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Author: Samar Hafeez
Farmers feed us. How can we help put food on their plates?
Help the poorest in rural India increase their meagre income WHEN the coronavirus pandemic struck, Randhir Singh, a farmer in Sirsiwala, Punjab was in deep debt. He had a small cotton field by the railway track. Unable to pay back the loan, he killed himself on the same track. Take any state across India and you’ll…
Festival artisans are in the doldrums this Durga Puja
With idols downsized and celebrations muted, their annual income is severely reduced WITH the onset of India’s biggest festive season – Durga Puja, Dussehra and Diwali – there are strict guidelines in place for the celebrations. Most states and the central government are also nudging organisers to cut down on excesses. Festivities will be restrained, …
How do we make digital learning the new normal for every child?
Online classes are a challenge without access to phones and data DIGITAL learning for young children is a challenge, period. But when the child belongs to a low-income group family or one that lives in an area with poor connectivity this becomes a real hurdle. And this has been the reality of millions of children…
10 Ways to Celebrate DaanUtsav 2020
Participate in this annual festival and be a giver DAANUTSAV is a heartwarming way to start the festive season. Celebrated across India by people from all walks of life who come together to give back to society, this week-long festival of giving has virtually gone virtual this year! In recent months India has witnessed insurmountable…
Childhood cancer – an avoidable killer of young lives
Help children from poor families have a fighting chance to survive WHILE India struggles with the Coronavirus pandemic, other serious and prolonged illnesses have been ignored. Childhood cancer is one of them. India has the highest prevalence of the disease in the world, with a child diagnosed every 12 minutes. Cancer in children is rare…
Covid-19 drastically increases the number of abandoned children
Our joint efforts can help save young lives India has 29.6 million orphaned and abandoned children, as per the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Millions of children are abandoned each year by their parents all too often for several reasons. They are put in plastics bags and left to die in garbage dumps or put…
Healthcare bills push 57M Indians into poverty each year
Crowdfund for medical emergencies on GiveIndia HEALTHCARE in India has several challenges which include inadequate access, shortage of skilled medical professionals and an increasing chronic disease population. And the arrival of COVID-19 has tragically highlighted the situation. Our public health expenditure is just 1% of the GDP and is among the lowest in the world…
How do we help put India’s railway children back on track?
Over one lakh are found on station platforms each year All across India, over 1 crore children live on the streets. Nearly 1.2 lakh children amongst them are found on railway platforms each year. Every five minutes a child arrives alone at a railway station, usually escaping abuse of some sort. They look to make…
India’s population of malnourished children set to grow
With schools shut, the pandemic has also robbed them of midday meals INDIA accounts for over a third of the world’s population of malnourished children – one in every three children in the country fall into that category. And this was even before the coronavirus struck. Now experts fear the numbers will be catastrophic. Naina…