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Help Get 25,000 People a Doctor Today!

 
/ July 16, 2014

Absentee doctor, medical negligence and lack of concern for the health and welfare of residents of Potanai village council.  Let’s turn that around for the better today.   Call to Action:  Pressurise the Chief District Medical Officer to appoint a regular doctor at the Potanai Health Center.    Dr. Bijay...

10 Years No Light

 
/ July 15, 2014

“It has been around 10-11 years now, since we have had no electricity in our village.” Can you imagine living without electricity for 10 years!  This is the reality for residents at Harijan Kalyan Tola Mushajari village, Bihar.   Call to Action: You can help them.  Call the number below and...

Bajrangbali Nagar needs a New Road

 
/ July 14, 2014

Residents of Bajarangbali Nagar village have been suffering with the bad roads in their village for the last couple of years.  They have told the Chief Officer countless times, but he has given them false promises of fixing the road.  They need your help to pressurise the Development Officer to...

Paying the price for my husband’s violence

 
/ July 11, 2014

“I was punched in the face and beaten up…I was beaten on my back with an iron rod,” Mirabai recounts her husband’s violent acts toward her.  The police did nothing to protect her.  The same night her drunken husband murdered the neighbour.  Only then did the police act.  Had they...

Proactive grannies need your Proactive Support

 
/ July 11, 2014

Robbed of their pensions.  Government negligence.  Old and left with no other option but to work the land.  Shame.  Imagine your grandmother breaking her back in the fields so she can feed herself.  Disgraceful shame.   “In the time of sowing seeds in the farms we work in the Munda...

Not a drop to drink

 
/ July 9, 2014

No water to drink! Broken wells dry up quickly.  Unsafe toxic water in hand pumps.  The water comes out black or turns yellow when kept in a vessel.  This is what residents from Kailashpur have to face everyday.  You can change this today.   Call to Action:  Pressure the Village...

Displacement- Pretend Promises, Damaged Dreams

 
/ July 9, 2014

“They said so many things before uprooting us, but did not fulfill their promises.”   This is the case for residents of Turitola village, who were uprooted from their homes in the name of development but not given adequate compensation.   Call to Action:Help them now!   Prakash Chanda, General...

Another case of government neglect in a school

 
/ July 9, 2014

One teacher in the school, managing, teaching and supervising 250 children.  Midday meals not being served regularly and on the verge of halting altogether.  Sound similar?  Yes.  This is another case of government neglect in Phulpadar village primary school that you need to put to right.  Are you ready?  I...