The South Asia Foundation (SAF), a not-for-profit association that operates in India and the seven other countries of the SAARC community, has decided to further the goals of women’s education and empowerment by pledging $1 million to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).
Southern Asia Studies Programme, UNESCO MISARC
Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India
Co-sponsored by Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
March 9-11, 2011
Some years ago, in the mid-90s, I walked about 20 kilometres in a yatra over several days along the amazing Narmada river that cuts across the middle of India through the states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra.