Walk for a Cause: Bay Area Dream Mile 2012

The first time a mother holds her bundle of joy in her arms she starts dreaming for him the best in life.  He would wear the best clothes, eat quality food, get the best education and have a healthy life.  This is what every mother wishes for her child but many simply cannot realize this [...]

Why volunteer? A child’s perspective

VIBHA DALLAS FORT WORTH This entire text is written by a team of two enthusiastic nine-year olds, with only minor grammatical corrections made by tyrannical adults. My mouth let out a satisfying burp. Boy! I just had a scrumptious dinner at the 5 Star Taj hotel in India. My tummy was all happy and the doorman [...]

The Reservation Syndrome

- E S Ramamurthy  It is ironical – and sad too- that the entire subject of Right To Education (RTE) has been hijacked by one issue: the reservation stipulated under the Act for the neighborhood kids in private schools. In the context of solving the problems faced by the country in the field of Education, nothing [...]

A Good Deed Every Day

- Dilip G and Harshad Parakh Scientists claim that doing good deeds helps you lead a happy and content life. Monetary contributions are one such well established way helping those in need. A carefully chosen and well thought contribution not only epitomizes generosity but leads to a more satisfying giving experience due visible results on the [...]

Autism and India

- Chinmayi Bhavani Shankar By one definition, autism is defined as a developmental disorder that appears in the first 3 years of life, and affects the brain’s normal development of social and communication skills. At first glance, it seems relatively harmless. It doesn’t affect regular bodily functions, it doesn’t cause deformities, and it just affects [...]

They too need our help to grow!

- Abraham Pabbathi 1.5 million, that’s the number of kids who go to sleep without a home each year.  No we are not talking about some third world country; these are statistics from America (homelesschildrenamerica.org). Most of these kids don’t know where their next meal is going to come from. Most of these kids are [...]

The Unbelievable

- E S Ramamurthy  [Founder of Sikshana Foundation] I visited the school at Kothavarapalle in the Madanapalle cluster recently. This one looked no different from the others till I saw a box in the office marked ‘Life Line’. Curiosity drove me to ask the HM what this so-called life line was about. She told me [...]

Gram Vikas Trust-Sikshana in Gujurat

- Ramesh Kasondra and Vijay Vemulapalli Vibha-Sikshana partnership has crossed another milestone. Vibha approved a new project with GVT (Gram Vikas Trust) in Gujarat implementing Sikshana model in 15 schools, starting October 2010. This is the direct result of the 4-day workshop Vibha jointly conducted with Sikshana in July 2010. This is the second time [...]

Imperiling public education

- E. S. Ramamurthy (As published in http://indiatogether.org/2011/jan/edu-rtepds.htm) Most private schools are not elite at all, contrary to public perception, and the Right to Education Act will let them run amok at the expense of the public education system, writes E S Ramamurthy. 20 January 2011 – The economics of owning and running a Ration [...]

Reduce and Reuse Plastic – Save the environment! If children can do this, so can you!

The children of Sevalaya school in the village of Kasuva near Thiruninravur about 42 kms west of Chennai participated in the 2010 Design for Change contest along with 250,000 children in 38,000 schools across 24 countries. The Design for Change contest initiated by Kiran Bir Sethi, Founder, Design for Change gives children from schools around [...]