Upcoming Survey, July 18th 2009

We have been working hard on our survey that we are going to be conducting this Saturday at the MGR Nagar Slum.

The objective of this survey is to learn more about the community and to use this information to determine how to best help the people there.

A large number of people have been involved in making the survey, a project that has been coordinated by Goutam Bagga, a volunteer from Sheffield, Britain.

The survey was developed by three teams:

• A health and nutrition survey, developed by Dr. Gayatri
• A sanitation survey, developed by Kathleen Bush, a PhD student from Michigan.
• An educational survey, developed by Educational Committee.

With the help of our wonderful volunteers, we hope to use this survey to collect data about the community. We have tried to keep the survey short in order to be able to cover more of the population.

We've also made a quick handout for the interviewers and a consent form for the interviewees is in the works.

We will be using the census data provided by Paadhai in order to quicken the data collection. An immense thanks to Krithika Rajaram, of our Educational Committee, for translating this into English in a usable format.

If you are in Chennai and would like to help us volunteer the survey; we could really use your help! The success of this survey will depend now on having as many volunteers as possible to ask questions. Please contact us if you are interested.

This is the survey we are using, attached as a PDF: MGRSurvey.pdf