Team L&M Shraddha Soparkar was leading a good, well-cushioned life when a rude shock of destiny jolted her. Mother to a son, she had delivered a baby girl, and family, as many would say, had become ‘complete’. But the bliss the second-time mom experienced was short-lived. The baby girl, born premature, developed some infection which […]Read More
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Team L&M An initiative of I Care Learning School, a school engaged with educating children of special needs, Feet Me Up helps these people become economically self-sufficient through hand-painting shoe and accessories. It was founded by physiotherapist Dr Deepshikha Manocha (DM) and Prasannta Arora (PA), a Psychologist in 2018. “Our motto is Let’s make dependent […]Read More
Upasana Kaura With the goal to get the children of migrant labourers back to their schools, Vasant Kunj resident Richa Prasant started an NGO Sunaayy in 2009. After days of counselling parents and children she managed to get 10 kids to her road-side teaching centre. That small beginning had a huge impact on parents and […]Read More
Ashwani Kumar Sharma Often we have been fed on the belief that a majority of people in society are uncaring kind who wouldn’t turn a second glance at someone in trouble. This belief gets more strengthened, thanks to newspapers and news channels, who would rather publish articles of cheats than Good Samaritans. And, living in […]Read More
Upasana Kaura Two students, Tarini Malhotra (Class 10) and Avni Singh (Class 11) have joined hands and set up a project, Project Nishant to help neuro-diverse people get recognition, respect, gainful employment, and self-sustaining opportunities. They recently held an online exhibition that featured over 50 paintings made by young neuro-diverse artists, some as young as […]Read More
Two young women are educating women about hygiene and sanitation and have distributed nearly five lakh reusable sanitary pads Picture this: They had been family friends but never got an opportunity to touch base with each other. A chance meeting a couple of years ago led them to get talking about working together. Since then, […]Read More
He is an educationist; a country representative for Glocal International Teen Conference (GITC) 2020 from India; among the top 10 global finalists for the VTRAC Programme by Harvard University; an invitee for the PennApps, the world’s biggest hackathon at the University of Pennsylvania; a Birla Young Indian awardee who works as a writer for visually […]Read More
Team L&M Philanthropist Meera Gandhi is the founder of The Giving Back Foundation which aims towards the development of women and children through education besides supporting charities with strong female leadership programs and workshops like the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and the Eleanor Roosevelt Leadership Centre. Building on the idea of positive reinforcement, the foundation made a five-year commitment […]Read More
Team L&M Despite the fact that 50-80 per cent of blindness caused by cataract is treatable, cataract is the leading cause of blindness in India. Reason: This health issue is much-ignored. People, especially in lower strata of society, remain unaware of it and hence, rarely visit the eye specialist. “The cost of this operation is […]Read More
Team L&M There are hundreds of thousands of cases around us, probably even in our neighbourhood, where a woman has been subjected to domestic violence. And in a majority of cases, these women either end their precious lives prematurely else relegate themselves to a life of a helpless individual. Of course, it is never too […]Read More