Progress

Regardless of whether you are following the progress of Indicorps as a potential applicant, partner, supporter, or observer, we encourage you to learn about the Indicorps philosophy and methodology.

Indicorps believes in transparency, information sharing, and positive collaboration with like-minded organizations aiming to serve humanity. In pursuit of this ideal, we aim to make most of our documentation, including revisions over the years, available to the public.

One of the best ways to keep up with our work is to follow our progress with our projects in the field. Choose any of the links below to see detailed descriptions from the application process for past Indicorps projects.

The 2007-2008 Projects are split into two classes, one starting on January 26th, the other on August 15th. Indicorps projects in these cycles include developing a food processing unit for lime farmers in rural Maharashtra, nutrition for tribal women in Tamil Nadu, an effort to breathe new life into the Gandhi Ashram on the banks of the Sabarmati in Ahmedabad, an attempt to build an eco-friendly energy solution enterprise for the rural poor, and more.

Click here for more details on the January 2007-2008 Indicorps Fellowship Projects. (Not Current)

Click here for more details on the August 2007-2008 Indicorps Fellowship Projects. (Not Current)

The 2006-2007 Indicorps projects included two Grassroots Development Laboratories in partnership with two private foundations, a project to help re-engineer the camel cart, a project to enable Internet users to loan money as part of a micro-finance initiative, an initiative to strengthen a mass campaign for governance reform, an attempt to replicate the Indicorps model for Indians within India, several women's health initiatives, and more.

Click here for more details on the 2006-2007 Indicorps Fellowship Projects. (Not Current)

The 2005-2006 Indicorps projects included a variety of projects with partner organizations ranging from tsunami rehabilitation, to a community radio project with women, to resource mapping in rural Maharashtra, to innovative appoaches to combat corruption in municipal governance. Other projects include an on-going effort to develop a domestic volunteerism culture within India.

Click here for more details on the 2005-2006 Indicorps Fellowship Projects. (Not Current)

The 2004-2005 Indicorps projects included a variety of partnerships ranging from assessing after school programs, to innovative partnerships to build unity and communal harmony through music. Other projects included an institution building project for a grassroots sanitation training facility, a tribal adolescent health initiative, entrepreneurship development in at-risk youth, and an effort to empower the children of sex-workers to avoid continuing in the footsteps of the previous generation.

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The 2003-2004 projects included education-based initiatives such as creative rural Learning on Wheels, Education from the Earth, and Teaching Science through Experiential Learning. Other projects included community development initiatives to empower the visually challenged, create a rural design school and handicraft cooperative, and design a community center in a slum (continued from 2002-2003 fellowship year).

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The 2002-2003 projects featured a drama with street children in Mumbai, a watershed management program in Kachcch, incorporation of basic technology to help a literacy campaign in tribal villages, and teaching life skills through children's self-help groups in Kerala. In addition, fellows worked with Manav Sadhna, an NGO based at the Gandhi Ashram, to design a community center in Ramapir No Tekro and to market hand-made paper products designed to help street children earn and learn.

Click here for more details on the 2002-2003 Indicorps Fellowship Projects (Not Current).