BUILDING BLOCKS : A New Clinic at MAT

Photos by Samantha Davis.

It's all go at Dharmapuri. The new clinic (funded by various sources including proceeds from Mahalir Aran Trust's production unit Flowering Desert and of course VIA) is well underway with the shell of the building now complete. VIA made a visit to the site last Thursday accompanied by the projects' architect Ipe Chacko and construction manager Kumar. With the new well now fully operational and an electrical supply on its way the building is set for completion by this coming September. 

Above: MAT's Mercy Imondi and VIA's Janet Rogers discuss the clinic's progress. Below: the construction site

READY, STEADY, PRINT! Card Workshop Day 2

Photos by Samantha Davis.

Day 2 of the card workshop at the DIYA Foundation saw a new team visit from Goldman Sachs. Again the students and their enthusiastic assistants got to work, producing more potential designs for the new line of greetings cards whilst the VIA team got to work on some of the previous days designs. Sifting through the stacks of brightly coloured paintings, it was a tough decision but in the end we managed to select a few to to convert into computerised graphics for the cards.