HRDF Collaborators

This is not an exhaustive list. Quite a large number of our esteemed collaborators could not be include due to space constraints. We are thankful to all of them.

• National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, for supporting our science-based programs like Explaining the Scientific Basis of Miracles, Low Cost Teaching Aids, Do-it-Yourself Science Experiments, Learning Mathematics through Origami, Growing plants by Hydroponics, Solid Waste Management through Vermi-composting, and Taking Science to the Masses through Fairs.
  
  
• Vigyan Prasar, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, for reprinting and distributing our books entitled Environment And Self-Reliance by Yona Friedman & Eda Schaur and Energy And Self-Reliance by Yona Friedman, both in English and Hindi.
  
  
• Communication Center of Scientific Knowledge for Self-Reliance, Garibaldi, Paris, France, for collaborating with us to popularize their UNESCO supported work in diverse ways. Unfortunately, the CSSKSR no longer exists.
  

• United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, France for funding our project on Low-cost Roofing Technology using Bamboo splits.
  
  
• Mission on Environment (International Cooperation), Government of France, for supporting publication of the first editions of our books entitled Environment And Self-Reliance and Energy and Self-Reliance.
  
  
• Consortium on Rural Technology (CORT), New Delhi for collaborating with us in our project on Improved Biogas Plant. Unfortunately, this wonderful organization no longer exists, but its first Executive Secretary Y.K. Sharma continues to be one of our Trustees.
  
  
• Gandhi Peace Center (GPC), New Delhi for supporting our publications program.
  
  
• Center For Advocacy And Research (CFAR), New Delhi for collaborating with us in number programs related to their field of activity.
  
  
• University of Boston, USA, for involving us in their International Honours Program on Global Ecology.
  
  
• Global Greengrants Fund, USA, for supporting the project on Intercultural Resources: Indigenous Perspectives.
  
  
• World Resources Institute, Washington, USA, for funding publication of the Report entitled A Watershed in Global Governance
  Amar Shaheed Chetna Sansthan, Mau, U.P., India for collaborating with us in our campaign against blind faith and superstition in their area.
  
  
• Society for Sustainable Development, Karauli, Rajasthan, India for collaborating with us in our campaign against blind faith and superstition in their area.
  
  
• Dharamitra, Wardha, Maharashtra, India for training 40 science teachers and activists from 12 districts of eastern U.P., India in solid waste management through vermi-composting.
  
  
• Lok Jeevan Vikas Bharti, Budha Kedar Nath, Uttaranchal, for collaborating with us in our campaign against blind faith and superstition.
  
  
• Teachers’ Training College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P. for collaborating with us in holding workshops on low-cost teaching aids and explaining the scientific basis of miracles.
  
  
• Institute For Integrated Society Development, Lucknow, U.P. for collaborating with us in diverse ways.
  
  
• Bansgaon Vikas Parishad, Chatur Banduari, Gorakhpur, U.P. for collaborating with us in our workshops on explaining the scientific basis of miracles and the UNESCO project on low cost roofing technology.
  
  
• Mitraniketan, Vellanad, Kerala for collaborating with us in the UNESCO project on low cost roofing technology. Science Aur Kainat Society of India, New Delhi for collaborating with us in diverse ways.
  
  
• Himalayee Paryavaran Shiksha Sansthan, Tehri Garhwal, Uttaranchal for collaborating in our campaign against blind faith and superstition.
  
  
• Institute for Extension of Rural Technology, Allahabad, U.P. for collaborating with us in our campaign against blind faith and superstition.
  
  
• People’s Association of Hill Area Launchers, Pithoragarh, Uttaranchal for collaborating with us in our campaign against blind faith and superstition.
  
  
• Urdu Science & Mathematics Teachers Association, Malegaon, Maharashtra, for collaborating with us in our campaign against blind faith and superstition.
  
  
• Intercultural Resources (ICR), New Delhi, for collaborating with us in their programs relating to the effects of globalization on indigenous people.
  
  
• Institute for Humanist Studies (IHS) for collaborating in the project on Demystification of Supernatual Feats by conducting programs in 30 schools and colleges in the Mau District, Uttar Pradesh (UP), India.