Making Essential Items Available in LockDown: A GO NGO Crowd Sourcing Success Story
COVID19, now being dealt with under Disaster Management & Epidemic Acts in the Country is a Unique disaster with Lock-downs and its prolonged nature. it has bought Unique challenges of its own and so has it opened new avenues for Collaborative Solutions. One such Initiative has been taken in Ganjam District of Odisha where 2 […]
Punjab Village Uses Cow Dung To Deliver Piped Biogas Straight to Kitchens
Much before the launch of government’s GOBAR-DHAN Yojana , a small village in Punjab has been showing the way through its innovative community-run project. During his recent budget speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced the Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resources Dhan (GOBAR-DHAN) scheme with the aim of utilizing ‘waste’ to generate an alternative source of income […]
Learning in rural homes in the Corona Times – A Tribute to our Teachers
Mrs. Prabha Raman is a name you may not be familiar with but is a Hero that you must know. This is her story and how she is using digital tools to create a learning transformation in one of the most rural villages of Himachal Pradesh. Read on. It was the summer of 2019. We […]
Skill Development Programmes: Fighting COVID-19, Securing Livelihoods
Women across the world have been in the frontline to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. In HPPI’s entrepreneurship, education and community development projects, too, women have been contributing in fighting the spread of the coronavirus. From creating awareness posters to producing life-saving face masks — a very essential means of protection from the infection, women are […]
A story of hope from Rajasthan
This is Indra, a migrant worker from Madhya Pradesh. When the lockdown began, she set out on an arduous 650+ km journey from Pokhran to her home in Ratlam. Mid-way through the journey, she found respite at Maheswari Seva Sadan – a shelter home in Nathdwara where Akshaya Patra has been serving freshly cooked lunch […]
A story of hope from Rajasthan
This is Indra, a migrant worker from Madhya Pradesh. When the lockdown began, she set out on an arduous 650+ km journey from Pokhran to her home in Ratlam. Mid-way through the journey, she found respite at Maheswari Seva Sadan – a shelter home in Nathdwara where Akshaya Patra has been serving freshly cooked lunch […]
Different meanings to ‘rations’
Prayas is a social work demonstration project of the Criminology and Criminal Justice, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, established in 1990. Prayas’s focus is on service delivery, networking, training, research and documentation, and policy change with respect to the custodial/institutional rights and rehabilitation of socio-economically vulnerable individuals and groups. As Prayas engages in relief work […]
The Green COVID19 Commandos
“Women empowerment” the most fascinated word for all time discussion. But what does it actually means to the various sections of society differs. Somewhere in the belt of Vindhya range those women who were suffering from domestic violence, illegal alcoholism, gambling, started to raise their voice against these social evils with the youth team of […]
Online ICT Capacity building of Teachers during and after COVID
Anaadi Foundation has been offering free capacity building workshops for school and college teachers to make effective use of technology during this lockdown period. Thousands of children are out of school due to COVID and schools are exploring various ways of connecting to them. While some schools have been successful in adopting technology, several are […]
Nagpur Model for Food Security during #COVID19
At Nagpur Municipal Corporation, we have created a model for food security to make sure that no one in Nagpur Municipal Corporation region sleeps hungry during the current Covid pandemic.We call this as the Nagpur Model for Food Security. This model is a Public-Private People Partnership (PPPP) which NMC has created by partnering with our […]
