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Nipun Mehta: 'Compassion is contagious'
Operating on the voluntary strength of 1,800 members around the world, Nipun Mehta's CharityFocus empowers non-profit organisations with Web-based technological solutions. The idea is to help those who help others More... Ashok Khosla: Mini enterprise leads to macro changeAshok Khosla has spent decades developing and promoting environment-friendly and commercially viable technologies ranging from village power plants using agricultural waste as fuel to mini factories that recycle paper and local enterprises that make low-cost roofing tiles. The founder of Development Alternatives has been awarded the United Nations-Sasakawa Environment Prize for 2002 More... Kani tribals reap financial benefits from wonderdrug JeevaniIn a benefit-sharing biodiversity model that has made the UN sit up and take notice, the Kani tribals of Kerala share the benefits of the licensing fee and royalties on the sale of wonderdrug Jeevani derived from the 'magical' Aryogapacha plant. The man who has made this global benefit-sharing model possible is Dr P Pushpangadan More... Dr Lenin Raghuvanshi: Caste, not class, is at the root of bonded labourRealising that the problems of caste have to be tackled at the roots, Lenin Raghuvanshi has adopted four villages and one slum in which he is reactivating defunct primary schools, eradicating bonded labour, ensuring that girls get an education and that dalits have a minimum 50 per cent representation on village committees More... Beena Sheth Lashkari: Making invisible children visibleBeena Sheth Lashkari is designing continuous, rapid innovations to provide slum children their first exposure to education and to help them stay in school. From doorstep schools to schools-on-wheels to evening schools, Beena finds creative ways to make that first approach successful More... Who will clean up the Bhopal mess?Rashida Bee, a survivor of the Bhopal gas tragedy, is at the Earth Summit, carrying a broom. Bee, who has been campaigning ceaselessly for justice for the Bhopal victims, hopes to hand over the broom to the head of multinational Dow Chemicals, in a symbolic suggestion that they clean up the mess they've left behind More... `Social motivation without sustainability has no value': Akhtar BadshahAkhtar Badshah, executive director and co-founder of Digital Partners Global - a development organisation that showcases, assists and brings in funding to support good ventures -- sees "enormous potential" in digital technologies and the digital economy helping poor communities leapfrog out of poverty More... Drs Nandakumar and Shylaja Menon: Coming homeFrom top-of-the-line healthcare centres in New York to the Gudalur Adivasi Hospital in Tamil Nadu was one hell of a jump for Drs Nandakumar and Shylaja Menon. But it's been 12 years, and they're still working in their dream village More... C K Janu: 'Experience is my guide'C K Janu is illiterate and has no political ideology except her own, born of poverty, bondage and the experience of working as a domestic and daily-wage labourer since the age of seven. And yet she is spearheading the struggle of Kerala's 3.5 lakh landless adivasis (tribals) More... Bimla Devi: Health messages and hymnsBimla Devi, a young dalit woman from Nagal Teju village in Haryana, has managed to ensure safe motherhood and deliveries in her village. She has got the upper and lower castes drinking water from the same tap. She has prevented a child marriage. And she has spread awareness about gender equality and panchayati raj. More... Drs Roopa and Narayanan Devadasan: Incredible odds, fighting the godsUntil the '90s the tribal people of Gudalur Valley summoned the Bettakurumba gods for all their health problems. It was years before Drs Roopa and Narayanan Devadasan could begin to change the tribal health scenario. But slowly and painfully their determination paid off. Now the Bettakurumba gods have started sending patients to the Gudalur Adivasi Hospital! More... Rehmat Fazalbhoy: A wider visionJamnalal Bajaj awardwinner Rehmat Fazalbhoy, visually impaired herself, was the first trained teacher for the blind in India and the first to promote the idea of integrated education for the disabled. More... Ramachandra Guha: The trouble with radical environmentalistsWell-known historian and writer Ramachandra Guha discusses the crisis in the environmental movement today, how environmentalists are always looking for impossible ideal solutions, and why development must place equal emphasis on ecology, social justice and economics. After all, he says, isn't democracy all about harmonising conflicting interests? More... Anil Agarwal: Economic globalisation must be followed by ecological globalisationIn an interview with Le Monde (April 1999), environmentalist Anil Agarwal, who passed away on January 2, talks about the three big challenges for humanity in the 21st century More... |
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