Website Back Up, Updates on Survey

We're very sorry about the week of blog downtime! We were having technical issues from our webhosting provider. We're going to be moving to a new provider in a few days time which will have more reliable service.

There has been a lot that has happened over the last week:

1. The visit to the MGR Nagar Slum on Saturday, which was a success. We'll share more about that in a post later today.
2. The new website, which is in its final stages and should be coming out this weekend.
3. The survey, which is set to go this Saturday, at 5:00 PM.

We'll need volunteers for the survey, so if you can come, please do contact us!

More about these three will be shared in upcoming posts.

Once again, we're very sorry for the downtime.

Sangam India Twitters!

As Priyanka wrote in her introductory post, Sangam India is now on twitter. The twitter feed will be updated whenever our blog is, and we'll be sure to add plenty of other updates to keep it interesting. We'll also be following organizations and people with similar focuses to tap into the network of activism around the world.

You can see our twitter feed at http://twitter.com/sangamindia. If you have a twitter account, please follow us! For those who use a newsreader, you can also connect to our twitter via RSS.

Thanks to Priyanka for her hard work in developing this.

Promotional E-Packet

We have compiled the Promotional Packet into an e-version which allows it to be viewed easily, on the computer. A sample is included below but you can view it in full-size if you would like.

Click here to view the e-packet as a separate window.

Viewing requires Adobe Flash 8 or above. This feature is powered by Issuu. These e-format pdfs are a great way to incorporate the content onto a website - and we hope that we'll be using more of them when our new site launches.

The Promotional Packet contains the following:

• Sangam India English Flyer
• nXG: "Youngistan in Action" article
• Times of India: "Coming Together for Health"
  
• Times of India: "Sangam India holds health camp for kids"
• The Women's International Perspective: "Students in India Take Social Change into Their Own Hands"
• Kumudam article, in Tamil and with English translation
• Anand Charity: “Building a better India, slum by slum"
• A selection of photographs from the last year.

It is still available as a .pdf here.

New Website in the Works

We're working on a new website for Sangam India. This is being generously made by Tina Ye, a professional webdesigner from Boston, USA. She is hard at work making a new site that will be more exciting and hopefully have fewer glitches. This current design is about eight months old.

Currently, we're working on the outline for the new website. Please let us know if you have any ideas that you have about what should be included on the new site. We'd love to know about your opinions.

Idealist.org Profile

We now have a profile on idealist.org, a website started by the NGO Action Without Borders, which "connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives."

Various NGOs from around the world put up profiles on this site, along with their events, promotional materials, campaigns, and activities. They put in jobs and volunteer opportunities and find other NGOs with similar projects to collaborate with.

Its a great idea and it has a lot of potential to enhance the activities of all these groups through the power of the internet.

Take a minute to check out our idealist.org profile. We hope that we'll be able to work with other groups and find more help through this excellent resource.

Visit our idealist.org profile

Sangam India Calendar

We've made a calendar on Google Calendars to allow people to keep track of upcoming events. We'll do our best to keep this as up to date as possible as we know there are people who would be interested in having an up to date schedule of events online.

Of course, if you are interested in something, its always better to inquire about it as events are liable to change.

Click here to view the full size calendar.

The calendar can always be seen at its URL: http://sangamindia.org/calendar.html.

We'll have a link to the calendar on our main page as well as on the blog so that it will always be easily accessible.