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Print Access for All: Anna Reid in Chennai

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Reflections on an internship with Bookshare.org in Chennai, India Made possible through support from the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement Anna Reid, religion major, class of 2010 Anna Reid with employees of Worth Trust, a South Indian organization that provides vocational training and employment for people with disabilities.

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Meet the Bookshare in-house summer volunteer team!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare , Benetech's online library for people who are blind or otherwise print-disabled, is fortunate to have a variety of summer interns and volunteers working in our Palo Alto office this year. It’s a great place to work and I love having a desk! Our main focus has been our text book image description project. And I LOVE it!

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Understanding Income Inequality

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Have the answers to these questions changed during recent years (2007, 2010, 2013)? In short, working with the LIS data would enable this Uruguayan anti-poverty group to better understand the causes and components of poverty in Uruguay, which – in turn – would enable them to think more specifically about a range of intervention strategies.

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