Below you will find photos including people that we work with, Placement and Project locations as well as photos of Past Volunteers during their Placements in India.
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Folk Art Workshop, November 2002, at Sewa Mandir, school for Deaf, Speech impaired and Blind children, Indore, Madhya Pradesh |
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Photos from the DEEDS Ponnai project... |
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| A view of Ponnai village centre from the DEEDS office balcony |
Everyone wanted to be photographed |
The calm before the storm. Preparing to deliver our first English lesson to the DEEDS Ponnai staff at the J.D.B training centre... |
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| Dr Thiagarajan (aka Tiger) Jay and the artist (name?) at the JDB centre. Everyone is especially attentive when the boss visits! Tiger's mum and dad are pictured above his head. |
Mick and Sylvia enjoy the view of the plane around the training centre from the top of a nearby ridge. I think Sylvia was tempted to push Mick off... |
Geoff with the ever present Jay Singh at the JDB centre just before leaving. Tiger waits in the car whilst the Centre's turkey eyes the scene from a distance. |
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| Volunteers pictured witht the DEEDS_PONNAI staff on their last night at the JDB Training Centre. What a great bunch! Spot the DiA initiated wall painting in the background. |
A women's Sangham group gathers amidst mural created with the help of DiA volunteers |
Women and child photographed on the road between Ponnai and the training centre. |
Volunteering in Indore... |
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A volunteer vists villages in the Jhabua and Dhar districts of Madhya Pradesh to observe the impact of development programmes in the area
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Some of the Staff and Trainees at the Barli Development Institute for Rural Women which teaches girls to become community volunteers in their own villages
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The annual North India festival of Navitri is celebrated in style with 800 dancers performing the 'garba' in the centre of Indore. |
Some of our more energetic sponsored events... |
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| Friends and volunteers at the end of the 2 day sponsored walk in the Peak District. Was it really only 26 miles? |
That actually was a long way...106 miles, off-road, by bike, in two days. It did take a week to recover though. |
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Selection of photos from some of our first volunteers... |
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| Young girls in the fields near Mendha |
The wheat field in front of Chokidai's house |
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Photos from the remote Jhabua District... |
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| Health out-reach nurses visiting homes - Village Development Programme (VDP) |
A Bhil woman with
her grandchild |
Chokidai in front of his home with Past Volunteer |
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| Children in Sardi - where the new LAMP children's hostel will be opened in July 1999. |
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Members of LAMP in Sardi
(Stephan Abby and Padri Salatiel) |
Photos from Jobat, the small town where LAMP was based... |
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| In the market, buying bows and arrows - used by the Bhils |
Stone Workers caste - camped along side the main road in Jobat. |
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