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Vlerick Supports Management Education in India

Xavier Institute of Development Action & Studies (Xidas)

Empowerment of the rural poor -- Michel Van den Bogaert, Jesuit and founder of the Xavier Institute of Development Action & Studies (Xidas) in Jabalpur, India, is passionate about this.

A venture of the Madhya Pradesh Jesuit Society, Xidas functions as a rural development resource centre for the State of Madhya Pradesh by providing research, project assessment, training courses, and coaching to new projects. The institute networks with other well-known Jesuit Institutes in India and works in cooperation with India's state and national governments and with national and international development agencies.

Xidas’ MBA in Rural Management trains ‘facilitators’ to teach the local rural population how to manage their own development. In 2004, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School decided to sustain this valuable project through fundraising and exchange of students and faculty.

Read more about:

• the Xavier Institute of Development Action & Studies.

• the Support Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School offers Xidas

• the Bargi Dam exploration and development projects

• the Christmas charity donation of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School