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Internships in India

SOLIDARITÉ offers internships in South India at the Indian Institute of Training on Post Development (ITTPD).
Every summer, the training institute welcomes around 15 interns for 15 days. The interns then chose one of our partners to guide them on their 2 to 6 months in field training course.

The ITTPD opened its doors in Chettikuppam in 2003. This training and information centre is not only for professionals but also for any one interested in alternative development (students, coordinators, social workers, members of international solidarity organisations, ...). It has a network of international searchers and social workers and is a resource center on post-development.

What is the purpose of a post development research center ?

It is widely agreed that the western development model has failed to meet the needs of the most impoverished. The gap between rich and poor countries has continued to widen.

In 1960, developed countries were 20 times richer than the developing countries, in 1982 they were 42 times richer and this tendency continues to grow.

Therefore the training center is the ideal place for students, searchers and social workers to meet around a common theme : What are the alternative actions to be undertaken for our socioeconomic environment ? Propose, analyze, adapt itself and act for the most deprived persons.

The aim is to sensitize men and women to other ways of considering the world, alternative ways of life and to rethink the notion of development.

 


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Each year the professionals who teach are different. They are all specialists in their own fields ( anthropology,agronomy,sociology,economy,political science etc.)

Mira Shiva :

Medical consultant at VHAI (Voluntary Health Association of India) she is concerned with the ethics of medicine and with traditional Indian medicine. She is at the forefront of the fight against ’bad’ products issued by the multinational drug companies and thanks to her intervention 35 such medicines were withdrawn from the market by the Indian Minister of Health.


Rajagopal P.V. :

A Gandhian activist leader of the ’Ekta Parishad’,a popular movement which is fighting the cause for underpriviledged, notably the untouchables, tribal people, espace women, organizing peace marches (padyatra).


L S Anthony Samy :

Social worker, executive director of BLESS. He is working on the promotion of solidarity movement on behalf of the poorest people in rural Tamil Nadu.


Francois de Ravignan :

Agricultural engineer, ex-researcher for (for INRA) he worked for a long time in Southern countries and has written many works , including ’La Faim Pourquoi" (La Decouverte), "Carnets de voyage en Inde" (2003-2005, La Ligne d’Horizon) and "Carnet de voyage en Pologne" (2006). more information

 

Clothilde de Ravignan :

Doctor of Anthropology (religion) with an EA in sociology. She is a teacher of inter-cultural relationships and formulated a course on this for the municipality of Toulouse. She used to live in Africa, having spent six years in Cameroon and Algeria.

 

Laurent Beaumont :

Professor of Agrimony. Agricultural engineer, he has organized and participated in trainings for several organizations : goat farms, inter-professional organizations and local authorities. After obtaining a masters in rural sociology, he made some researches on popular naturalistic knowledges. Since 2009 he has been professor of agronomy in the agricultural education in charge of BEP, classes in BTS and Bachelor degree.

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Subramaniam, manager IITPD and Vocational Training Center for Women

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