New Orleans President Obama has now billed his visit to India and points Asian as a “trade mission,” something usually done by governors, so it’s a head scratcher here and there. He visited Gandhi’s house in Mumbai, which is a nice thing to do, and probably a quiet place for a salesman and his wife …
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Prince Charles, Dharavi, and Livelihoods
New Orleans Recently in the wake of his impending new book, Prince Charles of England made headlines throughout the UK and India, by holding up the Dharavi mega-slum in Mumbai as a “model” for sustainable development. An interesting observation. Vinod Shetty, director of the ACORN Foundation (India) in Mumbai and ACORN’s Dharavi Project and I …
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 …