Giving Back: Cuddles Foundation | New Delhi
Introducing Cuddles Foundation, the only NGO in the country focusing on the issue of malnutrition amongst underprivileged children fighting cancer. In the short span of 3 years since their inception the NGO has seen meteoric expansion in its operations. Cuddles Foundation works through tie-ups with the government and charity hospitals. Its programs... Read More
Fusion’s 19th Event | Silver Linings
Fusion, a social networking platform for people with and without disabilities, had their 19th meet-up on the 2th September, 2016. Fusion was launched on 10th November 2013 at the India International Center New Delhi. This time the Fusion event took place at the Bai Vir Singh Sadan on Bai Vir Singh... Read More
Giving Back: Aditi Rao | Tasawwur
Tasawwur is an arts-for-social change initiative that works with a diverse group of teenagers in Delhi across lines of caste, class, gender, refugee status, and disability. You can watch a short video on our work here and read more about us here. Tasawwur was founded by Aditi Rao who is an award-winning poet... Read More
Giving Back: Malini Lalit Bansal | Founder Chairperson of Aasmaa Foundation
By profession, I am a spiritual Counsellor and have been helping people get over their fears and resolve marital issues for last 10 years. My specialization is aura reading, meditation and marriage counselling. I have been actively trying to promote a spiritual way of living amongst people. Since childhood, like... Read More
Giving Back: Sumita Dass | Founder & President, Life of Vision Foundation
Tell us about yourself and your background Coming from a family of educationist, finding my calling wasn’t tough. Often, our genuine passions emerge in childhood and after observing my mom and sisters, I too made my career in the education sector. As an educationist and mentor in a multicultural, professional... Read More
Giving Back: Elca Grobler | Founder, My Choices Foundation
Tell us about yourself and your background They say a dream is something you want to do but a calling is something you have to do. I can still clearly recall the moment I met Badri and was confronted with her life, her reality. She was being trained as one... Read More
Redefining Mental Health Services in India | Dr Bhavi Mody
Edupsyche is a pioneer organisation for mental health that aims to remould, redefine and refine mental health services in India. We have been relentlessly working to educate, evolve and empower individuals. With over two decades of clinical experience in training, teaching and research, we intend to change the way mental health... Read More
Blind’s Dream NGO enjoys a day at EsselWorld
EsselWorld, Asia’s largest theme park has always been a strong believer of giving back to the society through social development of underprivileged communities. Taking this belief forward, EsselWorld fulfilled the dream of 105 visually challenged girls from Blind’s Dream NGO of Ahmadabad by hosting them. The park entails to the... Read More
Giving Back: Shaheen Mistri | CEO, Teach For India
Tell us about yourself and your background I had a blessed upbringing, living in more than 10 countries – including Greece, Lebanon, America and Indonesia. In 1989, I was enrolled in an undergraduate program at Tufts University. In my second year, during my summer break in Mumbai, I walked into... Read More
Giving Back: Dr.Sharmila Nagraj Nandula | Director, Woxsen School of Arts and Design
Provide a brief description about your organisation Woxsen School of Arts and Design is on a mission to inspire a lifelong interest in design by engaging diverse communities through interactive and innovative curriculum, workshops, seminars, exhibits and programs. Woxsen School of arts and design provides you the space and freedom... Read More
Giving back: Fareesa Khan | Vice President, SAFA Society
Tell us about yourself I quit my job after 20 years in corporate travel industry. Having learnt so much from the corporate world, I decided to put my experience to better use at SAFA. SAFA is a social venture with the belief that socio economic empowerment of women begins with... Read More
Enjoy a Silver Lining!
This festive season, Silver Linings offers you an opportunity to gift ‘Empowerment’ and ‘Dignity’ to blind girls and women! We invite you to volunteer, provide infrastructure or donate cash and partner with Silver Linings to continue to help us run our ‘Project Dignity’ Project Dignity is currently providing visually impaired girls... Read More
This Diwali, share your light & illuminate hope
Cancer Facts in India 45 PEOPLE DIE OF CANCER EVERY HOUR. 3 PEOPLE DIE OF CANCER EVERY 2 MINUTE. 2 NEW PEOPLE DETECTED WITH CANCER EVERY MINUTE. 60 NEW PEOPLE DETECTED WITH CANCER EVERY HOUR Diwali is around the corner and celebration of Diwali is not just lighting diyas, bursting... Read More
Peace – do you really care?
Peace – do you really care? Can I make a difference? A joint initiative with Foundation (FIC) and Hiroshima Culture Peace Foundation. I can do nothing but talk about the problem and abdicate responsibility to ‘them’ – whoever I imagine ‘they’ are. Or, I could get together with a few... Read More
Giving back: Supporting a Silver Lining
As you may be aware, blind females in India are triply disadvantaged; they have to live with blindness, suffer all disadvantages faced by non-disabled women and as a result, are often forced to live in complete poverty. A deep sense of shame and guilt, negative social pressures and attitudes, insecurity,... Read More
Giving back: Angel Xpress Foundation Pays Tribute to its Volunteers
Paul Bloom, the legendary professor at Yale, once famously remarked, “We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to a happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with... Read More
Disha Batra, Founder and Principal, Kids Prism
With a background in Liberal Arts from Loreto College, Calcutta, I am a Montessori specialist with over 17 years experience. I began my career as a teacher in Calcutta, and worked my way up to the youngest principal of ‘Harvard House’ – one of the best known Montessori houses in... Read More
Giving back: Swati Vakharia | Founder, Women Planet Foundation
The individual with the vision to represent the face of the new Indian woman and a woman of her own substance is none other than the successful entrepreneur of today – Swati Vakharia. Swati is the brain child behind the very successfully-run platform for women: ‘Women Planet’ and ‘Women Planet... Read More
Giving back: Anubha Sharma | founder, Angel Xpress
Tell us the background to Angel Xpress Foundation I am an ex-financial services professional. I spent almost 20 years building a career in financial services, with most of this time spent with Kotak and the last 10 years of my career in regional and national level roles. I took up... Read More
Avasara Academy Announces Its Inaugural Class of 2015-16
Avasara Academy Launches in August 2015 50 deserving and talented girls are now enrolled for Avasara Academy’s inaugural class, launching this August! On Monday, April 27, 2015, Avasara Academy held its first annual Enrollment Day at the Avasara Academy Annex in Pune. Over 150 people, including students, parents, and teachers,... Read More