Connect your Heart and your Head as you travel through India with a like-minded group and the Centre for Social Response.
Assisted by our Indian partner-the Development Support Team you will journey to the heart of village communities, meet strong women and men committed to lasting change and be engaged in seeing and learning the elements of grassroots development.

This 4 week (26 day) learning and engagement program will connect you to others and to a real world of social change and development experience.

You will travel with a group of interested and interesting people from Australia and elsewhere assisted by an experienced Australian and Indian team of facilitators.
 

This learning and travel program is a unique blend of academic, NGO, activist and real world inputs and experiences and will connect you to real grass-roots development and change work.
NEW DATES!!
This program will be from 5th to 30th JAN 2009

Description of Community Leadership Program to India

You will travel to India arriving in the city of Mumbai to meet with Mike and Susan and then travel together with the group to Pune in the hills above Mumbai. There we will engage with the Indian team from the local development agency the Development Support Team (DST) and prepare ourselves for the development experience ahead.

After our community development learning inputs and community visits in Pune we will break into smaller teams and travel to rural projects in villages around the state of Maharashtra. After collecting together in Mumbai for debriefing and sharing experiences we will then travel to the state of Rajasthan for another round of village visits and inputs. There we will reflect on our experiences and together with our Indian partner Mini Bedi, build our understandings of what the whole program has taught us and spend some time reflecting on how to use this understanding constructively. Continuing to New Delhi we will have time to visit some city sights before returning home.