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Hundreds of new titles are published each year for children in India, but only a handful of children's books feature a differently-abled character in the story. And books which realistically portray disability are rare. In November 2016, Parag (a Tata Trusts initiative), Vidya Sagar School Chennai and Duckbill Books, introduced a contest to address the...

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Report 2017 revealed that an estimated 10.4 million people fell ill with TB in 2016: 56% of these were in five countries - India, Indonesia, China, the Philippines and Pakistan. In 2016, there were 600,000 new cases with resistance to Rifampicin (RR- TB), the most effective first-line...

‘Behtar India’ is a Collaborative Social Responsibility campaign that rallies to get different segments of the society together to work towards making their cities cleaner, greener and healthier. The format not only supplements the government's efforts to provide preventive as well as preventive healthcare to the community, but also ensures quality curative healthcare and...

Increased engagement from all sectors of society, along with a whole of government approach will be key to advancing the United Nation’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the region where at the current rate of progress, only one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is on track to be met by 2030. This was...

The Great African Caravan’s pre-launch event took place on 18th July 2018, the Nelson Mandela Day, in partnership with UNESCO in New Delhi, India. The evening was blessed by the presence of Mr. Al-Amin Yusuph, Officer-in-Charge and Advisor for Communication and Information for South Asia, UNESCO New Delhi Cluster Office, Rahul Ram the lead...

15th of July is marked and celebrated as World Youth Skills Day every year. Since the launch of National Youth Skill Mission in 2015, India has progressed significantly in terms of employability of youth. According to the fifth edition of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) ‘India Skills Report 2018’, the employability score has...

Since 2007, the Red Panda Network has been working to protect red pandas and their habitats in Nepal. They use an integrated, landscape level approach for red panda conservation, which includes research and monitoring, education and outreach, habitat protection and restoration, and sustainable development initiatives. BodyShop is on board to be an active partner of...

Samhita Social Ventures and the Maharashtra Government have signed an MOU in the presence of Hon. Chief Minister Shri Devendra Fadnavis to implement the Swachh Maharashtra Grand Challenge in the district of Chandrapur. The Grand Challenge will identify, pilot and scale innovations across the sanitation value chain: behaviour change, sanitation entrepreneurship, school sanitation and faecal...

As part of its commitment to sustainable development, Ambuja Cements Ltd. is continuing to scale up its efforts to build more robust and effective water resource management approaches in and around its operations to preserve and conserve this natural resource amidst growing water scarcity which is triggering ecological destabilisation. Aligned with its Group LafargeHolcim’s Sustainable...

Ericsson has announced its support to the WFP Trust for India to further their work on developing customised ICT solutions that will bring efficiencies across the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) in Odisha. TPDS scheme involves procurement, allocation, and transportation of food-grains as well as distribution amongst eligible beneficiaries. Operated jointly by Central and...

Following incessant rain recently, Assam, Mizoram, Tripura and Manipur is witnessed flooding. Several areas of upper Assam and Barak valley are flooded. Difolu River has been overflowing. Water has also covered some stretch of National Highway 37, the highway liking Upper Assam and Guwahati. Around 700 to 800 metre of the national highway in Lotabari area is submerged. In Karimganj, flood waters...

Gender equality is still a dream for future in our country. Many powerful women have managed to rise in the patriarchal society we live in, however it is still long way to go before we manage to bring equality for women in every aspect personally and professionally. Working towards the cause, Procter & Gamble (P&G)...