alaam Baalak Trust (SBT) was established in 1988 with the proceeds from Salaam Bombay! (1988, directed by Mira Nair), a much celebrated film of its time depicting the day-to-day lives of children eking it out on the streets of Bombay (Mumbai). Originally intended to rehabilitate the actual street children who appeared in the film, the…
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 social impact, sustainability, growth potential and innovation, the expert jury selected 13…
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) Island in the Formosa Strait, where he was speaking to college students. Upon…
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 United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India (UELCI) made an appeal for relief…
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 thousands of physically challenged – differently abled – citizens of the country makes…
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 by David Gershon and Gail Straub, founders and co-directors of the Empowerment Institute”s…
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 one of his regular work and play days when Matthew Spacie realised how…
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 buzz around celebrating World Environment Day on September 16, to spread awareness about…
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 mere ‘line’ into a reality. Last week, amidst all those stories of cacophonic politics,…
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 the cheapest mode of transport available, in the search and hope of greener…
