Site Visit : Met Siddamma at the Resource Center on 21st December 2009. Detailed conversations with Siddamma about focus of area of work in 2010. Siddamma started working with Resource Center efforts in 2004 and thereafter got involved in working other peoples issues like relief and rehabilitation of Irulas who are bonded labourers at Red Hills, Tsunami flash flood relief efforts, low cost housing, etc. Siddamma reconfirmed that in the year 2010 her primary focus will be on resource center efforts and will spend about 70% of her time on it. This is important with respect to the Asha Austin because this was one of the primary reasons that Siddamma fellowship was approved in 2004. The resource center faces some issues currently with respect to the number of farmers that continue to work at the farm regularly and difficulty in retaining them at the far. This requires that new farmers need to be trained everytime someone new comes in. This was one of the main issues Siddamma is planning to work on in 2010 so that plans can be made long term with respect to sustainability of the farm. Other updates : http://www.ashanet.org/projects-new/documents/1006/Update_Jan2010.txt