NHC: NRI Home Coming

A new networking initiative called IDCA (India Development Coalition of America) has lately come up, to connect organizations based in the USA working for social development in India. Definitely something to keep an eye open to. They recently organized a conference, and have a great set of people working on fantastic projects. It includes:

- Vikram Akula, who gave a great push to the microfinance movement in India.

- An interesting project on a mobile science laboratory to awaken the interests of students in villages who would normally never get to see a science laboratory in their schools.

- Virendra Singh, ex-chief of DuPont South Asia, who organized poor girls around his home-village in UP, and transformed their lives.

- Exciting ways to empower people in rural India by working hand-in-hand with each family and guiding them to uplift themselves.