Blindness, Disability, Empowerment, Entrepreneurs, Kerala, Social Development, community development
Braille Without Borders: IISE
In the midst of the backwaters of Kerala, when you visit IISE (International Institute Of Social Entrepreneurship) you are sure that it is a perfect setting anyone could have imagined for an institute like that. Far from rat race of the cities, situated in Kochivelli, IISE campus is a perfect amalgamation of modernization, simplicity and technicality. IISE...
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Event Alert: Sankalp 2010 + TBI Logo Contest
Two things that we wanted to talk about in this post. One is about India’s largest Social Investment Forum – Sankalp 2010. The other is a new logo contest where you get to design the logo of The Better India! The Better India Logo Contest Alright, so you have been reading this site for a while now. And you would agree that the website is a little drab, devoid of colors (unlike the wonderfully...
Interview: Smita Ram – Rang De
In our lives whenever there is a financial emergency we have the privilege of access to a whole gamut of banking and financial services. We could walk into a bank avail a loan , use our credit cards. But there is a vast majority in our country who don’t even have access to a bank account. That is where ‘Microcredit’ comes into play. Microcredit refers to providing small loans to...
Blind With Camera: Images from a world that is not seen
It’s a particularly fascinating idea – visually impaired taking photographs. Did this idea take you a few seconds to comprehend? This is one of the most wonderful initiatives that have broken the myths about limitation. Blind with Camera, a wing of the Beyond Sight Foundation, is an initiative that has empowered many a visually challenged individuals to use photography as a medium to express their...
Travel Another India
Discover your heart in another India, an India that is not in any tourist guide, that is rich and vibrant, that possesses an ancient soul, full of contrasts and diversity. Taste another India, discover another way of living, doing and being. In this maddening hustle bustle of the modern day, most of us dream of a vacation , set in some tranquil abode of nature, a unique experience that enriches the...
Rose Computer Academy
Amit Kataria comes from a humble background. Brought up in Choma village, Gurgaon, Haryana by his father, a farmer and mother, a housewife, he always dreamt of making a change in the society. Never having let his walking disability come in the way of his dreams, today he has successfully transformed the lives of many in his village by imparting computer literacy and in the process, setting a precedence...
A Barefoot Journey to Tilonia
A less traveled track to Tilonia gives one a journey into Indian entrepreneurship and perhaps changes the way our villages are perceived by city dwellers. Tilonia brings you face to face with the real spirit of India. Its misty hopefulness uncovers the nature of the task that is ahead for a social entrepreneur, its uniqueness and challenges. Tilonia is a small town 25 kms from Kishangarh near Ajmer...
Udayan Care
Shivam Udayan is an intelligent kid, quick to grasp new things. Now he has started learning horse riding at school. Ajay Udayan has been the head boy of his class since the last two months, he is very interested in sports and extracurricular activites.He also took part in Ramayana sessions in school. These are just two stories out of the 180 kids in Udayan care, 11 of whom are in boy’s NOIDA...
Seek A Miracle Ataxia Group – SAMAG
SAMAG is a registered, Non-Profit support group which is relentlessly working for the cause of “Ataxia” and “Muscular Dystrophies”- a set of Neuro Muscular degenerative disorders resulting in body imbalance and heart problems which gradually worsens until the victim becomes totally incapacitated. At present, there is no known cure in this world for this disorder. SAMAG was founded by Chandu...
Dhriiti – The Courage Within: Promoting Micro Enterprises
Ajay Das comes from a poor family in Patla village. The family of six was dependent solely on agriculture. Apart from paddy, they also cultivated vegetables and Assam lemon, earning around Rs.1500 a month, which was barely sufficient. What does Ajay do now? He is an entrepreneur, producing arecanut leaf plates. Initially shy and slow, over a period of time he gained confidence when he saw the money...
Neonatal Care in India: Raising a generation by raising awareness
Every seven minutes, a woman in India dies due to pregnancy-related complications. Over a million babies born in the country die within their first month of life. India has the unfortunate distinction of claiming more than a quarter of the total newborn deaths in the world. The majority of these deaths occur in rural areas where poverty and lack of knowledge about proper maternal and child health care...
Podcast: Praseeda Kunam, Woman Entrepreneur
We are happy to announce our partnership with Beyond Profit – A New Social Enterprise Magazine. Their mission is to bring you the most interesting and unique stories, people and ideas from the social enterprise sector. We believe this is similar to our objective and hence it made sense to join hands! The following is the first post (podcast infact ) as part of this partnership: At Beyond Profit,...
Mitra Jyothi – Changing the lives of visually impaired
In our busy lives where our abilities are taken for granted, we forget that living along with us are challenged people who have special needs. Who could better understand the needs of the visually challenged than someone who has suffered it herself? Madhu Singhal is visually impaired by birth. Born into an upper middle class family in Haryana, Madhu had the affluence to lead a comfortable life. But...
Comics for a Cause
We have all read comics when we were young. Many of us continue to read them due to their fascinating nature of conveying stories very easily. But comics need not necessarily confine to the comedy genre. Can they be used to communicate an issue, a cause or a fact? World Comics India, led by Sharad Sharma, is doing exactly that – using the power of comics to bring about a social change! World...
MESH – Maximising Employment to Serve the Handicapped
Mrs. Savitri of Sangli Mrs. Savitri is a weaver at the Physically Handicapped Training and Rehabilitation Centre in Sangli, Maharashtra suffers from leprosy but is learning to make scarves using wool for the first time. Mr. Anbazhgan is a disabled wood-cutter, part of The Helen Keller wood carving group in Kalakurchi in Tamil Nadu, who is learning about the problems he could face with the use of an...
BookBole – Solutions for the Visually Impaired
We read, we learn, we understand. Sites like the one you are currently reading, along with countless other blogs, books, newspapers make up our reading spectrum. Make us aware, make us improve. But what if we were to be visually impaired? How would we fare with a total lack of reading material? Did you know that most of the material available so easily to us is just not accessible for the visually...
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