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A golden GOAL Living in the ‘moment’ Breaking silences By the people, for the people An InspirED goal Have an idea? Your options are Unltd Building blocks for the future
 
A golden GOAL

A golden GOAL

Naz Foundation empowers underprivileged girls through the sport of netball By Neil Maheshwari The ground at Abhinav Gyan Mandir in Trombay looks dusty and forgotten most of the time. But, twice a week – between 10 am and noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays – a curious exercise takes place here: A group of pre-teen and [...]

Living in the ‘moment’

Living in the ‘moment’

NGO Kshana organises events for the underprivileged, for the sheer fun of it By Shahid Judge The Shanti Avedna Ashram in Bandra (W) is usually a quiet refuge, as a hospice for advanced and terminally ill cancer patients needs to be. But Sunday, May 29, 2011, was different. Thirty-four children, along with their parents and [...]

Breaking silences

Breaking silences

Pooja Taparia and her NGO, Arpan, spread awareness to prevent child sexual abuse and help survivors reclaim their lives By Aditi Seshadri A chance viewing of a play changed the course of Pooja Taparia’s life. It was 2003, and Pooja came out of Lillette Dubey’s 30 Days of September, moved by the trauma of child [...]

By the people, for the people

By the people, for the people

Community media are empowering the poor with a voice to tell their stories By Aditi Seshadri It’s an unusual sight, even for a local railway station: Scores of children sitting patiently in line, outside Bandra station, wearing black headbands, holding up posters and signs that say ‘Kab tak sahte rahenge hum?’ (Till when will we [...]

An InspirED goal

An InspirED goal

The ambitious InspirED education conference kicks off on August 27, Friday. Organised with the aim of focusing on innovative approaches in the classroom, the conference will draw together hundreds of India’s teachers from around the country. Mumbai Action caught up with Vandana Goyal, CEO of Akanksha Foundation, one of the key organisations behind the event [...]

Have an idea? Your options are Unltd

Have an idea? Your options are Unltd

“If you are passionate and have a good idea, the money and resources will come.” Pooja Warrier speaks with enviable conviction. It probably stems from the fact that, in the past few years, she’s been the one providing the means for a number of passionate people to launch their great ideas. Pooja, 29, is director [...]

Building blocks for the future

Building blocks for the future

Mumbai Mobile Creches gives kids of migrant construction workers food, shelter and a chance to learn It’s a common sight in Mumbai. Towering structures covered by scaffolding and swarming with workers, lifting, pounding, carrying, building. This skyscraper, located on a large tract of what used to be mill land in Agripada, is no different. But [...]

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Opinion: The RTE challenge — Why private schools matter

25 January 2012

By Aditi Seshadri It’s now been nearly two years since the watershed Right to Education Act 2009 — making education a fundamental right for every child between the ages of 6 and 14 years — was implemented in India but, as the recently published Annual Status of Education Report 2011 (ASER 2011) by NGO Pratham [...]

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Job: Woman journalist needed to train and mentor rural women

20 January 2012

Nirantar, a centre for gender and education, is looking for people to join the team that is going to be involved in Khabar Lahariya expansion in the next year. The centre is looking for a dynamic woman to join a team that is setting up a chain of local language rural newspapers, Khabar Lahariya, run [...]

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Games and dancing for Andheri orphan boys

20 January 2012

Kshana, an NGO that organises entertainment events for underprivileged and marginalised people, will have its first event of 2012 at YMCA, Andheri, on January 22, 2012. The 72 young boys, aged 6 to 17 years, will get to enjoy a fun-filled event, with games like Paper Dance and Four Corners, and a face painting contest, [...]

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50% Class 5 students can’t read Class 2 books

20 January 2012

India’s school education success story has a flip-side: more than half of the students in class V in rural India cannot read the text taught in class II in 2011, even though around 97 % of children in the 6-14 age group are now enrolled in schools. The startling fact is finding of NGO Pratham’s [...]

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Haan Main Apraadhi Hoon — Dance and drama performance

09 January 2012

OASIS, an organisation working towards promoting environmental awareness of the children, for the children and by the children, has organised an event called Haan Main Apraadhi Hoon, which is a dance and drama showcase to be performed at Carter Road in Bandra on January 21, 2012. The event aims to showcase the students’ learning of [...]

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Immunisation push propels India towards victory in war against polio

03 January 2012

Support from initially hostile Muslim clerics means disease is rapidly vanishing, even in city where it had the strongest hold Moradabad is a nondescript and scruffy city, 110 miles north of the Indian capital Delhi. Few have heard of it, despite its population of nearly five million. But it is about to become the site [...]

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Opinion: Malnutrition deaths in Maharashtra — Paradox of development

27 December 2011

By Nilratan Shende India has witnessed a series of changes and experienced transition from the repeated hunger and famine crisis to self-sufficiency in food, poor industrial growth and infrastructure to sizeable industrial and economic growth and not to mention scientific technological strides. It appears that India presents a dichotomous and paradoxical picture of accelerating economic [...]

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Capacity building – isn’t that what development is about?

26 December 2011

Focusing on capacity development, complex as it may be, is really the only way to help countries end aid dependency, writes Jonathan Glennie in The Guardian A mantra in development, and a constant demand in every policy paper, is that there is a need for “capacity development”. The fact that this is still such a [...]

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Officials to be sensitised on domestic violence Act

26 December 2011

The government has promised to take steps to ensure effective implementation of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, across the state. The state women and child development department said it would immediately issue a government resolution (GR) telling officials in hospitals, police stations and state offices to understand the urgency of domestic [...]

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With no proof, Dharavi tenants have nowhere to go

26 December 2011

A recent survey by an NGO shows that though the government’s eligibility criteria for free housing remains the same, the slumdwellers, an overwhelming majority of whom are tenants, don’t have documents to prove they have been living there before 1995. The state government had selected Sector 5, which was covered by the Committee for Right [...]

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