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Plastic soda bottles become light source

Support — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 10:38:03 +0000

This is INNOVATION at its best !

Lighting up dark places using a soda bottle, water, bleach, sealant, and little else…

Solves a major problem, and doesn’t cost that much…

Something quite amazing about how the poor make their life a little better !

And what we usually take for granted.

Check our some of the Videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOl4vwhwkW8&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHTD_RX3J2I&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laANmQlrJHo&feature=related

Courtesy : Khushnood Viccaji

Times Social Awards

yazdi — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 04:35:15 +0000

Social Impact Awards

These awards were initiated as an attempt to encourage and honour the efforts of those who came together to fight for change. They who refused to sit back and watch. They who took the plunge and brought about Social Impact.

Social Change is on its way, are you with it?

Click Here for the Awards Website

Vote and comment now!

Dynamic folding of a paper solar cell circuit

yazdi — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:01:22 +0000

A paper solar cell circuit is dynamically folded and unfolded while the voltage is simultaneously measured on the meter. The paper photovoltaic is illuminated from below with simulated solar illumination.

Promotion of non-reversible socio-economic development

yazdi — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:57:37 +0000

International Center for Entrepreneurship and Career Development (ICECD)

The Mission

“To create a new cadre of Entrepreneurs, Managers and Specialized Professionals to foster the process of non-reversible socio-economic development on the global arena.”

ICECD has been the vanguard of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Development amongst varying target groups and has worked extensively around the globe keeping gender issues in sharp focus. It has consistently striven to increase access/control of the poor on productive resources and facilities.

The Centre’s first task was to develop women for economic activities, thus starting the process of empowerment and influencing the national policy for their development. At one time, it was the only organization in India catering to the multi-faceted needs of developing women, enabling them to set up micro – small and medium enterprises.

Click Here for their website and more info

ETASHA – to bridge the gap between ‘what is’ and ‘what can be’.

yazdi — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 12:29:05 +0000

Established as a not-for-profit organisation in January 2006, ETASHA (Enabling and Training Adolescents for Successful and Healthy Adulthood) provides market-oriented employability and vocational skills to disadvantaged Indian youth (aged 15-30 years). Our career guidance workshops and short-term training programmes equip them for entry-level jobs in the organised sector, in industries such as retail, accounting, hospitality and business process outsourcing. Unlike many vocational training providers, we aim to get them started into a career and not just a job.

Click Here for their website

Creating Job Creators

yazdi — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:55:57 +0000

ICreateInc., started in 1999, as a non-profit, in a limited locality in India, to help the disadvantaged who could not get a job and joined the ranks of unemployed or worse, I Create has now become a major movement in India with five full centers (as of December 2009) and hundreds of affiliations. Like minded people have come to the fore to support the ideal of helping the disadvantaged become job creators instead of job seekers.

I Create has developed two main streams for accomplishing the task it has undertaken: “Creating Job Creators” and “Changing the Mindset: Entrepreneurship as a Career Option”

Click Here for their website

ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth

yazdi — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 04:13:14 +0000

ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth was founded by ICICI Group to empower low-income Indians to participate in and benefit from India’s growth. Our focus on inclusive growth is grounded in the philosophy of ICICI Group and its history of partnering in the nation’s economic growth and development.

Since its inception in 2008, ICICI Foundation has taken forward
ICICI Group’s existing initiatives in the areas of primary health,
elementary education, access to finance, civil society and
environmental sustainability. In addition, ICICI Foundation works
with ICICI Group companies in the formulation and execution of
their social responsibility activities.

We would like to share with you, the various activities being carried out by the ICICI Group in the chosen fields through a periodic newsletter. To access the newsletter, click here.

Mother Earth

yazdi — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:46:43 +0000

Mother Earth believes in satisfying it’s customers while nurturing the environment and building on the strengths of marginalised rural communities to include them in sustainable livelihoods and overall prosperity.

Mrs. Gita Ram, co-founder, craft activist, mentors the company, and has been its principal social investor providing it with loans of upto 150,000 USD without collateral, at less than market interest. She is the leading light in Industree’s quest to uphold a tradition of volunteerism. This is essential to keep the balance of this venture that hopes to benefit the economically under privileged, through a for profit enterprise where often the discrepancies of free market wages, between urban management and rural producers can be quite extreme.

Neelam Chhiber is co-founder Industree, a social enterprise that connects rural producers to urban markets. Industree has obtained investment from Future Group, India’s largest retail chain to build a retail brand called Mother Earth, which is part producer owned, 14%. Industree is converging backwards to create a complete solution to fair and equitable distribution of returns from consumer to producer.

Agricultural Innovator

yazdi — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:59:29 +0000

GV RAMANJANEYULU

Agricultural Innovator

BY SOPAN JOSHII

In about 20 lakh acres of farms in 4,000 villages of Andhra Pradesh, farmers today manage crop pests without spraying pesticides.

GV Ramanjaneyulu, 37, took premature retirement from the Directorate of Oilseeds Research in Hyderabad. “I didn’t want to wait till my retirement to do the right thing,” he says.

Click Here for the full story from Tehelka

Indo-US Joint Clean Energy R&D Center

yazdi — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:51:11 +0000

Indo-US Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC) is proposed to be established under a joint initiative between the Government of India and the US Department of Energy. The center is envisaged to undertake collaborative R & D to advance clean energy technologies by teams of scientists, technologists and engineers from India and the United States, and related joint activities, needed to deploy clean energy technologies. To achieve this objective, the Indo-US JCERDC will support multi-institutional network project costs using public-private partnership model of funding support.

The initial priority areas under the Indo-US JCERDC are:

Solar Energy
Second Generation Biofuels
Energy Efficiency of Buildings

Letters of Intent to participate in the JCERDC are invited from Indian academia, research institutions and industry partners together in a consortia mode.

ELIGIBLE GROUPS

Awards will be made to a consortium with the knowledge and experience to undertake first-rate collaborative research programs. These consortia will leverage existing resources and physical infrastructure.
The application should be jointly submitted by the U.S.-Indian researchers who would be members of the Consortia based on their mutual interests, priorities and strength.

On receiving the LOI, a prestakeholder meet will be organized, following which the final call for proposal will be made. Funding will be competitively awarded through a joint review process, solely on the basis of the merit and feasibility of the final proposal.

The program will be coordinated by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India and administered through the binational Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (lUSSTF).

Submission Deadline: 26 September 2010
For more details visit: www.indousstf.org