Health & Sanitation

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...

As a part of the TGB Charity Campaign for Menstrual Hygiene education among underprivileged school girls, reusable cloth sanitary pad kits were distributed among 200 underprivileged girls in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. The distribution of sanitary pad kits among the 200 girls at Municipal School No. 16 in Bapunagar, Ahmedabad was among the multiple events planned...

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...

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” - Mahatma Gandhi Agriculture continues to be a major pillar of the India economy and over the last decade or so India registered a record-breaking food-grain production. It would, therefore, seem logical that India is...

NMDC, the country's largest Iron ore producing Navratna mining company, partnered with Grace Cancer Foundation, an NGO engaged in creating Cancer Awareness and conducting Screening Camps by providing a Mobile Cancer Screening Bus fitted with Mammography Machine, X-Ray Machines, Computed Radiography Imaging system, Digital Printing and other cutting-edge features. Etela Rajender, Minister of Health, Govt....

United We Care has launched a campaign called #TimeToOpenUp for World Mental Health Day 2020. The campaign will comprise of a series of initiatives including awareness posts displaying the Green Ribbon tag on social media, interesting discussions and a panel with experts. United We Care is an app-based platform that integrates social, mental, and legal...

On the occasion of World Mental Health Day today, Tata Motors in association with the MindPeers (a mental health tech service platform), launched a special campaign - ‘Stop the Endless Accident’ - to raise awareness on road safety and trauma caused by vehicular accidents. Keeping in mind that accident survivors are not considered for conventional...

The Live Love Laugh Foundation (TLLLF), a charitable trust set up in 2015, has launched “Investing in Hope,” a campaign to mark World Mental Health Day which is being observed today. The campaign is in line with the World Federation for Mental Health & WHO theme for this year: Mental Health for All: Greater...

By: Dr. Ambrish Dharmadhikari This pandemic has thrown at us unknown challenges. Have we ever thought that we would be working from the home for straight six months? Or our children will be taking a school online and for a lunch break will be with us? Or we won’t require a meeting room or for...

Together, we can surmount any crisis – including a global pandemic. This is the underlying message of nonprofit organization Population Foundation of India’s new campaign that is trying to put some cheer back in people’s lives. The CSR Journal spoke to Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director, Population Foundation of India (PFI) and two-time National Award-winning filmmaker...

The future and progress of the country depends on the younger generation. Youth can contribute to the progress of the country with new, innovative and positive thinking. However, the problem of mental illness has taken a toll across different age-groups, especially the youth. According to the WHO, one in four people worldwide suffer from a...

Hyundai Motor India Ltd. distributed over 10,000 Khadi masks across multiple slums of Mumbai as part of Hyundai Cares 2.0 Project Rakshak. The reusable Khadi masks were distributed to help the underprivileged residents of slums in Mumbai protect themselves from the ongoing pandemic. Since the lockdown, Hyundai has been at the forefront in providing COVID-19...