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A Union That Accords Dignity And Safety In Numbers To Women Waste Pickers
Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP), a union of scrap collectors started by Dr Baba Adhav in 1993, has now become a force much larger than just a collection of waste pickers, mostly women. It...
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Educate Girls – Enabling Communities In Rural Rajasthan To Send Their...
Started five years ago, Educate Girls aims to get as many girls as possible into school so they can benefit from a good education, improve their lives and become an asset to their communities. And what...
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A Palace For The Poor – For 108 Years Now!
A century old home whose service is ever increasing. In my last two decades of association with charitable organisations and social institutions, and studies in the areas of development economics, I...
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Eklavya – Clarifying And Facilitating the Right to Education So Many More Can...
Ensuring success of the RTE inclusion policy requires concerted efforts by all of us. Here is an organization that is working to spread awareness about the process and helping more deserving candidates...
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DCCW: A Cradle of Hope for Abandoned, Physically or Mentally Challenged Children
Support DCCW, Make an Impact! We have seen many a Bollywood film where a helpless mother leaves her crying infant outside a home or religious institution and vanishes into thin air. While those...
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From Building Bridges To Building Blood Banks, This Man Has Done It All!
Since his childhood, Saunak's school art teacher fascinated not only him but the whole school. He was a multi-talented person. However, when Saunak met him years after he left school, he learnt other...
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A Hearing Impaired Child Started Listening And Speaking. Meet The Team Who...
This unique programme started as an experiment with the introduction of an unknown therapy and a method that promised no definite results. Today, after almost two decades, AURED stands out for the kind...
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TBI Photo Story: Five Snapshots That Ask Us Some Tough Questions About...
Ever wondered what "inclusion" is? Is it accepting things which you are not too comfortable with? Or is it being open to "different" people, cultures and traditions. Here are five takes on what...
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He Is A Singing Sensation. CBSE Topper. Visually Impaired. Are You As...
Diwakar Sharma left his visual impairment behind as he not only won many hearts in a television music reality show but also topped in the 12th grade CBSE board exams. As he transformed from being a...
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These Fathers Are Silently Building A Caste-Less India, One Child At A Time
They don’t hold flags nor shout slogans. They are not the heroes movies will celebrate. These three men are just like you and me, working hard to keep their family happy, especially the little ones in...
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6 Brilliant Attempts to Increase Access for the Differently Abled in India
While a major portion of India is not easily accessible for differently-abled people living in the country, there have been some very thoughtful attempts which can be replicated for a more inclusive...
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At 19, Ze Came out of the Closet. Today, Ze Is Helping the LGBTQIA Community...
Gopi Shankar does not fit in any prescribed male or female gender. Refusing to be categorized as “he” or “she,” Gopi asked us to use the gender neutral pronoun “ze.” And ze is indeed a free soul who is...
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OPINION: For India’s LGBT Community, Hope Floats on the Curative Petition on...
The LGBT community hopes that the upcoming hearing will be a step towards granting it positive rights in India. In 2009, in a case brought forward by the Naz Foundation, the Delhi High Court had passed...
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Speech and Hearing Impaired Individuals Run the Show at This Mumbai Restaurant!
Mirchi and Mime is an innovative restaurant in the Powai area of Mumbai. It boasts of a friendly wait staff of 27 servers, all of whom are hearing and speech impaired. I have often heard my parents and...
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How the Government Is Helping Make the Workplace More Accessible And...
The Government has recently launched the Inclusiveness and Accessibility Index to benchmark and evaluate readiness of various stakeholders for making the workplace accessible for Persons with...
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TBI Blogs: An Organization in TN Is Empowering Youth to Break the Barriers...
Marginalised communities in Tamil Nadu are getting the chance to build a better life for themselves, thanks to the NGO, Manithan, and its commitment to ensure empowerment through education. "It was...
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TBI Blogs: How My Best Friend with Cerebral Palsy Helped Me See the World...
A young girl's story of her best friend demonstrates that, once we look past physical or intellectual disabilities, we're not that different after all. I vividly remember the day we got transferred to...
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This Double Arm Amputee Drives So Well With His Legs, He Could Not Be Denied...
“I make the most of whatever I have,” that’s what Vikram Agnihotri, the man who has no arms yet drives with his legs, says! Vikram has lived by this philosophy since the age of seven when he lost both...
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TBI Blogs: The Supreme Court – and a New Legislation – Are Bringing Fresh...
Last week the Supreme Court directed the Centre to fulfill promises under the ‘Accessible India’ campaign. This campaign – launched a year ago – seeks to make half the buildings in each state capital...
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RJ Mir Has the Perfect Response for Trolls Who Criticised Him for Celebrating...
Through a strongly worded post on Facebook, Mir Afsar Ali (RJ Mir) has taken on trolls who attacked him on social media for celebrating Christmas. Mir, who is a popular comedian and an RJ based out of...
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