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Slum Soccer – Creating Priceless Identities For Young Slum Dwellers

From as far back as we can remember, sports has been used as a means to bridge the gap between nations and between people or communities divided by religion, caste, history, etc. A unique initiative is using sport to bridge the gap between people divided by economic barriers in India. Meet Slum Soccer and see how they are bringing about a change!

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Going to School – The Power of Stories In Creating Entrepreneurs

October 15, 2012 No Comment

Going to School reaches out to the most underprivileged children with a high dropout rate and encourages them to follow the path of entrepreneurship. What’s more, this is achieved through the medium of telling inspiring true-life stories and by imparting business skills ranging from relationship-building to making cash flow statements.

TBI Heroes: Jyotsna Sitling – A Green Warrior

August 22, 2012 No Comment

Jyotsna Sitling – India’s first female tribal IFS officer is a force to reckon with. She changed the outlook of the Valley of Flowers and undertook several initiatives to ensure sustenance of environmental efforts

Priyadarshini Taxi Service: An all-women fleet of cabbies on Mumbai’s roads

April 13, 2012 1 Comment

Pink clad women – the wildest of our imaginations wouldn’t come up with the thought that they are taxi drivers. But that’s Priyadarshini Taxi Service for you – An all women fleet of cabbies taking on the roads of Mumbai – a completely male dominated space and notably, against the common notion that women are [...]

UnLtd India – Providing Crucial Incubation Support to Social Enterprises

January 25, 2012 No Comment

Many of us have let the voices of our calling die out. The reasons could be many – we wouldn’t know where to start, how to go about, where the money would come from or simply we wouldn’t know if we can pull it off. And it becomes more than a personal loss when someone [...]

The School for Perfect Eye-sight in Pondicherry

July 1, 2011 14 Comments

Two pieces of lenses, held together and perched upon our nose bridge, stretching and tucking their legs to the back of our ears – an inconvenience we’ve got so convenient with. When someone questioned this inconvenience, we came up with another one – made the lenses sit right inside our eyes! And also came up with those nerve burning [...]

A toy in the hands of every child – Toybank

August 10, 2010 1 Comment

In most of our homes, in some corner, packed inside cardboard boxes, we have toys that lay unused and useless. Have you thought that they could bring joy to the life of children who never had toys to play with? Take them out of those boxes, wrap them up and send across to Toybank – [...]

Where the earth meets the sky – Timbaktu Collective

June 29, 2010 8 Comments

This is the story of a land that was at one time lying ravaged, drought stricken and forsaken. It was a committed revolution led by a couple, Bablu Ganguly and Mary Vattamattam, which has now transformed this land into an agro forest habitat. The unproductive soil was rejuvenated, rain water was harvested, trees were planted, [...]

Mirakle Couriers: Career Haven for the Deaf

April 7, 2010 15 Comments

We hear a lot about corporate social responsibility where companies contribute to the welfare of the society. But here is an organization where social responsibility is not just a residue of its profits, but the core purpose that guides its existence. Mirakle Couriers was born with a business idea that will support the livelihood of [...]

Blind With Camera: Images from a world that is not seen

February 17, 2010 15 Comments

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 [...]