Category Archives: AMUUR

AMUUR VILLAGE COMPUTER CENTER TAKES ANOTHER STEP FORWARD TO COMPLETION

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Curt Degler

Amuur Computer Center getting a coat of paint from our High-Tech volunteer painting crew

In India, as in most places,  business is often conducted between friends and acquaintances and those to whom we are personally introduced.  So it is with getting institutional support for our slowly developing Computer Center in Amuur.  One of the American Directors of SAVE-INTL had some years ago developed a friendship with a colleague at work who was on temporary assignment from India. Time passed and they lost contact… Read the rest

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AMUUR COMPUTER CENTER BEING READIED

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Curt Degler

Work is well underway for the inauguration of the long-planned Amuur Village Computer and Technology Center, located in a two room building constructed by TVO and SAVE-INTL with the financial assistance of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund of Kiel Germany.

The Center is conveniently situated on the Main Road between Tiruporuur and Manampathi, just south of the Old Mahabalipuram Road in the Tiruporuur Block of Kanchipuram District, about 35 KM south of Chennai, Tamilnadu. Just adjacent to the Village Bus Stand,  the building has a flat concrete roof with the computer center room about 5 by 8 meters in size. We have already… Read the rest

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AMUUR EYE CLINIC HOSTED BY SOUTH ASIAN VILLAGE EMPOWERMENT

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Curt Degler

 

Cataracts, a clouding of the optic lens in the eye, are common among the majority of the older people who live in rural villages in Tamilnadu, and the most common cause of non-congenital blindness. Villagers, who have labored most of their lives since they were children doing field work, planting, transplanting, and harvesting rice and preparing fields by plowing, repairing irrigation works etc., do so without any eye protection from the strong, hot solar rays of the long summer in Tamilnadu. The result is a high incidence of cataracts and blindness among the aged. While easily treatable… Read the rest

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