http://www.thebetterindia.com Positive news. Happy Stories. Unsung Heroes. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:47:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.thebetterindia.com/1264/sankalp-2010-tbi-logo-contest/ 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 ... http://www.thebetterindia.com/1241/rang-de-smita-ram-interview-microcredit/ 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 ... http://www.thebetterindia.com/1217/blind-with-camera-images-from-a-world-that-is-not-seen/ 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 ... http://www.thebetterindia.com/1201/travel-another-india/ 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 ... http://www.thebetterindia.com/1185/rose-computer-academy/ 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 ... http://www.thebetterindia.com/1176/barefoot-journey-to-tilonia/ 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 ... http://www.thebetterindia.com/1161/udayan-care/ 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 ... http://www.thebetterindia.com/1153/seek-a-miracle-ataxia-group-samag/ 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 ... http://www.thebetterindia.com/1133/dhriiti-the-courage-within-promoting-micro-enterprises/ 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 ... http://www.thebetterindia.com/1107/neonatal-care-in-india-raising-a-generation-by-raising-awareness/