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6 most prominent Indian LGBT activists

We have begun the third week of LGBT History Month 2020 yet nowhere close to know more about the gay rights movement than when the month started. The movement on American soil has been rather well documented than on Indian shores. However, there isn't much on Indian LGBT activists, without whom the queer community...

Coal India’s CSR Inititative ‘Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojna’ Extended for Two Years

About 10,000 to 12,000 children are born with thalassemia every year in India. In order to provide a one-time cure opportunity for Haemoglobinopathies, Coal India through its CSR initiative had launched Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojna under Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) in 2017. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has now launched the...

World Food Day 2020: Nutri-thali, New Coin and Roti Bank in India

World Food Day 2020 falls on the 75th anniversary of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today. There is more buzz surrounding this day than usual. For one, the World Food Programme (WFP) bagged the Nobel Peace Prize this week. The award-winning WFP is the food assistance branch of the United Nations, fighting hunger and...

Global Handwashing Day 2020: Effectiveness of Washing Hands Correctly

Handwashing is an important personal hygiene practice that is often underrated. The benefits of handwashing are manifold. It helps prevent diarrhoea and respiratory infections and may even help prevent skin and eye infections. In fact, handwashing is also recommended to prevent the spread of COVID-19, that has claimed more than 100,000 lives in India. Global Handwashing Day 2020 Global...

October is LGBT History Month!

Globally, LGBT History Month is held every October as a celebration of inspirational personalities who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer. As we close one fortnight and enter the second one in LGBT History Month 2020, let's salute queer icons in India. Without these courageous personalities, the queer movement wouldn’t have been alive...

NIKE Global Impact and CSR Report – NIKE Spent $81.9 million on community development

Girls get it done. And no other brand depicts this better than NIKE. This sports brand, which has epitomised cool for decades, is making sports and fitness all the more inclusive, especially for girls and women across the board. A look at the NIKE Global Impact and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives of late...

COVID-19 Impact: Global Poverty Rises for the First Time in 20 Years

COVID-19 outbreak has changed the way we perceive the world. For the first time in 20 years, the global poverty rates are to rise because of the pandemic. According to a new World Bank report, the world will have 88-115 million ‘new extreme poor people’ in 2020 due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...

Do you have coronaphobia?

Coronaphobia is affecting more people than the coronavirus. Call it another byproduct of the global pandemic. Or an adverse effect of these “unprecedented times”. Coronaphobia is a relatively new psychological condition that is causing as much distress as getting infected with COVID-19. What is coronaphobia? Coronaphobia is the name for the fear and anxiety of getting...

CSR project Stainless Aashiyana emancipating domestic violence victims

The lockdown has given no respite to victims of domestic violence. In fact, their torture has worsened in the pandemic since they were in close quarters with their partners who are usually the perpetrators. The National Commission for Women recorded more cases of domestic violence during COVID-19 pandemic than in the last decade. This...

World Sight Day 2020: CSR for the visually challenged

World Sight Day is a global day for putting the spotlight on vision impairment and blindness. The theme for World Sight Day 2020 is 'Hope in Sight' which makes the story of Vijeta Parmar a perfect tale for the day. Vijeta is pursuing her Master's degree in Political Science from Delhi University. She is sharp...

Citizen social responsibility (CSR) – Viral #BabaKaDhaba video brings elderly couple hope

All the talk of the perils of social media aside, there is goodness to be found on it, once in a blue moon. Those good stories, few and far between, are driven by people owning up to their citizen social responsibility in the most unexpected places. One such is the little #BabaKaDhaba food stall...

5 Bollywood celebs talking #MentalHealth

In the lead-up to World Mental Health Day 2020, we are looking at Bollywood celebs talking #mentalhealth. These are people from the entertainment industry who have opened up about their own mental health issues and, in the process, widened the conversation about this topic to the masses. Famous Bollywood celebs talking #mentalhealth These personalities have, knowingly...

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