Abhishek Ray
Abhishek Ray is using the emerging genre of Universal Design to engage with builders, architects, city planners and citizen organizations to create inclusive and userfriendly environments that serve not only the special needs of the disabled but take into account the diverse needs of the general population. Abhishek says that the question is not one of acceptability but of accessibility. He is shifting the orientation of builders and urban planners from the narrow concept of disabled-friendly architecture to the more inclusive platform of Universal Design which he presents as a cost-effective alternative to serve everyone without exclusion. Abhishek directs his efforts towards prominent government bodies such as courts of justice, national banks, railways and airports as well as citizen organizations catering to the disabled.
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NGO NETWORK
NGO NETWORK
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Hasina Kharbhih
Hasina Kharbhih created the nationally and internationally acknowledged Meghalaya Model, a comprehensive tracking system that successfully brings together the state government, security agencies, legal groups, media, and citizen organizations to combat the cross-border trafficking of children in the porous Northeastern states of India. Hasina developed the Meghalaya Model to combat child trafficking in Northeast India as a single comprehensive strategic plan, to be adopted by all state agencies and citizen organizations in the region and on the nearby crossings to Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Thailand, and Bangladesh. Pilot testing of the Meghalaya model has been verified as effective and it is one of the best practice models included in the South Asian Regional Initiative/Equity study by Management System International in Washington and supported by USAID for replication in South East Asia.
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ASTIVA PROJECT
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
ASTITVA PROJECT
Rehana Adib
Rehana Adib is challenging religious conservatism in rural India with a response system that compels the formal judiciary to take action against informal religion-based authorities. Using women's response groups to address violence against women, Rehana is influencing women, religious leaders, and law-makersand enforcers. Rehana has designed an indigenous response system to fight the new wave of regressive, violent, religious fundamentalism in rural Uttar Pradesh. Rather than attempting to denounce religion, Rehana works strictly within the religious parameters to bring about behavioral change in everyone involved. Since Rehana's groups operate within the existing religious framework in villages, it can easilysurvive and spread in rural communities that are inaccessible to the national and global city-based women's rights movements.
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SPANDAN PROJECT
SPANDAN PROJECT
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
SPANDAN PROJECT
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SNEHA PROJECT
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
SNEHA PROJECT
Armida Fernandez
Dr. Armida Fernandez reorients and reorganizes the limited resources of Indias public health system, crafting efficient programs to secure quality maternal and neonatal health care for low-income families. Her programs focus on releasing the tremendous potential of the resources and infrastructure already available to the public health system, while simultaneously increasing the use of services at the community level. Armida proves that when the facilities and the community resources are used efficiently in a participatory manner, young lives can be saved. Armida is confident that in 4 years, other cities will be open to adopting it, recognizing its potential to solve the critical problem of neonatal mortality in a replicable, practical, cost-efficient way.
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Health . Child & Women Care . Health Care Delivery . Reproductive Health
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ASHA FOUNDATION
ASHA PROJECT
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Glory Alexander
Deep prejudice against people with HIV/AIDS in India leads to patterns of discrimination and maltreatment even in the hospitals they depend on for treatment and care. Dr. Glory Alexander resolves to end medical discrimination against HIV/AIDS patients by educating hospital staff and the patients themselves, using her successes as a lever to push for tolerance in all spheres of Indian life. Glory works with prenatal programs in individual hospitals as a starting point for system-wide change. She works with staff throughout the hospital to improve policies, procedures, and staff attitudes toward HIV/AIDS. She spreads these advances far and wide using existing networks of hospitals in south India. Glorys eventual goal is for people with HIV/AIDS to be treated with the same dignity as people without the disease.
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NALANDA WAY
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Sriram Ayer
By creating a large resource base of new role models or mentors for underprivileged children, Sriram Ayer is introducing the component of empathy in the existing education system and bridging the gap between a childs perceived intelligence quotient and hidden emotional quotient. Sriram Ayers, Nalanda Way program focuses on children from lower-income groups who lack support systems by way of academic and extra curricular guidance and counseling. The mentor is a mix of friend, philosopher, guide, counselor and sounding board whose role is to draw out a childs creative thought and skills and steer him or her towards the vast opportunities and choices that the new global economy has to offer. The ultimate aim is make education relevant for these children and help them make choices and identify new goals.
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1 VILLAGE 1 PC
1 VILLAGE 1PC
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Anil Shaligram
Through his One Village One Computer (1V1C) initiative, Anil Shaligram is making information technology relevant and accessible to rural communities in India by teaching underserved people to use computers as a means of tackling basic social and economic problems and setting up a network of locally run IT cooperatives. 1V1C promotes a democratic use of information technology to help people take ownership of solutions to community challenges. In Maharashtra, where Anils initiative began, villagers have used their new skill sets to take on many development issues like scarcity of water, unemployment, and education, where his train-and-empower strategies are making inroads nationwide. The information generated belongs to the people, and villagers recognize themselves as valuable contributors to their own development as they take ownership of 1V1C activities.
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OASIS PROJECT
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
OASIS PROJECT
Pradeep Ghosh
Pradeep Ghosh has designed a social security system that incorporates the financial and community realities of the Indian poor. His approach offers economically vulnerable communities the chance to take charge of their social security using their existing resources. Pradeeps innovative system capitalizes on the collective bargaining power of communities, and therefore provides financial security for individuals without the financial burdens that traditional social security models require. Through OASIS (Organization for Awareness of Integrated Social Security) Pradeep is implementing his system in Madhya Prades. Once he has demonstrated its efficacy in these challenging circumstances he is confident he will bring the government on board and ultimately scale his model nationwide.
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WATER LITERACY
WATER LITERACY
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Ayyappa Masagi
Ayyappa Masagi helps poor farmers improve their economic condition by teaching them to take charge of their water resources. Through his education programs, and by constructing physical structures for water management, farmers work to reduce the impact of droughts and secure sustainable sources of water for their regions. He trains farmers in his programs to measure and trap rainwater, most of which now passes quickly through their land on its way to the sea. He guides them on how to budget their water needs, equipping them to make informed decisions about the crops they want to grow. Through his efforts farmers become selfsufficient, increasing their income and dramatically reducing their dependence on external sources of water. They also become advocates for strong water management policies throughout India, joining campaigns founded by Masagi to make their voices heard.
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MIHIR BHATT
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Mihir Bhatt
Mihir Bhatt is redefining disaster mitigation by viewing it as a continuous process of social development and community participation rather than as a short-term rescue and relief effort. His organization, the Disaster Mitigation Institute, is addressing disaster risk management from the victims point of view and introducing a long-term social security component in the process. Disaster Mitigation Institute is an actionlearning center that incorporates best practices evolved by different government and nongovernment agencies, donors, and affected communities, and disseminates them. DMI facilitates spreading these insights from one community to another and from one disaster to the next. The communities themselves are treated as partners in disaster mitigation and social security.
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SIKHA PROJECT
SIKHA ROY
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Sikha Roy
In the countryside of West Bengal, where arid conditions and landlessness combine to cause hunger and exacerbate attendant problems, Sikha Roy is organizing women who are daily-wage earners to exercise a legal right over unused land and then to farm it appropriately. With produce of their own, the women can feed their families, escape the manifold abuses they are exposed to as laborers, and stay close to their children and loved ones, thereby bringing new life to their villages. Sikha reminds us, women take pleasure and pride in producing and preparing food for their families; it is this simple but intrinsically human quality that makes her idea work.
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DREAM A DREAM
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Vishal Talreja
Formerly an investment banker and venture capitalist, Vishal Talreja has built a network of volunteers that offer vulnerable children opportunities to increase their chances for normal childhood development. Vishal is building a volunteer-run initiative that provides vulnerable childrenchildren from disadvantaged backgrounds, children who are gravely ill from cancer or who are HIV-positive, children who are orphans and street kidswith opportunities to have fun and learn concrete skills that allow them the possibility of eventually becoming integrated into mainstream society. Vishals initiative has begun to attract considerable attention from the Indian and the international press. Creating a dedicated citizen and corporate base to support societys most vulnerable members, Vishal is building an important model for communities throughout India and beyond.
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SREOSHI PROJECT
SREOSHI PROJECT
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
SREOSHI PROJECT
Ashok Bharti
A firm believer in the participatory approach to service management systems, Ashok Bharti is founding community-based cooperatives as an alternative distribution mechanism for electricity to reach Indias slum dwellers. Beginning with an electricity cooperative in Delhis slums, Ashok is reinventing the relationship between poor consumers and service providers and paving the way for an inclusive ownership structure of all civic amenities. At the same time, Ashok is proving to the government and the private sector that his cooperative model is good business. Ashok is in the process of partnering with the Tata Power Companys distribution arm, North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL), which supplies power to one-third of Delhi City, for his pilot program, and plans to continue this collaboration in spreading his model throughout India.
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LIFELINE PROJECT
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Subroto Das
Beginning with highway rescue, Dr. Subroto Das is creating for the first time in the history of South Asia, emergency medical systems that integrate the work of hospitals, ambulances, police, citizens, and the state. The Highway Rescue Project, under the banner of the Lifeline Foundation, has saved as many as 1,258 accident victims with life threatening injuries and 1,070 with minor or moderate injuries within 39 months of the projects launch in 2002. Efforts are under way to spread to the more than 14,800 kilometer of highways linking the four major metropolitan cities of India. Ultimately, he plans for his systems of emergency care to reach the length and breadth of the country.
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CHANGE MANAGEMENT
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
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WOMAN NETWORK
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Kousalya Periasamy
Kousalya Periasamy is a pioneer: the first woman in India to declare she is HIV-positive. She has brought attention to the fact that the average Indian housewife is at risk of infection. Through the Positive Women Network, she is creating a network of support systems for women living with HIV and Aids in India. The Positive Women Network works on several fronts. It lobbies to improve how information on HIV and Aids is delivered to women. It also works to improve access to services by providing counseling, treatment, general health services, and drug rehabilitation. In 1998, the Network started up with just four founding members, mostly from Tamil Nadu. In 2002, it organized the first National Consultation on women living with HIV and Aids, transforming it into a national network.
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MULBERRY PROJECT
MULBERRY PROJECT
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
MULBERRY PROJECT
Rakhee Choudhury
Rakhee Choudhury is teaching Assamese women the skills they need to revitalize weavinga vital part of their cultural heritageand to convert traditional skills into forward-looking, income-earning activities. She organizes the women into cooperatives that connect them directly to the market, allowing them to earn a living by advancing an industry that has great cultural significance for them. Rakhee trains the women through intensive, hands-on workshops that cover topics relating not only to technicalities of weaving but also to marketing and business management. She encourages women to think of themselves in a new lightas entrepreneurs and professionalsdelivering a quality product to the market and sustaining themselves and their families in the process.
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WORLD COMICS
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Sharad Sharma
Sharad Sharma is introducing the use of comics across India as a low-cost medium through which unheard millions can raise their voices on serious issues of daily concern that are ordinarily neglected by the conventional media. With World Comics India, the organization he started, Sharad has pioneered a cheap and easy medium for poor people to communicate meaningfully on issues that are neglected by the conventional media. A soft medium like comics makes possible talk on hard subjectswitchhunting, alcoholism, ritual pollution. Wellportrayed issues catch the attention of passers-by, young and old, poor and rich, literate and illiterate. As Sharad and his colleagues are showing, this attention builds concern and action.
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MUSHROOM PROJECT
MUSHROOM PROJECT
ASHOKA
India
2008 Ashoka Fellows Graduation
Pranjal Baruah
Pranjal Baruah is organizing farmers in Assam around mushroom cultivation. He puts farmers in control of their produce through his land-to-lab strategies and training and support for "mushroom entrepreneurs." In addition to creating new livelihood opportunities for thousands of unemployed youth and landless families in Assam, Pranjal is developing a new market for mushroom consumption. By federating farmers, he is creating systems that aim to put an end to farmer exploitation in the northeast region. His win-win strategies place control directly into the hands of the farmers and show a way by which growers can gain maximum benefit through organizing.
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