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Nutrition Gardens And Seed Banks: Women Farmers Adapt To Climate Change

Innovative measures by women farmers across India are helping several poor families adapt better to climate change and keep hunger at bay. As Sursati from village Janakpur, district Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, explains, “Earlier, we could not produce enough food for a year because our village would get water-logged by the flood waters. Now, using [...]

March 16, 2012 / 1 Comment / Read More

ESIH 2011 Winners: Five NGOs working towards Women Empowerment

March 2, 2011 No Comment

A few months ago, we had invited entries for the Third EdelGive Social Innovation Honours 2011. EdelGive Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Edelweiss Capital Ltd. announced the winners last week! Following a stringent four stage evaluation process, 5 outstanding NGOs have been announced winners for their innovative work in the areas of Health and Well-Being, [...]

Kisan Call Center: Bridging the information gap

January 13, 2011 3 Comments

With the increase in choices of farm inputs, pesticides, herbicides, high yielding varieties of seeds, a farmer today requires guidance of expert agriculturists more than anything else. Some one with whom they can share their crop related issues and learn preventive measures. Kisan Call Center (KCC) is a pioneering initiative started in Madhya Pradesh by the [...]

Podcast: Praseeda Kunam, Woman Entrepreneur

December 25, 2009 No Comment

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 [...]

Khabar Lahariya – A Weekly Newspaper in Bundeli

August 20, 2009 23 Comments

Khabar Lahariya a weekly newspaper in Bundeli (local dialect of Bundelkhand) is being run by a group of women from various sections of the society from the interiors of Chitrakoot and Banda in Uttar Pradesh. Their main objective is to reach out to the nearby villages and provide them with ‘infotainment’. Despite having a limited [...]

Radio Bundelkhand – Giving Voice to the Voiceless

July 14, 2009 8 Comments

Azadpura is a village in Bundelkhand region. This area faces acute water scarcity and one problem that the women faced was a faulty well which required urgent repairing. The women aired this problem on Radio Bundelkhand and within four days the concerned authority replaced the missing wheel of the well. This is the power of [...]

Paper Saves Lives

May 25, 2009 15 Comments

Sahariya tribe is a nomadic tribe in Madhya Pradesh that deals with poverty of the magnitude that mothers buy saris and tear them in half so that their daughters have something to wear. These people have little money available for essentials, let alone luxuries like education. The women are typically very badly treated, often turning [...]

Progress in Rural Telephone Connectivity under Bharat Nirman

August 27, 2008 1 Comment

We often wonder what happen to government schemes which are released with huge fanfare and publicity, but somewhere along the way get discreetly swept into neglect, until no trace remains. While there are many schemes that can be cited in the above category, Bharat Nirman, a rural development program announced in 2005 by the Congress [...]