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Catching up with SAI Interns

Read Shalini Pammal’s blog post in the Harvard Alumni Summer Diaries

Shalini, class of 2013, is a SAI 2012 grant recipient and had an internship at the Samhita Academy in Bangalore. Click here for details about the internship and learn how to apply.

Annie Ryu named a Top 10 College Woman of 2012 by Glamour Magazine

Annie, class of 2013, is a 2011 and 2012 SAI grant recipient. Her 2011 grant brought her to Karuna Trust in Bangalore, where she helped create a service that texts appointment reminders from a rural health clinic to new and expectant moms.

 

Click below to read the SAI Grant Recipients reports from the past four years.

Student Grant Reports – 2011

Student Grant Reports – 2010

Student Grant Reports – 2009

Student Grant Reports – 2008

 

SAI 2012 Grant Reports

In the summer of 2012, 49 students from Harvard traveled to South Asia on SAI funding to participate in research, internships, and group projects. Undergraduate and graduate students spanned out across South Asia to participate in internships at the Samhita Academy in Bangalore, the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund in Islamabad, and the Center for Policy Research in Delhi, among many other organizations across various sectors. SAI funded research included research on women textile workers in Tamil Nadu, a project on the fan-throated lizard, Sitana ponticeriana, and a senior thesis on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in New Delhi. Read the 2012 Grant report here. 

In addition to the SAI research and internship grants, the 2012 Omidyar Grant for Innovative Solutions, made possible by the Omidyar Network, Inc. funded the projects of two teams of Harvard students: Global Innovation for Translation (GIFT) and MOBILIZE! Digital Libraries. Click here to read the MOBILIZE! Digital Libraries 2012 Report or Click here to read the GIFT 2012 report.

More information about the groups is available on the Omidyar Grant for Innovative Solutions page.

Student Videos

Rena Mei, Harvard College ’13, spent her 2012 Summer Internship at St. Jude’s Child Care in Mumbai. Click here for the St. Jude’s Internship Description.
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Rena’s summer internship with SAI from The South Asia Initiative on Vimeo.

Ginny Fahs , Harvard College ’14, spent her 2012 Summer Internship at SPARC in Mumbai.
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Ginny’s summer internship with SAI from The South Asia Initiative on Vimeo.

 

The MOBILIZE! Digital Libraries group, the recipients of the 2012 Omidyar Grant for Innovative Solutions, is composed of Nisha Deolalikar, Jenna Louie, and Viroopa Volla, of Harvard College, and Karlie Fox-Knudtsen, of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The MOBILIZE! team is advised by Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School.

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MOBILIZE! Digital Libraries from The South Asia Initiative on Vimeo.

Omer Awan, Applied Math Concentrator and Harvard College Class of 2014, created this documentary of his 2012 summer internship at the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund in Islamabad, Pakistan.

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Annie Ryu, Anthropology Concentrator and Class of 2013, created this video of a Jackfruit Dissection. From Annie’s grant report:

“I returned to India in May 2012 with four weeks to identify enough suppliers of dried jackfruit to meet the store demand I had developed over the last several months in the U.S. I had decided in August 2011 that I would build a company to import dried jackfruit and other jackfruit products into the U.S. to help Indian farming families.” gain higher incomes.”

Click for more information about Annie’s company Global Village Fruits.

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