Volunteerism

Media For Change: Community Video Units

By Esha Vaish: The media is often found to be rampant with misrepresentation and skewed representation. While a Bollywood tadka-song features in primetime news, important issues of human rights violation find no voice in the slots and quirky blurbs on news channels. The brutality doesn’t

Society,Volunteerism

It Disgusts Me For Always Having Been A Part Of The Crowd, Time To Wake Up!

By Angana Prasad: Disgusting, literally means causing revulsion or strong disapproval of something, or simply something which makes us feel yucky… and our heart goes eeks…! I often run out of fingers when it comes to counting the number of things that make me say

Society,Volunteerism

The Art Of Giving: Mamata Charitable Foundation

By Mahalakshmi Ganapathy: Swami Parthasarathy while addressing the audience in Pune remarked ‘95% people in the world only take and take while only 5% in the world have learnt to give. Even out of this small minority of givers, it is only a miniscule amount

Specials,Volunteerism

Nileema Mishra: Winner of Magsaysay Award #Women Who Inspire

By MP Manohar: When Nileema Mishra won the Magsaysay Award (also hailed as the Asian Noble Prize, instituted in the memory of erstwhile President of Philippines, Ramon Magsaysay), this able lady known for some great pioneering work in the villages in Jalgaon and known in

Volunteerism

Snapdeal.com Nagar, The Inspirational Kunal Bahl Story

By Kartikaye Gilra: A privilege last earned by Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata (Tatanagar), and Gujarmal Modi (Modinagar) has been extended to snapdeal.com. A distant village in Uttar Pradesh is now known by the name of “Snapdeal.com Nagar” earlier known as Shiv Nagar. The tiny town had

Interviews,Volunteerism

Swechha – A Multifaceted NGO In Delhi #INTERVIEW

By Meghavarshini Krishnaswamy: Swechha, a NGO based in Delhi is a multifaceted organization working for environmental conservation, waste management, underprivileged children and volunteer placements. Each wing has its own role to play in spreading awareness about sustainable living and social service. Some of the environmental

The Opinionated,Volunteerism

5+ Innovative Ways To Give Or Raise Funds For Social Projects

By Anshul Tewari: This was originally posted at the Youth Action Center. While most of us try and self-fund our projects, and while that is the best bet for anyone, there does come a time when you are in need for external funding and help

Society,Volunteerism

Lend A Helping Hand: It Feels Good

By Arshia Chatterjee: As shallow as it may sound, I was never one for social service. Sure, I sympathised with people less fortunate than me, and I supported my parents when they decided to donate to charity, but I was never the kind of person

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