Read the latest  update from India!   By University of Guelph researcher Tanya Lee.....

I am a Canadian graduate student in India for two months to learn about the Made by Survivors jewelry program. My research focuses on issues such as agency, group belonging, and economic sustainability. Thus far the jewelry program partners with two very different organizations in two very different environments: one in the middle of urban Kolkata; and one in a rural area outside of Mumbai. I have just returned from spending 2 weeks at the latter. 

Team India updates from the field in Kolkata. 

Monday October 24th 2011

Today we start hosting a researcher named Tanya that is here to evaluate the Jewelry Training program and other Income Generation Projects that we help manage to help determine how effective they are and, potentially, how we can make them better.  Tanya will be conducting a one on one interview with the local staff and the girls in the program to get an idea of how the program impacts them and if/how it has changed them.

Last week I had a good time with my extended family in Boisar shelter home. I had gone to the Mumbai shelter home to follow up on the jewelry program which we are conducting since last year, October. It was great to see the level of improvement the girls have gone through. One particular girl, Sonam was apprehensive about the program because she lacked confidence when I met her for the first time. She would barely speak to us and was indifferent. She dreaded that she would not be able to do anything in her life as she lost the meaning of her life after what she had suffered.

Check out the latest blog from Asia program Manager, Chandreyi Basu (Doel), as she talks about arriving back at Rescue Foundation after a 6 month absence. 

10th June, 2011 at 3:30am....