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By : Kanika Kakkar

SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions), which means creation in Sanskrit, was born in 1993 as a result of the felt need for an institutional support to the activities of the Honey Bee Network. Honey Bee signifies a philosophy of discourses, which is fair, authentic and accountable. It advocates people to people learning. 

Sristi vision is to create a framework for creating an inventive ethic at grassroots level and forging links between excellence in formal and informal Science through Honey Bee Network.

SRISTI was set up to provide organizational, intellectual and logistics support to the Honey Bee Network. The primary objectives while setting up the organization were: systematically documenting, disseminating and developing grassroots green innovations, providing intellectual property rights protection to grassroots innovators, working on the in situ and ex situ conservation of local biodiversity, and providing venture support to grassroots innovators.

SRISTI manages the Honey Bee database of innovations, and supports the publication of the Network's newsletter in three languages, English, Hindi and Gujarati. 

Lately SRISTI has being focusing on more concerted ways of hitherto neglected domains like women's knowledge systems, value addition through a natural product laboratory, using ICT to establish knowledge network, connecting innovators, traditional knowledge holders with the centres of formal excellence, entrepreneurs etc and innovations in education. 

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Search Years : Igniting Young Minds

By: Kanika Kakkar

Search Years vision is to create a positive environment where children and young people can realize their full potential, take control of their lives and interact with the world around them. Its mission is to research, create, develop and employ such innovative mediums and tools that make the process of learning inspiring, impaction and above all, full of wonderment and fun for our partners – children.

Search Years partners with young minds through the stages when they begin to question and search for answers. They understand that development of a child should not only be on a physical and mental level, but spiritual, personal and social planes too, SY through education raises awareness about social issues and motivates young people to be the engines of change. Search Years partners with individuals, corporate and organizations to have them share their knowledge equity by placing highly qualified and motivated educators from the community in government schools to improve the quality of education in the under- served and challenging schools. 

Their volunteer educators from the community engage in active teaching of academic, environmental, cultural and art education by using creative tools, interactive mediums and play, thereby enhancing impact and wonder in the learning process.

SY works in government schools, to make education meaningful and fun, improve student enrollment and attendance and bring down school drop-out rate by adopting teaching methodologies that inspire a sense of discovery and transform learning into a joyous experience for children. They infuse quality in education through creative and innovative methods of delivering the content based on the syllabus drawn by the concerned boards of education.

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Ekjaa Campus Leader (ECL) : Stage 1

Ekjaa Campus Leader (ECL) has opened new avenue for students to contribute in the social development of India. The students at IIT-Mumbai have proactively taken the initiative under the Ekjaa Campus Leader's Aditi Jain & Suyash Dusad & accomplished Stage 1 of the program in which they choose the social cause of their passion, find the respective social organization and ; endeavor in Cause Related Marketing.  

Prior to the event students were given task to choose the social project of their choice. They had to research on NGOs, their social project impact and registrations like 80G/12AA/FCRA that got them acquainted with various NGOs and their projects. 

Ekjaa aims to target only one college per city in India.

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In this phase the youth is exposed to various dimensions of NPO & it’s working while selecting a genuine Social Project. Ekjaa aims to sensitize the youth about the ongoing in the development sector of India. ECL is successfully running in NSIT - Delhi & is on its way to conform the Corporate Social responsibility requirements of corporate through employee engagement in the welfare sector. 

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The Kutumb Foundation

By: Kimberley Fernandes

The Kutumb Foundation was initiated by a group of young people who felt that there is an increasing need to develop a sense of community among urban displaced people belonging to lower income groups through the spread of education and to provide them with greater employment opportunities as well as better conditions of employment.

They felt the need for greater transparency in the NGO sector and better management practices in its functioning, and such practices must be developed through research into their existing ways of functioning; and, the corporate sector could and ought to be involved in social works, especially in the area of welfare programs for children, as an investment in our future.

In a short period of time Kutumb has tried to provide a platform for young people from the non-privileged sections of society to engage in conversations and express themselves through creative forms as diverse as football, painting and theatre. Aiming to provide holistic development, their events are a celebration of the spirit, innocence and vitality of children.

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12th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit

with inputs:Debarati Rakshit

Delhi Sustainable Development Summit is an annual summit organized by TERI, a research and policy organization in India in the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals since 2001. The DSDS attracts worldwide thinkers and practitioners, coming from governments, business and industries, multilateral and bilateral organizations, research and academia and civil society.

The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit is an international undertaking that provides a platform for knowledge exchange and debate on all aspects of sustainable development. The theme of DSDS 2012 is Protecting the Global Commons: 20 years post Rio. The debates at this DSDS will revolve around the commons and take stock of the situation since the Rio summit of 1992.

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Toxics Link

Toxics Link is an environmental NGO dedicated to bring toxics related information into the public domain, both relating to struggles and problems at the grassroots as well as global information to the local levels is based in Delhi with a nodal office in Chennai with a wide network of more than 3000 members. 

Toxics Link engages in on-the ground work especially in areas of municipal, hazardous and medical waste management and food safety among others. Working in networks, utilising community outreach and education, policy analysis, research, training and program development, it works at the state and central levels to help create solutions, which are driven by the needs of people. 

Toxics Link has a unique expertise in the areas of hazardous, medical and municipal wastes, as well as in specific issues such as the international waste trade, and the emerging issues of pesticides and POPs. 

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