India Visit Report - January 2009

Chief Executive visit to India - January 2009

India, the “jewel in the crown” of the British Empire; rich in resources and people; boasting a booming economy, with a surging IT industry and a huge Middle Class; a railway system that is the largest in the world  (and one which works!) but a country with poor management, intense corruption and a grinding poverty in the rural areas.

It is into this land of contradictions, that James Wells makes his first visit to some of our Indian projects.

Follow James' visit online on his Video Blog.  In his first blog, James talks about his excitement at his forthcoming visit.  Subsequent blog postings should contain video footage of his visit.

Follow James' progress as he meets our partners and sees first-hand how funds are being used to improve the lives of the local community.

A leader in India's ‘Hindustan Times’ reported, “Anyone who has lived and travelled in India knows that the real poverty is not to be seen in its cities, visual evidence to the contrary notwithstanding.  It resides in out-of-the way districts and in villages where people die quietly from slow starvation and an unconscionable number of children never reach the age when they are able to walk…”