“Heads or Tails” is a new section of Vibhascope where we aim to get volunteers to present arguments about two sides of a topic. The idea is to generate a healthy debate about issues which NGO’s normally face on the road to achieving their goals. We hope to bring out new ideas and give better…
I spoke at length with Mr. E. S. Ramamurthy, founder of Sikshana about his thoughts on Right to Education Act. We looked at the first part of this interview in an article published last month. For those of you who didn’t catch it earlier, it’s available at http://vibhablog.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/interview-with-mr-ramamurthy-founder-of-sikshana-on-right-to-education-act/ Let’s continue on this note to catch…
We are excited we will be reaching 5,000 children with this $40K grant. The win reinforces our confidence in Sikshana as a project that can deliver and make a long lasting impact. Kudos also to the grants team for working through the year persistently and putting together a great application for this.
Every year, about 20 or 30 of us wake up at 5am on a weekend and assemble at the pavilion in Lake Phalen before sunrise. We organize a fantastic race. At the MN action center, we organize quite a lot of fundraising events- be it Bowling, Cricket, cultural shows and the like. And we often enjoy organizing these events. Sometimes I tend to forget the real joy that we are working for- and that is making a difference in the life of an underprivileged child. I chanced upon the following photo slide show at the website of The Hindu, one of India’s leading newspapers in a piece titled, ‘India’s Little Laborers’.
Venky and myself met with 4 Delhi volunteers on December 28, 2008 to get the Delhi Action Center going. We introduced all of them to Vibha and what we stand for and how we do what we do. One of the volunteers is from Atlanta and thus we do have some continuity from the US…
