OIL INDIA: HELPING UNDERPRIVILEGED TO ACHIEVE LIFE’S GOAL
INITIATIVE Farmers experience a tough life. They are the sole reason for fulfilling our daily requirement for food. A farmer’s income is generated by selling the crops. If the crops are good, then it got sold and if the crops are bad then life becomes miserable. Though, they feed the entire humanity, their life conditions […]
BONDED LABOUR CHALLENGES AND REMEDIES
Despite a Parliament Act and Supreme Court order, existence of bonded labour points to the lack of awareness on the ground, reports IMMANUEL CYRUS The International Labour Organisation (ILO) along with Australia-based Walk Free Foundation (WFF), recently published a report titled ‘Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage 2017’, that said that […]
IIRD CONCLAVE FOR EMPOWERING VILLAGES
Away from existing practices and myths, organising Rural Conclave in Village Sholi of Himachal Pradesh and Launching of MISSION RIEV in IIRD Head office, Shimla has been an eye opening experience for every participant. Around 130 km away from Shimla city, conclave witnessed the participation of around 200 intellectuals from different walks of life from […]
LEADING THE NATION TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Development of Social Sciences in the world was plagued by three factors: (i) the unresolved dichotomy in western and eastern thinking about human nature, culture and society emerging from varying world-views; (ii) the assumed supremacy of western social sciences over the eastern texts; and (iii) the assumed supremacy of physical science knowledge when compared to […]
RIGHT TO EDUCATION: STILL TO BLOSSOM
Following the footprints of Mahatma Gandhi, the newly constituted government in the year 1950 made it clear that ‘promoting child education’ was the need of the hour.The Indian parliament elaborated the significant features of child education by incorporating various new provisions in the pages of Indian constitution. Apart from few constitutional articles, the main provisions […]
MOVING TOWARDS NEW INDIA IN NEW YEAR
The year 2017 was an eventful year for the CSR Times as it saw both the re-launch of the magazine in a refurbished avatar and also of our website csrtimes.org. The year was not just the year of revival for the CSR Times but also for the Indian economy and society. The year also marked […]
WADIA HOSPITALS ORGANIZES LITTLE HEARTS MARATHON 2018
EVENT 25,000 children participated to raise awareness for a Healthy Heart With increasing popularity amongst Children; LHM will expand to more cities in future — Ness Wadia Funds generated from the marathon to be utilised for the Paediatric Cardiac Surgery department ● In 2017, Wadia Hospitals conducted 200 Paediatric cardiac surgeries; This year (2018) it’s […]
TURKISH WHISTLING LANGUAGE OF NORTHERN VILLAGE OF KUSKÖY NOW ON UNESCO LIST
In the mountains of northern Turkey, people might hear the strains of whistling on the breeze. It sounds like birdsong, complete with trills, chirrups and lilting whistles. But this whistling is entirely human. The next time you are in Turkey, visit Kuskoy – the village in district Canakci in Giresun province where people communicate through […]
Genpact Social Impact Fellowship Showcases the Power of Collaboration to Transform the Social Sector
PRESS RELEASE Genpact (NYSE: G), a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation for clients, hosted a leadership forum with EdelGive Foundation – the philanthropic arm of Edelweiss Group, to discuss how companies can join forces to transform the non-profit sector. The event featured Genpact Social Impact Fellowship (GSIF) as a successful, scalable […]
YES FOUNDATION announces INR 7.5 Crore Grant and Accelerator support for NGOs and Social Enterprises
PRESS RELEASE YES FOUNDATION, the social development arm of YES BANK, will launch the 5th edition of YES! I am the CHANGE (YIAC), a nationwide mindset transformation program to inculcate the spirit of responsible youth citizenship and drive positive social action through the impactful medium of films. YES FOUNDATION will provide Youth, NGOs/Social Enterprises with […]
