4th EdelGive Social Innovation Honours 2012

Reporter: Kanika Kakkar

The 4th EdelGive Social Innovation Honours 2012 is a national awards programme instituted by the EdelGive Foundation, to reward innovative work in the social sector in India. 

The objective for the EdelGive Social Innovation Honours is to identify and reward organizations that are innovating to empower women in India. 

In India there’s an urgent need for progress which makes EdelGive Social Innovation focus on funding and showcasing for innovative work that helps to empower women in five four different categories: Education, Health and Well-Being, Livelihoods and Rights and Representation. 

EdelGive Foundation is an initiative of Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd., one of India’s leading financial services firms. It provides strategic direction to the philanthropic activities of Edelweiss, its employees, clients and associates. 

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Kushal Cook Stove

90% of the rural and 38% of the urban population in Madhya Pradesh cook with firewood using inefficient cook stoves. It indicates that large numbers of households are dependent on traditional three stone stoves or mud stove. This has led to brutal deforestation in the region and negative health impacts due to indoor air pollution caused by the smoke.

Therefore, it was felt that energy intrusion needed to be incorporated with development actions. This led to development of a cook stove which can give social and environmental benefits. The design of the improved cook stove Kushal was developed with active participation, inputs and suggestion from users. 

Kushal cook stove has a robust, maintenance free design made of durable materials to make sure longer performance.  Its efficient design ensures complete combustion of fuel and cleaner fire therefore uses considerably less fuel as compare to traditional stoves. This means speedy cooking, time and fuel savings, cleaner pans, kitchen walls and indoor atmosphere. 

The only school in village Samnapur (Jabalpur) is primary government school. Under the mid day meal programme school provides lunch to every student prepared by village’s women self helper group (SHG). Following the installation Kushal stove in early 2010, the school realized a noteworthy range of benefits. According to the SHG, it is now saving a lot of wood which translates to reduced school expenditure on fuel wood and the quality of the food has improved with meals being served on time. 

The Kushal stove have transformed the kitchen environment and the cooks now enjoy better working conditions.

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Twenty19

The motto of Twenty19 is built on - "Listen to students, understand them, give them what they need”. The name Twenty19 symbolizes the vibrant and passionate tribe of college students in their late teens & early twenties.

Twenty19 believes that the real learning for a student lies beyond the four walls of a classroom. Students can gain meaningful knowledge and skills only when they take initiatives and get hands on experience in the real world. This platform enables students to equip themselves in the best possible way to live their dream career.

Twenty19 spent their initial days hanging around in the college canteens and corridors interacting with students to understand them and their needs. Twenty19 team adds that they exist to make real impact on real people, everyday. For them the inspiration to continuously do good come from witnessing the students benefit from twenty19. The potential to bring about a real change drives them! 

Twenty19 big vision is to enable every student to be in a position to choose and pursue their dream career.

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Technospot.IN

Technospot.IN, a brain child of Ashish and Manav, is a web portal which strives to help Indians locating resources which can be helpful in their daily life by finding exclusive, untold and unfolded insights of India. 

Technospot vision is to bring forward unknown yet resourceful informative sites, start-ups, thoughts and discussions to make people more aware of India and Indian bases. It aims to help people to find, learn and use information scattered around and make them more productive.

The site first started to let people know about the beautiful Mughal city Agra has widen its horizon and now caters to several Indian genres, Indian Culture, Indian Start-ups, Indian Tech, etc.

Technospot.net, their sister site, helps user to understand computer, internet and mobile in a better, safe and productive manner. 

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Leaders For Tomorrow

Leaders for Tomorrow Foundation is a NOT FOR PROFIT youth based NGO aimed at awakening the social consciousness of youth by encouraging them in volunteerism and personality development. It’s a platform for youths to exchange ideas for social change and an opportunity for putting these ideas into action. They aim at sensitizing the youth with many relevant programmes and empower the millions of youth to be the AGENTS OF CHANGE. 

Leaders for Tomorrow is a youth movement that started from a small initiative by the founder, Mr. Binoy Job, Director for Media and Communications to the Prime Minister of India. 

Their soul motto is to develop change makers and channelize the great potential of the youth towards Nation Building. They provide opportunistic platform where youths can express their views, generate ideas, interact with senior leaders and achievers, educate themselves on issues of public importance, learn new skills, enhance personality and in the process ignite the LEADER IN YOU. They aim at grooming college students in leadership and social development. Thus, to make YOUTH the most important factor in nation building.

The base unit of ‘Leaders for Tomorrow’ is its branch in a college or an educational institution. This smallest unit is called the 'Leaders for Tomorrow Club.' The unit for every state or central university is called a 'Leaders for Tomorrow Chapter.' Their Annual programmes comprises of a Youth Leadership Summit, a Youth Festival for Social Development and a Youth Awakening Rally.

Leaders for Tomorrow has become a turning point for many young aspiring students, who have achieved laurels in Development Sector, Public Policy, Journalism, Management and Leadership. Today, Leaders for Tomorrow with more than 32,000 student members from universities and colleges in Delhi, has become the largest youth movement in Delhi/NCR. 

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Villgro

Behind every successful business venture is a dream, a dream to think big and powerful. Something similar happened when Paul Basil, a Mechanical engineer and Management Degree holder from the Indian Institute of Forest Management Bhopal, dreamt of improving the quality of lives of rural poor, empowering villagers with resources and putting a smile into every face in Rural India.

His dream led to the formation of Villgro in the year 2001 to transform lives in Rural India through innovations. Paul having worked at Kerala Horticulture knew exactly the importance of translating ideas into possible actions. 

Villgro with its unique and extremely well organized network of Investors, Technical Experts, Domain Specialists, Mentors and Marketers provides everything needed by an innovator, thus unleashing the best chance of an idea being getting implemented. 

Villgro commercializes rural innovation, thus creating a multitude of micro-enterprises, which in turn generates a veritable cycle of wealth creation on an unimaginable scale. Villgro have so far identified and activated close to 2000 social innovators and impacted more than 360,000 rural lives. 

Recognizing Paul Basil contributions to the field of social entrepreneurship, The Ashoka Foundation conferred him with its prestigious Ashoka Fellowship in the year 2002. 

 

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