Development in Action

The charity offers 5-month (Sept-Feb) and 2-month (July-Sept) volunteer placements in India.

The Development in Action programme achieves its aims through: DiA sprang from a gap year scheme in which student volunteers taught English in village schools in Western Madhya Pradesh, India.

The organiser was retiring, but the local communities in India and the participating volunteers wanted to continue the programme.

In February 1992, while still in India, the volunteers and locals began to plan a new scheme to continue the link.

DiA won the national prize of Youth Clubs UK for "International Awareness", and received an award from Lord Westminster at St. James' Palace, November 1995.