This questionnaire is to be completed by NRI Pioneers.

Who is a NRI Pioneer?

NRI Pioneer is an NRI who has already demonstrated their passion to help India, with emphasize on RURAL India. These NRI pioneers have volunteered their skills, passion for helping India and have a success story to tell. The "NRI Home Coming" (NHC) program wishes these NRI pioneers continued success and hopes to gain by their personal efforts.

Personal bio:

Name:

E-mail address

Address in USA

Address in India

Professional background: (indicate here what is your Educational background, what was your field of employment in USA etc)

Family and Children:

Project description in India:

Name of the State(s) in India - District - Village / City name

Brief description of project:

Internet / websites with more info on project:

Benefits obtained so far:

Continuing and future project plans:

Project lessons learnt:

Project phases: (if you were to divide your work so far into 4 phases, how will you describe each phase)

Are you working with a local NGO or entirely on your own?

How did you learn the ground realities?

How and why did you select the project topic that you are working on?

What was the single most hurdle that you encountered and how you solved it?

Key resources that you needed for the project - manpower, finance, technical etc

Looking back, is there any one thing, you will do differently in your project.

If you were designing this NRI-Home-Coming project, what will be 4 key items or aspects that we should design carefully (make your suggestions)

During April - May 2003, we hope to find 50 - 60 NRI pioneers like yourself. Could you help us by giving the Names and email addresses of NRI's like yourself.

Name: Email address:
Name: Email address:
Name: Email address:
Name: Email address:

In June - July 2003, we hope to bring the 50+ NRI Pioneers in an electronic forum to help define the details of the NHC program. Any thoughts on how we should do that?

Any other comments?