Cloth Bank

By: Bindu Doddahatti 

Cloth Bank is an organized and sustainable campaign raised to make your materials reach the victims immediately at the time of need. Every year millions of people suffer from disastrous phenomenon like flood, landslide, earth quake, heavy storms, large snowfall and other natural calamities and poverty as well, which throw out them from basic needs for living- cloth along with food and shelter wherein unclothing becomes a sensitive factor for widespread epidemics of diseases, snake-bite, and pneumonia on children, various health hazards and deaths.

 

Many efforts are laid down to fight against these deficiencies at small and large level by various organizations. Many relief campaigns are launched. It takes a long time to start, run and end the relief campaign and distribute the materials to the affected ones. So, the concept of Cloth Bank has been raised as a sustainable initiative to work on the issue of clothing.

Cloth Bank is an organized, unregistered and sustainable campaign raised to make your materials reach the victims immediately at the time of need. It has no any negative impacts on environment. Healthy (unaffected by diseases) clothes from pants to caps, sweaters, jackets, shirts, t-shirts, and other types will be collected at the bank.

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Volunteers for the Blind Foundation (VBF)

by Kimberley Fernandes

 

Volunteers for the Blind Foundation (VBF), a Delhi based organization functioning nationally for the Rehabilitation of the Blind was founded in the year 2000. VBF works with NGO’s & Visually Challenged individuals, while networking with the latter offering support and assistance on a national basis. 

Their vision is to improve the quality of life for the Visually-Challenged with a strong mission to assist Blind persons & organizations supporting them, to promote an understanding of their needs & to enable the availability of better quality of services nationally & internationally.

Their activities vary between Projects & Programmes like Sports, Placements, Ablympics, General Awareness and Networking. The Studies and Training involved are Methodologies in Technology, Volunteer Orientation, Technical Guidance, among many others. The services provided by VBF are for both - volunteers and NGO's.

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KALPAVRISHK

 by Soubhik Chakrabarti

KALPAVRIKSH is a non profit organisation working on environmental and social issues. The group began in 1979 with a campaign led by students to save Delhi's Ridge Forest. They work on local, national and global levels and are based in Delhi and Pune. Kalpavriksh believes that a country can develop meaningfully only when ecological sustainability and social equity are guaranteed, and a sense of respect for, and oneness with nature and fellow humans is achieved.

Throughout the years, KALPAVRISHK has led many awareness campaigns, and done research on environment development issues. KALPAVRISHK has taken many strong positions on environmental issues and have even resorted to street demonstrations and protest letters as a means of highlighting those issues. 

KALPAVRISHK did detailed studies of the impacts due to the building of the Narmada projects as well as carried out investigations into the police firing that happened in Bharatpur bird reserve.  With its strong stands on many important environmental issues, the NGO has ensured that environmental concerns are echoed and steps taken to protect the environment. 

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MEMINI

by Alam Bains

“MEMINI”, founded by Norwegian music producer and activist Deeyah, is an online site for remembering the victims of honour killings. The UN conservatively estimates that 5,000 women and girls are killed each year globally by members of their own family in the name of "honour". 

Deeyah feels that the perpetrators of these honour motivated crimes want all signs of the lives of these young women to be completely wiped out. Memini wishes to ensure that the stories of victims of honor killings are told, thus defying the intent of those who wanted to erase them. This documentation of stories has a deeper purpose – to bring to light the many women and girls who are victims of this brutality in order to tell the world – it is happening and it has to stop. 

MEMINI is an ongoing project and continues to add content as it is gathered. It is an entirely volunteer driven initiative where wonderful individuals are helping by donating their time to help support this online place of remembrance.

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MAM MOVIES

by Kanika Kakkar

MAM: ‘I AM’ is what it means in Sanskrit. It’s an open source network of voluntary independent filmmakers who use media, the arts and technology to inform, inspire and empower others to create positive action in the world.

They believe inner transformation leads to outer change and to express it through stories they have been doing with several experiments like either moved by love, seva journals, lok darhsan, etc. Currently the team and volunteers of MAM Movies organize film screenings in public spaces and create awareness on various social causes. 

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PUNYA’11

PUNYA’11, an initiative by NGO TAMMANA spreads the age old Indian message of giving i.e. “the DAAN”.  In their own words it ought’s to bridge the gap between the seeker & the feeder. So this winter gear up for the social drive to help the needy.

TAMMANA promises to make PUNYA’11 bigger and more productive then its earlier two versions. PUNYA is an effort to make an everlasting impact in lives of who are less fortunate.

PUNYA’11 is a 12 hour Truck Rally on the Christmas Day from 9am to 9pm covering Chandigarh, Mohali and Panchkula’s roadside vendors, construction sites, rickshaws stands and slums. Volunteers and members will donate clothes, toys, footwear, dry ration and household items.

For queries call at their helpline numbers: 9872466690; 9888932071; 9646702889

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Write for the Blind

Write for the Blind are working to make it a little easy for the blind students during examinations by arranging writers for them.  God didn't give few people the sense of sight! But he has given it to us, be thankful and help the needy.

God will bless you :) 

Write for the Blind is an initiative by Alexis, an International Not-for-Profit & Non-Political Organization with Passion for Excellence.

Interested people may write to Write for the Blind at: writer4blind@gmail.com with details.

If you want to join the team send them your resume with passport size photograph.

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Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya

With Inputs: Ira Swasti

The Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya (KSV), located in Kalkeri, Dharwad district, Karnataka, provides a musical and academic education to one hundred and sixty children. In addition, food, accommodation, health care and clothing are also provided, and everything is free. There are no fees at all. 

Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya empowers, supports and encourages children from socially marginalized and economically disadvantaged backgrounds to realize their full potential and attain a better life. This is done through an intensive and comprehensive educational program of academics and music which is undertaken in a peaceful rural residential setting.

Through their achievements at KSV the students will be in a position to attain more meaningful livelihoods, thus breaking the cycle of persistent poverty and creating a better future for themselves and their communities. Through their music the children will contribute towards the conservation and diffusion of India’s vast musical heritage. Currently at KSV there are 14 students who are studying higher education courses. 

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Voice of Indian Women

With Inputs: Soubhik Chakrabarti

This website as the name suggests aims at bringing out the real voice of women of India. This is not just a question of security outside the house but also inside the house. Women are battered on a regular basis in the very confines of their houses. Every revolution needs a voice; this website is the voice of revolution. The collective voice of women will perhaps make a difference and make our world a better place.

The site basically draws on the position of women in the twenty first century. It seeks an insight at the way women are being treated in our society. It deals with the sexual double standards and seeks to bring the voice of women together. An active participation, debates and discussions related to current affairs will be helpful in order to take things to the next level.

The website blog, started by Trisha, also has articles written by her which showcases the various myths and actualities that exist around the world and how women are discriminated against. 

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Craft Exhibition by Special Children

A craft cum sale exhibition is being organized at Sankalp Day Care Centre where special children will be exhibiting handmade craft products like designer diyas, wall hangings, carry bags, gift envelops, bracelets, anklets, pillow covers etc. It is an opportunity to appreciate the potential of these special children which unveils with a little support from us along with an unmatched spirit to create inspite of their limitations.
They love to make friends. :)

Date: 14 October 

Timing: 12:00 - 17:00

Venue: Sankalp Day Care Centre, Mc Robert Hospital, Civil Lines, Kanpur

For more information, contact
Dr Ashish Mishra - 9935030509
Dr Deepti Mishra - 9935130509

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Educate to Empower

Education is going to play a big and deciding role in development of any economy in the current information and knowledge age. E2E is a group of motivated and enthusiastic youngsters who have come together to work on a common objective of sustainable and meaningful development of this country. They have started with an important aspect – education, which plays the most important role in the development of any nation. Their main aim is to provide solutions and services to schools at primary, secondary and higher secondary levels. The service is also available for the entrepreneurs or community who want to build a school from scratch. 

Their vision is to create an effective education system that improves on the existing system and provides better opportunities to the young citizens of this country. Through their initiative, they want to create schools which will be structurally based on the existing education system of India but conceptually different in the sense that the stress would be on learning rather than just scoring.

They are working to provide effective education at an affordable price for the masses, create a large number of skilled people who can work in the current knowledge society, empower the students with knowledge, value system and technology so that they are capable enough to solve the problems existing in the society and can lead it towards sustainable growth, develop centres which will train the teachers to deliver effective education and also do continuous research to find out and work on the shortcomings of the existing education system, etc. 

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Piramal School of Leadership

Correspondent: Ira Swasti

The Piramal School of Leadership is a first-of-its-kind school for principals of public schools in India – yes, you read that right -- a school for principals. The founder Mr. Aditya Natraj is passionate about education and believes that good leadership goes a long way in bringing about any change in society.  Thus, the Piramal School of Leadership endeavors to empower school principals with essential leadership skills, motivation and training to help run their schools better—without charge.

The curriculum entails a three-way learning process using workshops, on-site coaching and self-learning material. One of the principals from the program tearfully said to Natraj, one day: “For the first time in 25 years, my students asked me to stay back in class and not go.”  That feeling for a teacher is indescribable in words.

PSL a three-year program launched in 2008 and has had three batches since – one in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, another in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and the latest in Chandrapur, Maharashtra.  The idea was to understand the education system and teaching environment of a rural, urban and tribal region and formulate a universal model for principal training programs that could incorporated in universities across India. The ultimate goal of the initiative after all, is to ensure every child in India goes to school.

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Literacy India

Reporter: Kanika Kakkar

Literacy India, a non-profit organization was set up in 1996 with the objective of empowering underprivileged children and women by making them self-sufficient. Literacy India has clearly set the three E’s as its goal on a process of achieving in next decade i.e., Education, Empowerment and Employment. They endeavor to bridge this gap by imparting quality education and teaching students a variety of vocational skills in performing arts, computer animation, science, technology and vocation etc. 

Literacy India is focused on bringing about a Qualitative change in the lives of underprivileged children by giving a different meaning to education. We are looking at transforming the education landscape by introducing innovative methods of education to give children a wider canvas of exposure in a socio-cultural environment.

Keeping in view the rising problems of population and unemployment, the root cause for which is illiteracy and ignorance, Literacy India has taken on the task of creating awareness on the importance of education for under privileged children and youth.

Literacy India is doing pioneering work experimenting with a totally new educational model. This has been developed from a vision that underprivileged children should be provided an opportunity and a platform to equip them with basic education and also to nurture and develop their latent talents and skills in order to realize their maximum potential.

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