Results for: mid day meals

Where are the women on TV?

 
/ June 24, 2011

The perfect Indian woman is all about choices and she knows how to make the right one. She’s educated, knows her rights, is empowered enough to speak her mind. She’s a smart consumer who knows what suits her and will never settle for the second best. She’s net savvy, blogs...

Success Of Midday Meal Scheme

 
/ June 16, 2011

The provision of a free midday meal in a Raipur primary school has greatly improved school attendance and child nutrition.

Critical Plebiscite For Manipur’s Independence

 
/ June 7, 2011

Insurgents demand a plebiscite but the climate of fear is likely to hassle the process.

Kashmiri Carpets Near Extinction

 
/ May 17, 2011

Due to low profits, Kashmiri craftsmen are slowly abandoning carpet weaving.

Learning Together, Eating Separately

 
/ May 10, 2011

In Gairsen, Uttarakhand, embedded caste practices prevent children from sitting together at their midday meal.

Giant leap of India’s ‘downtrodden’: Teenage community reporter confronts tyranny, corruption

 
/ May 8, 2011

The following article by Stella Paul was published in the April issue of Silent Heroes, Invisible Bridges magazine – an International publication that focuses on positive journalism. We are re-publishing the content from the original article. Mukesh Rajak of Jagdishpur village in eastern India has unusual friends. They sit together...

Fundraiser Event

 
/ April 28, 2011

CELEBRATE VIDEO VOLUNTEERS’ JOURNEY OF EMPOWERMENT Please join founders Stalin K. and Jessica Mayberry for drinks and hors d’oevres and an inspiring conversation about community media. Video Volunteers is an India-based nonprofit that empowers the poor to change the media as we know it. Watch video reports made by slumbdwellers and villagers...

Businesswomen Stop Rural Migration

 
/ April 20, 2011

A women’s self-help group in India’s Chhattisgarh stop migration by making ready-to-eat meal powder.