Unite for India's Progress

INDICORPS ANNOUNCES 2007/2008 FELLOWSHIP (DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2007).

[ClickPress, Mon Feb 19 2007] The rhythms will be different. But street dancer/Network Engineer Rohan Jasani is not worried. This year on January 26th 2007, he joined a group of individuals from the US to begin a year-long fellowship with Indicorps, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to leveraging the skills of non-resident Indians for grass roots level development projects in India. The rhythms of Lavada, Maharashtra, where Rohan will be helping to create awareness of bamboo craft artisans within India and international markets, will no doubt be distinct from the hiphop that Jasani is accustomed to, but he is enthusiastic. The point, as he and other Indicorps Fellows strongly believe, is not what one can gain or lose by being in India, but what one can give to inspire progress.

A similar spirit of service spurred Gagan Rana Singh, a Senior Analyst at J.P Morgan to apply to the Fellowship and embark on a yearlong journey in India that will find him attending a challenging orientation program with other Fellows and then working on a project to set up a self-governed microfinance federation in Jahlihal, Maharashtra. The same feeling motivates Indicorps Fellows Karthik Raman and Aazamina Rangwalla to work in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra respectively, to empower villagers to understand the benefits of long-term health and nutrition as well as HIV Peer Education Programs.

Individuals like these come every year to Indicorps from diverse professional backgrounds and varying levels of familiarity with India to deepen and share their experience of their homeland as well as to implement sustainable solutions to the most pressing needs of the communities they live with. Fellows are based through seven states in India, from Tsunami-affected areas of Tamil Nadu to West Bengal. Each fellow has a specific project that they aim to implement in partnership with a local development organisation. Projects range from transparency and governance to adult literacy to women’s health. The fellowship process, from the mentally and physically challenging Orientation program to complete immersion in project locales, is designed to bring out the leadership potential and determination of each individual.

‘I was remade this year because of you. It was at times an incredibly painful process – physically, emotionally and otherwise. There were many days when I wanted to come home…then you have made me redefine what I thought home was’.

Bindi Gandhi
Improve Slum Life Fellow, August 2003

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Serving India teaches Indicorps Fellows the importance of ‘being the change’. To be part if it yourself or get more information about Indicorps and its programs, please visit www.indicorps.org or email info@indicorps.org. Fellowship Applications must be submitted by April 1, 2007


ABOUT INDICORPS

Indicorps is a non-partisan, non-religious, non-profit organisation that encourages Indians around the world to actively participate in India's progress. Indicorps' initiatives are designed to build principled leadership, empower visionaries, inspire collective action, and unite India towards a common vision for the nation by productively engaging Indians around the world with the development of the country that defines their identity.


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