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  • A start-up in India treats the poor as discerning customers, not aid recipients

    Rhitu Chatterjee

    November 06, 2014 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: India, Tamil Nadu

    Two Americans created a small start-up in rural India to help bring life-sustaining technologies to the poor. But they're not giving away solar lamps and low-power appliances: They're selling them.

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  • India's School Lunch Program Imperfect, But Deserves Credit for Feeding Millions

    Rhitu Chatterjee

    July 20, 2014 |

    Pulitzer Center |

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    Response Location: India, Dujana, Haryana

    In India, the country with the highest rate of child malnutrition in the world, the government started a free school lunch program which is rescuing children from dire hunger and improving their diets.

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  • India's school lunch program not only fights hunger — it can breed tolerance

    Rhitu Chatterjee

    July 17, 2014 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: India, Bawani Khera, Haryana

    India’s free school lunch program is one of the world’s largest anti-poverty programs. Despite its many shortfalls, the program feeds 120 million of the country’s poorest school children. The idea is that if children of different castes can be taught to sit and eat together on a daily basis, it makes caste a little less important in their lives.

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