It was because of Viji’s four-year long effort that led the LDF government to amend the Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishments Act.

To make India accessible for differently-abled, Shakti Cajla co-founded Bangalore-based NGO Anuprayaas, to provide facilities and the much-needed solution this country needs.

In this game, there are several chits in a box with a role written on them, either a transgender, an uneducated woman or a rich urban male. The policemen have to draw a chit and the role on the chit will be assigned to them. Each one of them then faces a different crisis and has to visit the police station.

Hunger and illiteracy are two challenges that plague our country like nothing else. Identifying these two issues and working to bring change is a volunteer-based organisation The Robin Hood Army (RHA). RHA volunteers across cities and countries get surplus food from restaurants nearby and serve them in local slums, homeless families, orphanages, patients from public hospitals and old […]

The #MeToo movement is here to stay. Be it Bollywood, the literary scene or journalism, flames of the movement are spreading far and wide, blackening reputations of several big names in India. One may wonder what took women so long to share their #MeToo stories, considering that rumours of the casting couch in Bollywood have […]

Women in Maharashtra’s Latur and Osmanabad districts have set a new example of empowerment. About 25 years ago, an earthquake had shattered the lives of people. Around 52 villages of the two districts suffered great damage. But the women of the region stood strong and took it as a challenge to restore their houses and in turn became […]

UK’s Prince Harry and his bride-to-be Meghan Markle have released a list of seven NGOs to which people can make donations instead of giving them wedding gifts. “The couple have chosen charities (that) represent a range of issues they are passionate about, including sport for social change, women’s empowerment, conservation, the environment, homelessness, HIV and the […]

A Jammu-based organisation recently felicitated a woman doctor for donating blood 53 times in a period of three decades. the Indian Society of Blood Transfusion and Immunohematology (ISBTI) awarded Kiran Sharma, a senior medical officer at the Police Hospital for her consistent contribution in the voluntary blood donation movement. Established in 1972 after the Indo-Pak war, […]

Toybank is an NGO which promotes a cause many may not have heard of — the right to play. It teaches empathy, educates and empowers children who are at risk through the medium of play. Toybank founder, Shweta Chari, speaks to us about how play can effect change in a tangible way and about building […]

“My education gave me the opportunity to be the person that I wanted to be,” said Safeena Husain, elaborating on the thought behind Educate Girls. An active social worker, Husain’s Educate Girls currently works with over 21,000 schools across 15 districts in India. The pilot plan started in a school in Pali district in 2004. So […]