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KOALPARA RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
In the Spirit of Vivekananda

Rural development work in Koalpara, India. The final count according to Pinaki (Engineer) in a little over 1 year:
75 new houses, some built right over the old ones so tenants were not “displaced” then the old ones torn down. There were at least 5 “crews” working and the home owners, wives and kids working with the crews.
Innumerable new roofs and house repairs. Durgananda handed out money for this. He also financed a few new, small business ventures to very poor individuals (like bike repair).
6 or 8 deep bore (75′ +/-) tube wells which we dowsed very successfully.
Maybe a dozen toilets whose responsibility we turned over to a local Koalpara/Kotulpur NGO(?).
And Sonja’s most important work teaching over 200 Koalpara women crocheting, knitting, sewing, 10% of whom could be financially independent.