News
INTAF conference to be held November 2008 in India
INTAF
(the International Task-Force for the Rural Poor, an organisation closely
linked with IVCS), is running a conference in November 2008 with the theme
"Poverty, Politics and Power".
click here for further details
May 2007: Health Care Fund for an eye clinic
Last year, a new Health Care Fund appeal was launched, and has already raised £3000 towards a new eye clinic.
For more details, see the Health Care Fund appeal page
December 2006: Degree college news
98% of final-year degree students graduating in 2006 passed their BA examinations.
A record 430 students have enrolled for first year BA courses this year, bringing the total
student population to 757.
10 students have enrolled for the post-graduate diploma in Rural
Resource Management for year 2006/7, including two international students
who heard of the course when visiting the project at APK.
Feb 2006: Child Scholarship report for 2005/6
The
report is now available, showing how your donations will be used to help
school children in rural India in the current academic year.
Nov 2005: Eye camp
A free eye camp was held from 7th to 12th November thanks to a generous donation from an IVCS supporter.
Over 500 patients were treated, and 53 patients were referred to hospital for cataract operations.
All the operations were successful.
July 2005: INTAF conference
INTAF
(the International Task-Force for the Rural Poor, an organisation closely
linked with IVCS), ran a conference in July 2005 on the subject
"Investing in the Rural Poor". See Spring 2006 newsletter for details
October 2004: success of post-graduate diploma
The eight students who completed their post-graduate diploma in Rural
Resource Management in 2003 have now completed their 1-year placements and
have all obtained jobs in good NGOs, earning good salaries.
Two of them are now employed by the APK project itself.
20 students have enrolled for this year's course.
January 2004: Degree college results
Once again, 100% of final-year degree students passed their BA examinations.
All eight post-graduate students passed their post-graduate diploma in Rural
Resource Management, with five of them receiving a "first division"
mark (a mark of more than 60%).
January 2004: Success of the new B Ed course
Last year, extra dormitories and lecture rooms were added to the Degree College in
the hope that the new B Ed course would attract more students. 100 students,
including 26 girls, enrolled in the B Ed course in October 2003.
September 2003: Intercollege is now teaching Maths and Science at Sixth Form level
The Government has just given permission for the Intercollege to run science and
maths in the sixth form. We have a good class of students for the first year of
sixth form and two new teachers with degrees in Physics and Maths.
