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...public service groups. Backed by $50,000 from the Ford Foundation, ODN paired students with grassroots groups in the central Appalachian states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The summer internship program was aimed at getting students out of offices and into the field, according to Shubham Chaudhuri '87-'88, a member of the organization...
...projects emphasize self-help, according to Chaudhuri. He says ODN's philosophy is to minimize the developers' role and encourage communities to carry out projects autonomously. The ODN chapter merely provides the money. "Hopefully they'll be able to reinvest the money and the project will become self-generating," says Lucy Perkins, a member of ODN's full-time staff...
...time is spent in the classroom talking about the injustices being committed in the world," said Shubham Chaudhuri '88, head of ODN. "The discussion, though, doesn't have any real meaning until you actually get first-hand experience doing community work out in the field, which is what we are trying...
Based at the Bangladesh headquarters of theCommilla Proshika Centre for Development, located70 miles outside Dhaka, the capital, the studentswill make a series of two-week visits to thegroup's projects throughout the Asian country,Chaudhuri said...
...HRIDF, trying to raise funds for Ashoka, set up tables in dining halls last week to talk to students and receive aid. "The response was very disappointing," said Chaudhuri...