NGOs in India Apna Ghar, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, and Cuddles Foundation share their inspiring founding stories on KBC with Amitabh Bachchan.
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Why India Needs to Focus on the Education of its Children
India caught the world’s eye when a recent UN report declared that more than half of the nation’s population is under the age of 25, accounting for more than 600 million people. With a major segment of its people constituting of children and youth, India surely seems to be on its way to a bright…
Volunteering: Something For Your Soul
After three nominations in the past, Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar for the Best Actor in 2016 for his impeccable performance in ‘The Revenant’. The point to note is that his award acceptance speech was nothing about himself! Spanning a much celebrated career and global fame, DiCaprio chose to speak about global warming instead.…
Akshaya Patra Foundation: Addressing the painful pangs of hunger
Let us revisit a small tale from the Mahabharata to get a better understanding of the term “Akshaya Patra”. This goes back to the time when the Pandavas and queen Draupadi were living in exile. In those days, a lot of their acquaintances used to visit them in the forest which formed their temporary residence.…
Depression: A Threat To Be Reckoned With
Back in the 14th century, an outcast was someone excluded from society for committing a crime or breaking the law. An outcast was someone like Robin Hood, he was celebrated. However, the definition underwent a drastic change by the time we got to the 21st century. Now an outcast is a depressed person, lurking in the…
This businesswoman has a brilliant way to fight poverty
It isn’t uncommon for entrepreneurs to be philanthropists. They run some of the world’s largest charitable organisations. But it isn’t often that you find someone who sells their multi-million dollar business and sets up a nonprofit that works to eradicate poverty with the money. That’s the story of Christel DeHaan, the 76-year-old founder of Christel…
Why Women Empowerment Does Not Reach Villages
In a country like ours where ~99 percent (Source: National Crime Records Bureau) of the rapes go unreported, the success of the #MeToo movement is a happy flip in favour of women empowerment. Indian women are starting to speak up of what is otherwise tucked away under the sheet of shame, and this is proving…
Small Talk with Neichute Doulo
CHANGE leaders do great things, and often that is all we know about them. Here we want to get a different glimpse of the personalities that constitute the development space. Every month we get one leader to answer four questions, not necessarily about their work, but about themselves. This week we catch up with NEICHUTE…
5 Creative Fundraising Campaigns
INDIA’s tenth Daan Utsav just ended with tens of thousands of people celebrating the giving festival by donating their time, money, skills or even hugs. As different kinds of donation campaigns flooded social media, the one thing that became clear was the need to stand out. The ease of electronic transactions has taken online fundraising…
They saved 1000+ vulnerable newborns in Mumbai
Imagine what India will look like if all our children are born healthy, grow up with a healthy and developed brain and body, and become productive members for the country! Imagine what that scale of economic growth will do for our country if malnutrition stops threatening our future. – Piyasree Mukherjee, FMCH “Health is Wealth”…