Tag: Small Change NGO
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Taking Greenwash Route to Fix Plastic Crisis
By NIVEN REDDY —- THE issue with plastic is evident for everyone to see: it fills our streets and waterways and now we know that plastic particles have entered our food systems too. So how do we address this issue? How can we prevent our families from ingesting toxic plastic during every meal? Certainly not…
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You Can Make Others’ Wishes Come True!
GLOBAL giving trends show that hope and empathy inspire most donors to give – and the holidays, including the end-of-year festive season, motivate 61% of them. In Asia in particular, surveys have shown that religious giving is more diverse than any other region, with 32% of donors giving at Christmas, 25% at Eid al-Fitr, and…
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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…
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‘Our Grandparents Wouldn’t Use Toilets’
OUR Small Talk for this week is a tad different. We are celebrating ‘November For Kids’ at Small Change, focusing on children and highlighting issues they deal with. So this week, instead of talking to a leader in the development sector, we talk to three teenagers who are supported by Mountain Children’s Foundation (MCF) based…
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Football: Game Changer On And Off The Pitch
AISHWARYA and Yuvraj are among the first team members of Shining Stars Football Club, a not for profit programme of PASS Collective who work with girls and boys from marginalised urban communities of Bengaluru, Karnataka. With our focus on children and youth this month, here the teenagers tell us how football has helped them face challenges,…
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Dharavi boys join beach clean-up wave
SPARKED by one man, Afroz Shah, and joined by thousands, Mumbai’s Versova beach clean-up – the largest in the world – has turned into a movement that has inspired many. Amongst them are 22-year-old Saif Ansari and Adnan Khan, 20, from Dharavi, Asia’s biggest slum – and the most densely populated. While still in their…