While on press trips abroad it is always nice to know people are listening and reading back home. That’s why we’re happy to share the latest from the International Reporting Project’s new media journalists who are reporting about child survival in India.
Read our first post: New Media Journalists Travel to India, Report on Child Survival.
Interesting reads:
How Biometric Innovation is Helping TB Patients in India (Jennifer Uloma Igwe)
A common health challenge in the settlement is tuberculosis. The project we visited, called Operation Asha, is saving lives in the area through a biometric (fingerprint) system used to track patients and to ensure they take their medications.
Safe Drinking Water in India: How Smart Design Positioned Unilever as a Leader (Leon Kaye)
Hindustan Unilever is India’s largest consumer goods company, with $4 billion in annual sales and over 16,000 employees–over 5,000 of whom work at the company’s headquarters in suburban Mumbai. The division of the Dutch-British conglomerate dates back to the 1930s and its oldest brand has its origins in 1885.
My First Night In Mumbai, India (Lindsey Mastis) Also, read Visiting Mumbai’s Slums by Mastis.
It was already dark. Already past 10 p.m. But the city was alive. Shops looked open It seemed everyone was awake. People were walking around, and some cars were packed full of small children. This would be considered pretty unusual in America on a school night.
Then, on the side of the road, I noticed families.
I thought to myself, “They must live there. Under that bridge. How do they do it? How do they stay safe at night?” Our car continued on. The driver asked me if I wanted them to stop so I could take pictures. I said no, as I snapped a few pictures from my seat. It was so dark, my photos were coming out blurry.
Follow the journalists’ tweets at #IRPIndia.
Trying to put myself in the shoes of SOME of the rural Indian women & wondering what life wld be if i was married off at age 17!! #IRPIndia
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Joy Doreen BIIRA (@JoyDoreenBiira) February 25, 2013Some of the scooters @csi_ngo uses to reach out to the communities #IRPIndia #Delhi #India http://t.co/y99pzFNIeF
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Joy Doreen BIIRA (@JoyDoreenBiira) February 25, 2013Two expectant women at their baby shower. Shower is themed for support & info on having a healthy baby #IRPIndia http://t.co/BMY9QA5Ht2
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Joanne Manaster (@sciencegoddess) February 25, 2013The pharmacist at a mobile clinic that serves 700 people a week #IRPIndia instagr.am/p/WJVrUfjQrj/
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IRP (@IRPChirps) February 25, 2013"rural #India - the most complex part of the world...practicing professions never heard of or seen", P. Sainath insight to #IRPIndia #Mumbai
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Joy Doreen BIIRA (@JoyDoreenBiira) February 22, 2013Just touched base #Delhi from #Nagpur #IRPIndia http://t.co/9lGBoM3TE4
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Joy Doreen BIIRA (@JoyDoreenBiira) February 24, 2013Theres a belief in parts of rural #India; parents dont name a baby until he/she turns 1 or 2. Fear that they'll die b4 they turn 5 #IRPIndia
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Joy Doreen BIIRA (@JoyDoreenBiira) February 24, 2013Lost of excited villagers in a field on the way back, there was a tiger sighting. The town was buzzing -- it has killed two cows #IRPindia
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(@misskaul) February 23, 2013"Inequality has grown faster than everything else in the past 20 years...not information technology." ~ P. Sainath #IRPIndia
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Mark Kaigwa (@MKaigwa) February 22, 2013India: literacy v female feticide: higher literacy, higher female feticide rate. Chandigarh: 100%literacy, 4:5 female/male ratio #IRPIndia
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Leon Kaye (@LeonKaye) February 22, 2013P. Sainath: People come looking for the 'real India' but both Indias, that of the super rich and and that of the deprived,are real #IRPIndia
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Jose M. Calatayud (@JoseMCalatayud) February 22, 2013Read more at the International Reporting Project.
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