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In Photos: Make A Difference (MAD) Has Been Making Some Noise In Chennai

Make a Difference is a youth-focused organization that is trying to bridge the gap in education and empowering young people to take on bold initiative. Its Chennai chapter has been making great strides with unique and far-reaching initiatives. Prama Neeraja takes a look, and a lot of photographs!

January 10, 2013 / No Comment / Read More

Step Up for Disaster Risk Reduction: Appreciate, Encourage and Empower the Female Voice

December 19, 2012 No Comment

The social role assigned to women as caregivers and nurturers naturally extend to disaster risk management, to secure life and the continuity of livelihoods, and to maintain the life support systems, in times of disasters. It would therefore be imprudent to understate the role women play in tackling emergency situations and in building resilience within [...]

Little Flower School: Giving Voice, Words and Dreams To Deaf Children

October 1, 2012 No Comment

The Little Flower School ensures holistic development of deaf children with an aim to integrate them into mainstream schools. In its 50th year, we meet the dedicated staff and learn what inspires them to carry forward the legacy of the wonderful institution.

Project Axshya – Creating Waves About Tuberculosis Via Community Radio

June 25, 2012 No Comment

It is four pm, and sounds from ‘Arogyavedi’, a programme in the local dialect wafts into Kunjamma’s home, from the radio set by the window. The show on Radio Mattoli, a community radio station, is not only informative, telling her about ailments and illnesses she wasn’t previously aware of, but is presented in the local [...]

The Power Of A Story – Rural Women In Sathyamangalam Empowered With Video Cameras

June 11, 2012 No Comment

Women in remote hamlets in Tamil Nadu are being empowered with training in the handling of a video camera and are now producing films to show the reality of their lives and to fight for their rights. Muthu is from Kadambur Village in Sathy, Tamil Nadu. As a girl child, she suffered neglect right from [...]

Protected: TBI Travel: 51 Off Beat Destinations in India – Part 4 (South)

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Share My Cake – Teaching Children to Celebrate with a Difference

February 7, 2012 1 Comment

Year after year, we celebrate our kids’ birthdays. Year after year, we are straddled with a whole lot of gifts which we do not know what to do with. Most of the times, these are things the kid has no use for. They just clutter the house, get distributed or gather dust in the attics. [...]

Saving The Planet, One Step At A Time

December 7, 2011 1 Comment

Arun Krishnamurthy is a busy man. He has, with help from his team and the eco-conservation foundations he works with, managed to cover 67 schools in three cities in just this one year. Three hundred and forty students have gotten involved in actively conserving the environment in various ways. Meanwhile, in Chennai, where Arun lives, [...]

A Student from Singapore has pledged to help people in rural India build toilets

November 29, 2011 5 Comments

When Peixin Li took up an internship in Bangalore, as part of her Social Science and Communication course at National University of Singapore, little did she know that she would, in some way, champion the cause of clean sanitation in a remote village in South India. But the 22-year-old’s experiences while traveling here and her [...]

Meet Bal Pandian: The Bird Man of Koonthakulam

July 21, 2011 No Comment

“About 3,000 birds nest here in the peak season,” pointed out Bal Pandian as I panned my camera along the graceful flight of a flock of landing pelicans. I was at the Koonthakulam Bird Sanctuary, with photographer and naturalist Balan Madhavan. Bal Pandian is an ordinary villager, but his extraordinary feats have made him a [...]