the report

dear all
i am posting a link to the ifmr website, where the final report from our SHG study is now located....

http://ifmr.ac.in/cmf/category/all-posts/

the report has received a lot of positive attention... i still would like to add more to the study, and maybe even at some point in the future, go back and do follow-up work with myrada....

I think the report does contribute a lot of interesting observations and reflections. I wish it included more experiences of the women I spoke with, but unfortunately, because I was not in Chennai during its compilation, not a lot of the case studies that I developed are included... (I only sent a few over, because by the time they were compiling the report, I was into week 3 of school...)

while the last few months have flown by, i still continue to reflect on this summer's experiences. i am glad that i had the opportunity to go to india and do this work, i learned a great deal and more importantly, it gave way to more questions that i have about development, community integration, women, livelihoods, education, poverty.... pretty much everything...

more on this later.