Banking on thrift and credit
Cooperative banks initiated with assistance from an NGO in the Capital have plucked slumdwellers out of the red
Counting on origami
The Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes empowers tribals with the knowledge of mathematics
Literacy on the move
A programme to provide education to the nomadic Gujjars is showing encouraging results and also checking their exploitation
Tubelights give more than light to labs
Used tubelights can now be recycled into laboratory apparatus that are cheap and as good as those available in the market.
A bank to save the embarrassment of riches
Surplus food from hotels in the Capital is no longer thrown away: A non-profit organisation that started recently collects the food and …
Home is where AIDS care is in Uganda
Instead of treating AIDS patients in hospitals, an organisation in Uganda is effectively extending health care to them in their own homes
Teaching children they will inherit the earth
In Nepal, camps for making children more environmentally conscious are proving increasingly popular. And in many families it's the …
Family plot
Timely practices of mulching, watering and pruning have allowed the Kachares to thrive on "barren" ground
Caught between boars and bureaucracy
Authorities of a wildlife sanctuary propose to curb the menace of rampaging wild boars by providing affected villagers with, among other things, …
Powering people
Proliferating grassroots level activity in Orissa is empowering villagers, taking them closer to a fairytale end to unending tales of poverty and …
What car is this anyway?
Can a pumpset metamorphose into a motor vehicle? Somewhere out there in Haryana,they call this smoke-belching, spit-and-gum contraption a Maruta
Cleaning up the frontyard
Some Delhi residents tackle the Capital's mountainous garbage problem as civic authorities apathetically look on
Budding brains
Children from all over India recently came together bursting with ideas on how to build a cleaner country
We can overcome
It was the most polluted city in the US, and now, it is the recipient of the UN Best Practices Award. Chattanoogans have spearheaded this …
A multi-pronged attack
The people of southern Zimbabwe have found a variety of ways and means to upgrade the quality of the environment in their part of the world
Dharohar's dividends
Farmers and activists in Bastar reject high-yielding rice varieties to preserve traditional varieties
Reviving nature
A professor heralds hope and greenery into a remote Orissa village to set it free from a web of untouchability, superstition, illiteracy and poverty
Seeds of progress
An NGO in Karnataka is endeavouring to make poor farmers self-reliant in managing and sustaining land development projects in Kolar district
A learning experience
NGOs in Bangladesh have made non-formal education a trailblazing success story by employing ingenious teaching methods tailored to the needs of …
The Seed Supremo
The Beej Bachao Andolan boasts of a collection of native seed varieties that could put any genebank to shame
Tribal turmoil
Upbeat about the restoration of ownership rights, Gadchiroli tribals march towards self-governance
Churning the stilled waters
The citizens of Udaipur are increasingly taking on the government to check degradation of the city's famed lakes
A motley crew of forest protectors
In Karnataka's Kodagu district, a group of people battling timber traders trying to exploit their region's virgin forests has earned the wrath of …
Project brings cheap cement to the village
Narasimharaju's dream of providing inexpensive cement for rural use will come true when his plant starts production later this year.
Children teach elders with play on street
Against the opulent backdrop of the WHO building in the Capital, children of the Anna Nagar slum act out on the street their …