Mana Kosam Manam – ushering in community sanitation through collective participation
Mana Kosam Manam – ushering in Community Sanitation through Collective Participation Challapalli village in Divi Seema region in Andhra Pradesh is now known as “Swachha Sundara Challapalli”. Thanks to the unceasing efforts of the doctor couple T. Padmavathi and D.R.K. Prasad and their team of committed volunteers, a clean and green drive is going […]
Kaziranga’s circle of life: How forest department, vets and villagers join hands to fight flood fury
With 95 per cent of the World Heritage Site submerged and thousands of animal struggling to say afloat, meet the bunch of people who dive in to save the day. Since the floods struck Assam on July 8, CWRC located at Borjuli Tiniali, around 7 kms from Bokakhat town, is the only place in Kaziranga […]
This doctor couple provides food and medical care to over 1000 people
Madhuri was in class 9 when she became friends with Bharadwaj. They traveled from their villages every day to Aligarh. She went to her school, while he went to college. In the bus, they discussed a topic unusual for two teenagers from two small villages in Uttar Pradesh. They talked about their shared dream – […]
The Boat Clinics of the Brahmaputra
2,500 Estimated number of islands that form a vast and extraordinary network along the 891 km course of Brahmaputra through the state of Assam. Chars or saporisas – as they are called locally, the islands are found along the river from the state’s northern border with Arunachal Pradesh to the southwest where the Brahmaputra enters […]
A Mother to the Needy
Shanti Niketan Social Welfare Society Hundreds of helpless, destitute men line the streets of Delhi, braving the heat and cold, often rendered immobile due to disease or starvation. Several are mentally challenged, or are old, sick or infirm and are abandoned as they are a burden on their families. Some are accident victims, left in […]
Kadam Programme: Every Child in School
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) survey (IMRB-SRI, 2014) estimates that there are 6 million out-of-school children in India. The reasons for a child to never enrol or to drop out of school are many, such as frequent migration, financial constraints of family and missing identity documents. Lack of education, however, uniformly doubles the […]
Mission 100 Library movement by Sanskriti
Joginder Rohilla started Sanskriti, which sets up free libraries and offers career guidance to kids, and EtechDreams, a startup that generates employment in rural areas. As a techie with a flourishing career, Joginder Rohilla may have lived in Europe and South America, but flashes of Bahadurgarh, the small town in Haryana where he grew up, […]
A Centre for Enablement of Physically Disabled
The Narasingh Swain Memorial Trust was established in September 2001, in an effort to enable the physically disabled in India through reconstructive surgery. The Trust was set up in the memory of Late Narasingh Swain. The Trust started work in a modest way from the year 2001, treating physically disabled persons with grotesque burns, birth […]
From Textile Factory to School
Child Labour is a continuing pre-dominant challenge in India. With more than 31 million (est. 2017) “economically active” children, India currently has the highest number of children engaged in the work force in the world. Humana People to People India (HPPI), since 2015, has worked to get children of textile workers in Panipat, Haryana, out […]
This young doctor has transformed lives of more than 1lakh poor blind people in Odisha
Trilochan Netralaya is a non-profit charitable eye hospital which was established in Sambalpur, a part of western Odisha by Dr. Shiva Prasad Sahoo in 2008. Having been born in a low-income family Dr. Shiva struggled a lot to get into medical profession. After completion of postgraduation, he left the opportunity of a luxurious high […]
