Wello : the centennial post

by Kanika Kakkar

Wello is a social venture with a bold mission: to effectively deliver clean water to a thirsty world. Wello has reinvented the wheel and developed an innovative business model that empowers individuals to use the Water Wheel as an income-generating tool to lift their families out of poverty.

By giving people easier access to potable water, the WaterWheel frees up valuable time, and in the process, removes barriers that prevent children from going to school and empowers women to engage in more productive activities. Research shows that when women have extra time, they choose to spend it on activities that boost family income, education, health, and wellbeing. Women with even a few years of education have smaller, healthier families, and are more likely to send their children to school. Female education is a key means of breaking the cycle of poverty.

The Water Wheel is an innovative leapfrog technology that will replace piped water infrastructure in the same way that cellular phones have replaced landlines. In the process, Wello creates jobs, improves health and increases access to education; it’s the girl effect in action!

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ASSCOD

ASSCOD is a voluntary organization working for social and economic development in the rural areas of Kancheepuram and Thiruvannamalai Districts in Tamil Nadu, India. The team is focused on working mainly with the grassroots need gap - women and families from the deprived sections of the society such as the lower castes, who are especially vulnerable to poverty, social injustice, illiteracy and poor health. 

 

Founded in 1994, ASSCOD started its operations with core concentration on the health issues of the poor people in Tamilnadu, India. The organization made greater impact after expanding its focus on promoting the social and economic development of the rural poor, especially through the empowerment of women, education and disaster management. ASSCOD identified the weak links in the development of an empowered society and robust economy. Since 2003, ASSCOD’s centered its approach around the concept of self-help groups: organizing women into small groups, encouraging micro-savings and credit, and imparting skills and awareness training to its beneficiaries. 

Furthermore, ASSCOD is committed to helping people in other ways as new opportunities and needs arise, and so in response to the Tsunami that devastated most of coastal regions Tamil Nadu in year 2004, ASSCOD collaborated with other development organizations in the regions to assist the disaster-hit individuals and families in a variety of ways. ASSCOD is also dedicated to working closely with smaller, local NGOs and supporting and promoting their efforts.

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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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Liberal Youth Forum

by Soubhik Chakrabarti

Liberal Youth Forum is a movement consisting of individuals from all walks of society who collaborate together to bring about a positive change in the cultural, economic, political and environment spheres with an intent to have a freer India. The LYF team of India consists of distinguished individuals from the fields of law to media.

The Liberal Youth Forum in India believes that the youth of the country are the harbingers of justice in the society. The youth are the ones who can initiate reforms and bring about a change in the society. The Liberal Youth forum through its workshops and activities wishes to make the youth of the country more aware of their rights and duties and also bring a more liberal approach to their thinking, by which they are able to tolerate and appreciate other’s views and opinions which might run contrary to their beliefs.  

Liberal Youth Forum helps the youth to speak up against injustice, right from the college level and even finding solutions to the many problems of political, social, economic and cultural rigidities that plague the society. LYF even hires interns and conducts seminars so if you are interested, you might even join as an intern in the various positions available.

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Muse India

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Started and run by a group of writers, Muse India is a literary e-journal with the primary objective of showcasing Indian writings in English and in English translation to a broad-based global readership. 

The journal publishes both creative and critical writing and offers a wide range of literary forms. Muse India is a bi-monthly journal available only on the web, and has no print version. It encourages readers, particularly the young, to give expression to their creative urges. 

Muse India provides open access to all its content to support greater global exchange of knowledge. 

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