Archive for May, 2006

Mumbai Bound: Summer 2006

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

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(Jasneet and Erin prepare to teach a health workshop during December of 2005)

Set some alphonso mangoes aside, Mumbai–we are on our way! Adam Reich, Anu Sridharan, and Erin Inglish will spend two and a half months in Mumbai working with the Behram community. Arvind Sadasivan and Jasneet Kholi, student members of SIFE at Somaiya, will join forces with the Berkeley team upon their arrival on June 1st. Scott ReMine from UC Davis will arrive mid-June to continue a rigorous background investigation on diarrheal illness in Behram. Together this team will spend the summer training hygiene educators and investigating appropriate methods for disseminating the Haat MeN Sehat Pani ka Filter. (more…)

Mumbai Project featured in SF Chronicle!

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

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“Engineering students make it easy, low-tech” (more…)