NGO
Teach for India – NGO with a Mission
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State for US currently visiting India joined with Aamir Khan in a conference on Education at St. Xavier’s college at Mumbai. They found a common ground in challenging bright youth to take care of millions of Indian citizens that falling behind.
Empowering Rural Women to bring Electricity to Villages.
In India, 220,000 villages lack electricity. Development organizations like the Barefoot College have focused on empowering women to help these rural villages. Solar projects which brings solar-powered lights is run by the Barefoot College in Tilonia, founded by Bunker Roy in 1972 to help make Indian villagers become self-sufficient, with an emphasis on using women’s skills.
‘One Billion Voters’ campaign
Janagraha, a non-profit organization based in Bangalore has teamed up with several companies to launch a campaign called ‘One Billion Voters’. Goal it to mobilize and persuade India’s politically apathetic middle-class youth to vote in 2009’s month-long general elections. In 2004, the last general election, national turnout was 58 per cent, but in urban areas [...]
