Category: Happy to Report
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Saathi Re, an information and insights platform for nonprofits in India, is now part of Give
Give exists to alleviate poverty by harnessing the power of collective giving. Our mission is to bridge the gap between the people who want to make a difference through giving back and those who are doing phenomenal work but need more support. In order to make giving bigger and better, solving for trust, choice, and…
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Animal Response To A Bushfire Is Astounding
HAVE you ever wondered how wildlife manage to stay alive when an inferno is ripping through their homes, and afterwards when there is little to eat and nowhere to hide? The answer is adaptation and old-fashioned ingenuity. Australia’s bushfire season is far from over, and the cost to wildlife has been epic. A sobering estimate…
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2019 Saw Happy Outcomes Of Conservation Efforts
LAST year on March 21st, a group of volunteers engaged in the Versova beach clean up in Mumbai stumbled upon at least 80 olive ridley sea turtle hatchlings for the first time in 20 years! Many attributed this comeback to the sustained efforts of lawyer-activist Afroz Shah. Versova had been known as one of the…
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Mumbai Takes Steps To Clear The Air
COUGH, cough, cough. Achoo. Those were the sounds on my flight back from celebrating Diwali in Delhi. The air quality was so poor, it was just a film of haze over the city as we took off. While many of us are generally aware of the worsening outdoor air quality during Diwali, crop burning, and…
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New Schools Of Thought On Climate Crisis
CLIMATE change became a talking point nearly 30 years ago. So why are we still arguing whether it’s real or not? The evidence is pretty irrefutable, see NASA’s temperature graph below. Yet, people still seem to think this is a political talking point that they can choose not to acknowledge as an emergency, calling it one…
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Odisha: The Balm Before The Storm
WHEN the extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani hit coastal Odisha on May 3 – with a wind speed of more than 200km per hour and gusting speed of 240km per hour – it was a déjà vu moment for the state and its people. But, with a critical difference. On October 29, 1999, when the…
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The Rise Of The Ethical Indian Consumer
HAVE you heard of ethically sourced, fair trade products? Conflict free diamonds? Or cruelty free makeup? Consumers have been using boycotts and flexing their purchase power for years to achieve change and force political transformation. Behind this seemingly modern movement of ethical consumption lies India’s forward-thinking Bapu who touted the ideals of homespun clothing and…
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Develop The Reading Habit, Develop The Nation
“A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” – Neil Gaiman EDUCATION is arguably one of the most important things you can give a child – it not only benefits them and can change the trajectory of one’s life, but it also promotes socio-economic development within societies. Which is why the UN…
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India Is Now A Plastic Warrior
PLASTIC. Designed to be an inexpensive, durable alternative to other materials, such as pewter, glass or ceramics that dent or break. No one anticipated the ramifications of a synthetic material that could seemingly last forever, would actually last forever. As scientists innovated the composition and society found more and more uses for the material, its…
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King of Kindness
NOVEMBER 20th was Universal Children’s Day, a day set aside by the United Nations to promote the welfare of children globally, established with the adoption of the transformative doctrine on childhood rights, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959. India celebrated the day together with the rest of the world until Nehru’s…