What we do
In all our work we seek to combine personal and informal relations with the Indian people in their own communities, along with moments of more structured interchange, which may include meetings, training and advice sessions, accompanying leaders on official visits, and so on.
Our view is that it is the informed action of the Indians themselves that will bring about lasting change and our task is to support them develop their own capacities, knowledge and responses to specific situations and problems. In some cases this may mean providing material resources of one kind or another (for example, wells for drinking water, equipment for the radio station, building materials for a community centre), but always the idea and its implementation will largely depend on the Indian people and their own organization. In many other cases, more valuable than material resources is the provision of adequate and relevant information, along with its interpretation, that will permit Indians to take their own decisions and carry them through in practice.
Our work is a response to the needs and demands of the Indian people to whom we relate. This response is organized around 4 programmes:
In addition, we are currently engaged in 3 specific projects that involve:
