Bhubaneswar        A jolt in the schedule to advance the ACORN International partnership with Action Aid (India) had me flying to Bhubaneswar, a moderately sized city I knew little to nothing about other than that it was the capital of the Indian state of Orissa, the poorest state in a poor nation.  Bhubaneswar had been …

Kolkata    Coming back from a day in Bhubaneswar (more on that to come), I kept checking the blackberry for reports from Vinod in Mumbai on the outcome of the ACORN India.  Finally, hitting the rain soaked and much weathered Kolkata airport, the reports were coming in.       The numbers were on the button:  300 children …

Delhi  It wasn’t just the fact that there were maybe 50- 80 wastepicker workers there at the first conference and now there were close to 500 a year later at the 2nd conference.  It was more a sense that some maturity was coming into the organization, but not just that I guess.  What was really exciting …