Category : NGO Focus

This year, India Development Marketplace (IDM), the  long-term programme supported by the World Bank Group, shortlisted 30 out of  264 proposals seeking finance to scale or replicate inclusive and sustainable  business models in Bihar, Rajasthan and Orissa. Keeping in perspective the  parameters of

[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]n 1947, when for India the idea of independence had just  been realised, Robert (Bob) Pierce, a war correspondent in the Korean War, was  moving around reporting in China. Pierce’s last stop was at the University of Amoy on Amoy  (now Xiamen)

On January 23, a leading daily reported  that Lutheran World Service India Trust (LWSIT), an NGO that fights for the  rights of the under-privileged, will kick-start a mission to stop water wastage  in Kolkata. Earlier, around January 17, the same organisation along with

[dropcap size=big]’T[/dropcap]here are no good jobs for people  with disabilities in a company; but there is a good person with a disability for every job in a company.’ This belief keeps the Ability  organisation going. Over 16 years of facilitating, encouraging and empowering

[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he idea of Imagine is embodied in something called the  Empowerment Workshop. It seeks to empower women in challenging life  circumstances to envision and create new possibilities for their life, family  and community through participation in the workshop. The training programme, developed

[dropcap size=big]’I[/dropcap]t is all about an idea that changed the environment,  channelised the positive energy, and found a vent for the negative, and brought  about an encouraging change in the lives of millions of underprivileged kids  all across the country.’ It was on

[dropcap size=big]E[/dropcap]arlier this month, three Pune-based  youths and one from Ahmednagar were selected as ‘green champions’ for Commonwealth Games  (CWG) 2010, for their contribution to  the environment through documentaries,waste-management projects,and leadership in environment-related  activities in their respective colleges. Then, there was quite a

[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap] world where everyone has a decent place to live,’ remains the utopian imagery of the world and it also makes for a nice, feel-good statement. But once in a while, there happens an entity or an organisation committed to turn this

[dropcap size=big]F[/dropcap]or them, everything is temporary. Their job, their house, their village, their city or state and even the relationships that they build at the stations they work at. They have no assets and whatever they build just shatters when they move in