Organisations

Centre for Total Development

India

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Vill-Jigra
PO-Bahirkhanda
Hooghly District
West Bengal

Aims to improve the physical, mental, social and spiritual weel-being of persons living below the poverty line within West Bengal. The resource centre is open tot he public

The Humsafar Trust

India

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PO Box 6913
Santacruz(W)
Mumbai 400 054

The Humsafar Trust rates itself as India's premier NGO working in the Men who have Sex with Men sector. It has successfully managed sites in Mumbai metro and finished the baseline study of MSM risk behaviours. It is now implementing the targetted intervention in the MSM sector and giving care and health services through its STI clinic in the Humsafar Centre

Books for Change

India

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139, Richmond Road
Bangalore 560 025

Books for Change is a publishing and distribution initiative set up to support the communication needs of civil society organisations and the development sector in India. It aims to bring together the enormous resources and leadership that exist in this area by communicating facts, perceptions and possibilities to do with social change as well as share information relevant to the change process. Orders can be submitted to bfc@actionaidindia.org

M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF)

India

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Third Cross Street
Taraman Institutional Area
Chennai 600 113

MSSRF is doing research in five areas, coastal systems; biodiversity and biotechnology; ecotechnology and sustainable agriculture; reaching the unreached; and education, communication, training and capacity building. The flagship project of the Informatics Group is the Information Village Research Project, which has now transferred to the National Virtual Academy for Food Security and Rural Prosperity. Apart from the headquarters at Chennai, the MSSRF has many field centres in Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. MSSRF works with underpriveleged groups including dalits and tribal populations.

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