Americans often don’t have to worry about limited access to education. Every child, from age six to age sixteen, is required to spend eight hours learning subjects from basic math and reading to world history and computer science. While India has instituted a similar mandatory schooling law, the Right to Education Act, its protections do…
This past fall most residents of Morgantown, WV had never heard of Vibha. I was new in the town and was faced with the challenge of finding a medium to spread awareness about Vibha. It took a lot of brainstorming to come up with an idea of meaningfully contributing to Vibha, being away from any of Vibha’s…
Graduation parties are times to celebrate the efforts and achievements of students who have gone through a grueling educational journey and come out successful. Graduates usually get a bunch of presents helping them transition to a next level of their lives. Few forego these gifts and even fewer use their celebrations as a way to…
Recently, the Unnati Social Foundation has organized a campaign in Pune, India that strives to raise awareness for a Plastic Free Pune City among Punekars. The Unnati Social Foundation (www.unnatifindia.org) aims to implement sustainable, social change–specifically for the lives of women and underprivileged youth. Many of the social issues The Foundation works hard to solve…
Sikshana was founded in the year 2002, with a mission to evolve scalable and replicable models for an effective public school system. To achieve this goal, over the year, Sikshana developed a unique way for students’ motivation to drive improved learning outcomes and has been recognized for its efforts and insights by the Govt. of…
NGO Expo is an international event, organized with the aim to bring together World’s leading NGOs, NPOs, Charitable Trusts and Foundations. The recently-concluded Asia Edition of the event, was co-sponsored by Vibha. This two-day event, organized by CSR Live Week at the World Trade Center in Mumbai, brought together over 150 non-profit organizations, 300 corporate…
Alamb in Uttam Nagar, West Delhi, is one of the projects that Vibha supports in India. Alamb was established in 1992 with the main aim to help people, especially women and children of socio-economically weaker sections of the society, be aware of their rights to education, well-being and self-respect. Vibha has been funding Alamb’s girl…
Sri Tanmoy Roy Chowdhury, Superintendent of Police, inaugurated Prayash, on January 9th, 2014 as an initiative to mainstream the child laborers working in brick kiln and adult literacy centers in collaboration with Baduria police station. Mr. Chowdhury urged Swanirvar to open a school for children of migrant laborers since he was concerned about the increasing…
