VE Founders Visit Purulia Project

In June, Ed Shinn and Maury Albertson spent several days in Calcutta visiting with Milan and Mousumi Dinda. Milan arranged for them to meet with the officials and a group of students from the Agricultural University near Calcutta. These students are from the villages of the Purulia project and are waiting to be trained as Internal Activators (Change Agents) to work on development back in their villages. The University personnel are anxious to work with Village Earth and they are also setting up an International Memorandum of Understanding (IMOU) with Colorado State University to carry out joint activities. With the help of the Agricultural University, arrangements were made for Ed and Maury to give a seminar on the basic principles of Village Earth. With the help of Dr. Subrankar Mukherjee , arrangements were made with the American Consulate in Calcutta to have a seminar on Village Earth for village development organizations based in or near Calcutta. About 30 organizations were represented. A very spirited discussion followed the presentation.

Maury and Ed came away from these meetings extremely impressed with what Milan and Mousumi Dinda have accomplished.