Empowering the Underprivileged
Vienthanpatty is a small village, 20kms away from Tirupptur town in Pudukottai district. When one enters the narrow village street…
How it all began at Annai Charitable Trust
“I think it is in my blood to teach.” This epitomizes the life mission of Mr. Joseph, a civil engineer…
Educating first-generation girls
“Meri maa ka shikshan nahin huan. Mere ghar mein koi nahin sikha hai. Meri badi behen aur mera bhai, unko…
Education is a Child’s Best Friend
Manisha, a Grade 8 student, wants to be a teacher. She has two brothers who go to the same school….
How it all began at Nehru Vikas Manav Samiti
“Education was only a rich man’s cup of tea during my childhood,” says Yogesh Kumar Sharma, the founder of Nehru…
Empowering the minds of these slum kids
A big two-storied building. All that one could hear while standing on the stairs were rustling of the leaves from…
How it all began at Empowering Minds Society for Research and Development
A clinical psychologist from Delhi University (DU) by profession, Richa Mohan, the founder of Empowering Minds for Research and Development,…
A mobile library that inculcates the habit of reading in young children
If you’re a bookworm as I am, then you would just love Vidya Bhawan Society’s (VBS) mobile library. Such a…
This NGO treats slum dwellers in Indore for just Rs. 5
On a Monday morning, I paid a visit to Pahal Jan Sahyog Vikas Sansthan’s medical center in Khajrana, located just…
How it began at Pahal Jan Sahyog Vikas Sansthan
“Never doubt that a group of ordinary people can bring about change. Infact, that’s the only thing that ever has.”…
This is a school where panthers visit…occasionally
It was a burning hot October morning, when I decided to visit Seva Mandir’s education-related projects. After driving over an…
Rainwater harvesting tanks, toilets and sponsorship of school supplies, this NGO is taking small steps to give barren Rajasthan some life!
When an open-air Mahindra jeep pulled up to pick me up for my visit to Gram Chetna Kendra (GCK), I…
How it began at Annamrita – ISKCON Food Relief Foundation
The ISKCON Food Relief Foundation prepares 12 lac meals every day. That’s quite a feat. But this is not one…
Educating children from poor and slum areas for their entry into formal schools
I was welcomed to IDF by Jyoti Singh, the organisation’s secretary; who also took me pillion on his scooter out…
How it began at Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti (GRAVIS)
Gramin Vikas Vigyan Samiti (GRAVIS) was founded in 1983 by the husband-wife team of Laxmi Chand and Shashi Tyagi. The…
Giving children on construction sites a childhood to remember
Mumbai is the perennial city of dreams, the city of Bollywood, a city where one and all enter with a…
Easing Rural Kids into Education
Children have a pureness that no religion or economic status can tarnish. This is something I encountered at close quarters…
Fighting rural poverty in Andhra Pradesh
If you’re reading this, I am assuming you are prosperous enough to have a toilet in your home. Millions of…
A school that does not believe in rote learning or the concepts of “pass” and “fail” in exams
What is common among Pranitha Vardhineni (coach, Sports Authority of India; also represented India at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in…
Delhi’s Largest NGO
“Be content with what you have but be discontented when it comes to the service of others.” – T.K. Mathew…
How it all began at Deepalaya
The seeds for the establishment of Deepalaya were undoubtedly sown while one of its’ main founders, Mr. Mathew, was still…
This senior secondary school helped prevent dropouts in Kaintain (UP)
Towards the last stretch of our 1.5 hr drive from Lucknow to Kaintain, Sitapur District, where Milaan’s “Swarachna Learning and…
How it began at Milaan Be The Change
In 2006, Dhirendra Pratap Singh completed his Bachelors in Mathematics (Hons) from the University of Delhi, fairly certain that taking…
A school for children of the Baiga tribe in Chhattisgarh
Driving down to Samerth’s Balmitra in rural, or rather, tribal, Chhatisgarh, all kinds of thoughts plagued my mind. Would the…
An organisation makes a child school ready
“A child without education is like a bird without wings.” After my interaction with Dr. Usha Pillai, founder of IDEA…