Mumbai One of the more unusual, and innovative, of the programs associated with ACORN Inte rnational and ACORN India’s organizing of the Dharavi Project with ragpickers in this huge mega-slum has been a partnership called “Dharavi Rocks” between our ACORN Foundation (India) and the Blue Frog jazz club in the central part of …
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Rave Reviews for ACORN International in Dharavi
Mumbai Vinod Shetty, ACORN India’s Director, and I had been meeting for hours along Juhu Road at the Sip ‘N Munch going through our work list of what needed to be done on campaigns around remittances, the Commonwealth Games, and multi-national food contractors and their labor law violations. We had discussed the great progress …
Commonwealth Games Mess and Mayhem
Delhi Arriving in Delhi everyone from cabdrivers to front page headlines in the Times of India and every other paper led with the medal surge for India in shooting and wrestling which propelled the country to second place in early standings. They could take a small amount of pride since every other story emerging …