Three year olds in Ganne, a village south of Allahabad eat dried mud and silica because they are hungry. Tribals in Madhya Pradesh are increasingly found on the doorsteps of hospitals and are being refused treatment because of their social and economic conditions. Even as you finish reading this sentence, 5 more people in the…
I have been a Vibha volunteer for close to two years now. I have always been overwhelmed with the volunteer response we get on event day. We might not see all our volunteers very often because of their conflicting schedules. But come event day and they magically show up, take up tasks and complete their…
Kick starting the 2010 Navratri season, Bay Area’s Dandia team pulled off a hat-trick with sold-out shows on Oct 2, 9 and 16. All the more amazing, given there were at least ten other Dandia events on these days. Here is what the volunteers had to say about the event. Hitesh Iyer & Ansy Mathews,…
Ever imagined what type of lives the fishermen community in India lead? Due to economic difficulties that fishermen and fisherwomen face, they send their children at an early age to earn a living. There have been difficult times like the tsumani that struck Tamil Nadu in December 2004 resulting in fishing opportunities being affected but…
When I entered the room for my first ever Vibha meeting, I was very nervous and excited. I honestly expected a bunch of serious looking people discussing Vibha plans in a corporate conference like fashion, but I was pleasantly surprised! All the people in the room had a smile on their face, cookies and snacks…
Can you imagine a world without computers? Even those of us, who were born before the advent of personal computing and the internet, cannot survive a single day without logging on to some site or the other. Well, you wouldn’t be reading this if it wasn’t for the Internet. As we all know IT can…
