Interventions in India

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I traveled around India and visited villages with friends for research.

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Much of what I saw in India was beautiful and heartening.

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Travel in such a crowded environment required new methods.

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Some places along the coast, here in Chennai, are easier to reach by boat.

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In the more impoverished areas water was drawn from a well.

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Community pumps were common in many rural villages in India as in across Africa.

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India is going through tremendous growth.

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Mothers can tell you the most about a community's needs.

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The slums of Dharavi are an impressive and massive city sized encampment of poverty and community ingenuity.

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Slums crop up anywhere the land is not demanded, along railroads, beneath highway bridges and outside of cities.

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Larger slums have their own economy and market system.

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All across India I waited for cows to clear the road to resume the journey.

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In the heat of summer night markets are bustling.

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Where power is near but unaffordable, it is taken.

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A service exists where for a fee illegal taps removed by the power company are quickly replaced.

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There are many kinds of community.