Chuppi Todo: Don’t keep Mum, speak to your Mom
Every second child is sexually abused in India. According to the national study on child abuse in 2007, 53.22% of the children surveyed across India reported one or more forms of sexual abuse. Data...
View ArticleISKCON ANNAMRITA – “Providing nutritious food to millions of children”
The global hunger index placed India at number 67 among the 80 countries having the worst hunger situation. While on the one side 44% of children under the age of 5 are underweight, on the other side...
View ArticleChat Toilets: A Social Innovation that keeps traditions intact
Defecation is one of the biggest problems for women in villages. They have to get up early and finish it before sun rises. And if they are ill, it becomes immensely troublesome. To solve this problem,...
View ArticleArunachalam Muruganantham: The Man who invented low cost sanitary napkin machine
Over 88% women in India use unhygienic clothes in their menstrual periods. They can’t afford sanitary napkins that are currently available in market. A. Muruganantham, a school dropout due to poor...
View ArticleDr. Devi Shetty – The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery
Imagine the feelings of a mother when she hands her few days old child for a heart operation. In India, about three hundred thousand children suffer from heart disease every year- highest in the world....
View ArticleVinayak Lohani and his Parivaar
Imagine a person getting into the premier most institutes of India, and when all his batch-mates and friends started getting lucrative offers from the big names in the industry, he decided to give up...
View ArticleProject Chirag – lighting up rural households
In India, it is estimated that over 30 crore Indians still do not have access to power in any form. Result is, there day ends early as soon as the sun goes down. In February 2010, the Students in Free...
View ArticleParle–G, A dip that’s become an Indian habit
Parle-G, India’s premier glucose biscuit, is much more than the world’s largest selling brand of biscuit. Started way back in 1939, Parle-G is not just the oldest and trusted brand names in India, but...
View ArticleMirakle Couriers – Delivering Possibilities
It is estimated that India has about 80 lakh (8 million) deaf adults, making us one of the world’s largest deaf population. Only half of them find employment. When they do find employment, for most of...
View ArticleVijay Mahajan
Vijay Mahajan, one of India’s most successful entrepreneur graduated from IIT Delhi in 1975 and did his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad in 1981. Vijay has been listed in “60 Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs” by...
View ArticleFarmsnFarmers – Working at the Grass Root Level
Around 75% of farmers in India fall in category of small & marginal farmers i.e. with small land holding, facing problems like crop selection based on soil type, quality inputs, technological and...
View ArticleGiveIndia – The Art of Giving
As it is said “a life lived for others is a life worthwile.”We all earn money and spend it for our pleasure. But the happiness of donating a needy is what people hardly experience. There are people in...
View ArticleTeachers as Transformers – Transforming Education, Inspiring Lives . .
“Education is a powerful weapon that can change the world” - Nelson Mandela. So obvious. Isn’t it? Ask anyone...
View ArticleBharatlaxmi Gas Stove – A Boon for Rural Women
Envision yourself in a village. Odds are you will visualise bullock carts paving their way on dusty roads, farmers pushing themselves on the field to feed the nation, mud houses emitting a sooty smoke,...
View ArticleTeach for India – Architecting Educational Equality
On a casual trip across facebook, my eyes got transfixed at one of the status updates, which read; “Just imagine! What if the cure of a deadly disease like cancer is entrapped in a child’s mind who...
View ArticleRang De – Make a Social Investment & share colours of Joy !
First of all, pat on your back, that in this fast moving, so called developed era, you have paused to spend your few minutes on this article written merely for a social cause. “Donation” has been quite...
View ArticleFriends2Support – Friends in need are Friends indeed.
Life is a wonderful gift and to sustain life, blood is something whose importance cannot be described in mere words. As a general instinct, we don’t really appreciate the need of something unless we...
View ArticleSECMOL- Integrating Culture & Technology.
SECMOL – A Ladakh based initiative that aims to radicalise the Education process. Almost all of us are aware of the impact created by the movie ‘3 idiots’. It was indeed a masterpiece. Initially, many...
View ArticleFem Sustainable Social Solutions
femS3: Bridging the barriers The field of social enterprise is young and most inclusive business models are unproven, requiring flexibility and re-tooling in their nascent stages. Moreover, there are...
View ArticleNimbkar Agricultural Research Institute : For Sustainable Rural Development
Growth of Agriculture and Manufacturing sector is among the top priorities any incoming government. Keeping this in mind Team sociovigil makes an effort to create awareness of new emerging areas which...
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