Yahoo! Employee Foundation (YEF) awarded a cash grant of $30,000 towards Sikshana project in 2010. This is the second year in a row that Vibha has been successful in getting a grant from YEF. Just last year in 2009, Sikshana received a grant of $40,000 from YEF. What’s the story behind this success year after…
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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…
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…
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…
The growth has been phenomenal…with fewer than 15 schools involved at the time of its inception 7 years ago, Sikshana has today reached out to 400 schools and over 35000 children. But the journey forward only looks more promising. Sikshana now aims to extend its reach to 100, 000 students in two years by initiating…
The year 1998: On a bright sunny October morning, 7 year old Kishore accompanies his parents to the Georgia Tech campus to participate in the very first 5K walk to support Vibha (then known as CRY). His friends Siri and Sheila are there with their parents too. They may not fully understand the significance of…
Back in my school days, I always looked forward to Friday afternoon. It was that time of the week dedicated for extra-curricular activities. Children from different classes would perform on stage in activities like singing, dancing, drama, debate and so on. We would have spent days together rehearsing our singing or practicing our dance steps.…
