Author: Sara Adhikari
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Medical crowdfunding comes to aid of aspiring doctor
PRADIP PATIL thought he could alleviate the suffering of poor communities who get crippled by costs of health and hospitalisation by becoming a doctor. Instead, the farmer’s son is now a patient needing monetary help for a bone marrow transplant – a curative treatment for his cancer – and has resorted to medical crowdfunding. Two…
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Christmas gift idea for children in shelter homes
IN the holiday season, as people turn their thoughts to spending time with family, friends and giving each other presents as tokens of love, for children in orphanages it means little. But an NGO that looks after the welfare of over 3,500 children in India’s institutional care homes across the country, has a Christmas gift…
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‘Age and productivity are not mutually exclusive’
WHAT started as a magazine in 1995 for senior citizens called Dignity Dialogue evolved into Dignity Foundation a few years later. The organisation responds to the felt needs of senior citizens by helping them lead active lives through various productive ageing and social support services for elder care. Raised in an environment of selfless service…
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10 mental fitness tips while the pandemic rages
MENTAL health in India needs serious attention according to the World Health Organisation – and alarmingly it is the youth that seem to be the worst hit. A 2018 Lancet report claims that suicide is the leading cause of death in the 15-39 age group in India. With a raging pandemic creating fear and despair, it…
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10 top fundraisers to donate to for COVID relief in India
ALL hearts are bleeding for India, as the unrelenting tragic news of the toll the ferocious second wave of Coronavirus is having on the country. Millions are battling every day for oxygen and treatment at hospitals. Thousands of families are losing loved ones and friends. Poverty has spiralled and families are facing extreme hunger. And…
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5 NGOs working for climate change in India
IF you have ever wondered what is causing the summers to be too hot or why the winters have become colder. Or why are cyclones and tornadoes appearing so frequently and the ice in the North Pole melting, the answer is climate change. In acknowledgement to this, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in an…
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Top 5 NGOs working to conserve India’s water bodies
INDIA is gifted with astonishingly beautiful and distinctive lakes. Not only do these lakes act as water reservoirs, but they also play an important role in maintaining the ecological balance. Sadly, many of these water bodies have either dried up, been filled up for development or are heavily polluted. Natural water bodies such as lakes…
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Has charitable giving in India changed due to COVID-19?
Give survey reveals a heightened desire to give back to society AS India and the world continue to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone has a role to play – government at all levels, civil society, philanthropies, multinational organisations, the private sector and, most importantly, us – individuals. In this context, we undertook a survey targeted…
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5 things you didn’t know about Give’s new President
Ashok Kumar E R learned early to ‘pay it forward’ It’s not everyday that a nonprofit gains a successful, high-profile financial wizard at its helm. So at Give, we are chuffed about our new President Ashok Kumar E R. Ashok comes with a strong track record of building high growth businesses, having held various leadership…
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Abandoned children are collateral damage of Covid-19
Why has there been an increase of newborns dumped on the roadside? ABANDONED children are the invisible collateral damage of the pandemic sweeping the world. And the most heart-rending examples are the babies born to parents who haven’t got the means to care for them. Our NGO partner Snehalaya has reported a 20% increase in…
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Mobile Medical Units to screen people for Covid-19 can limit spread
Strategy has helped Mumbai’s Dharavi flatten the curve AGGRESSIVE screening for Covid-19 symptoms in those living in overcrowded areas is a strategy that has already proved successful in containing the spread of coronavirus. Mumbai’s civic body has been lauded for following this and other measures to dramatically reduce the number of daily cases in Dharavi,…
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Your online donations have made a huge impact
Give’s India Covid Response Fund has helped 28 lakh Indians HERE is the latest impact report of our India Covid Response Fund – under which lie our six Covid-related missions. It tells you how many fellow citizens we have been able to help with the ₹76.38 crores of disbursements made so far to 170 of…
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Covid-relief impact made by donations to Give
21 lakh Indians have been supported by 130+ NGO partners across India THE staggering distress caused by coronavirus in India is unfolding on a continuous basis. From the start, we have been supporting our NGO partners providing Covid-relief and trying to ease the suffering of families caught in the eye of the pandemic storm –…
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Happy birthday Give!
TWENTY-ONE years of existence is an important birthday milestone, marking the transition into adulthood. For us at Give, the last year has been one of growing up real fast in the face of the pandemic – and what that has meant for us as an organisation. But yes, earlier this year, we had started planning…
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Update on Mission “Support Families”
In response to urgent needs of cash-strapped families on the ground, on March 22, 2020, we launched the “Support COVID-19 hit families” mission to provide direct-benefit-transfer as financial assistance to daily wagers and migrant labourers who had lost their jobs due to the COVID lockdown. Thanks to the generous support of over 7900 donors, we…
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Our COVID-19 Missions are Not Impossible
NOT since the Second World War has the global population faced an emergency on the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are all at war with a new virus, a common enemy which has already killed more than 13,000 people – and the toll is rising rapidly. Governments, scientists, health workers, pharmaceutical companies and everyone…
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Do I Feel Like the Equal Half?
WHILE we at Give were in the process of making this film to mark International Women’s Day and listening to what women from all walks of life had to say about what equality means to them – I too asked myself the same question. Women make up half the world’s population, but do we feel…