2006 Projects
Partnering with the Rotary Club of Darjeeling, Worlds Touch raised funds and conducted a day-long "health camp" for the residents of a defunct tea plantation. Eight local doctors, working pro bono, saw just over 600 patients that day, performing medical, eye, dental and gynecological exams. Worlds Touch provided free medication and followup visits. Hayden Hall
Worlds Touch worked closely with staffers in the development of an addition to the Hayden Hall website that would showcase the work of the women's handicrafts cooperative. Hayden Hall is a 35-year-old social service organization that empowers the poor women of the Darjeeling area. It trains paramedical workers for outlying villages, provides medical treatment, education of youth, job skills training, day care, and micro-finance opportunity for women and their children. Worlds Touch also did a technology assessment, provided social enterprise research, including Fair Trade status information. Rotary Club Executive director Patricia Perkins, working under the auspices of Rotary International as a Cultural Ambassadorial Scholar, worked closely with the Rotary Club of Darjeeling in all their community support activities, including Spread the Happiness (a gift- and fun-filled day for poor children), Read Darjeeling (a project to encourage reading and establish a library), and the Clock Tower restoration project (revitalizing a city landmark.) Worlds Touch helped improve club communications with an updated email list, a blog, a Flickr photo sharing account, and a YouTube account. Open Forum Worlds Touch conducted a month-long research project for the Community News web site that was linked to 23 community technology centers through the Cambodian countryside. The site, often the only news source available to villagers, provided unbiased news digests, photos and profiles of newsmakers. Worlds Touch investigated the feasibility and process of converting the site from proprietary to open source software. League of Human Rights Worlds Touch conducted an information recoverty project to enable the League of Human Rights to overhaul their web site. The League of Human Rights advocates for the poor and those suffering from injustice and discrimination in New Caledonia. Click here for stories of our 2004-2005 projects in Nepal. Future Plans
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