Unconventional approach to AIDS control
Voluntary groups in Madras are taking up the onus of increasing AIDS awareness among various groups including students, blue-collar workers and …
Ridding Delhi's brothels of HIV
An organisation of sex workers struggles to combat the spread of AIDS in Delhi's red-light areas.
Bringing up parents
Norway's young eco-cletectives are the youngest environmentalists anywhere, and have an octopus as their club mascot
All workers unite
...especially in the gigantic unorganised sector, and suddenly the labour fringe becomes the mainstream
Turning a new reef
Once liquour-sodden, the fisherfolk of a Kerala village are replacing destroyed natural reefs with artificial ones
Till joys
Women in 3 districts in Tamil Nadu discover how to make money and ban booze -- for the first time
Living on a minefield
Plans to set up lignite and China clay mines in the biologically diverse and rich Madayipara plateau of Kerala's Kannur district has its …
Together we stand
Will the National Alliance of People's Movements be a whiff of Fresh air blowing in winds of change, reforming the way the country views development?
An urban dream
Goans come together to protect the irreplaceable rain trees of Panaji against a callous government
A tale of two villages beguiled by JRY
The panchayats of Sonrai in Uttar Pradesh and Palana in Rajasthan share a Jawahar Rozgar Yojana experience. Both ignored the water needs of the …
Money for nothing?
A revolutionary system of trade, the LETSystem, helps communities meet their requirements without depending on hard cash
Joy of learning can be a pain
Children fell victim to organisational inefficiency and indifference at the National Joy of Learning Festival held recently in the Capital
The roots of prosperity
The woods march back to barren forest department land as villagers in Gujarat's Panchmahals district grab the spade
Banking on thrift and credit
Cooperative banks initiated with assistance from an NGO in the Capital have plucked slumdwellers out of the red
Counting on origami
The Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes empowers tribals with the knowledge of mathematics
Literacy on the move
A programme to provide education to the nomadic Gujjars is showing encouraging results and also checking their exploitation
Tubelights give more than light to labs
Used tubelights can now be recycled into laboratory apparatus that are cheap and as good as those available in the market.
A bank to save the embarrassment of riches
Surplus food from hotels in the Capital is no longer thrown away: A non-profit organisation that started recently collects the food and …
Home is where AIDS care is in Uganda
Instead of treating AIDS patients in hospitals, an organisation in Uganda is effectively extending health care to them in their own homes
Teaching children they will inherit the earth
In Nepal, camps for making children more environmentally conscious are proving increasingly popular. And in many families it's the …
Family plot
Timely practices of mulching, watering and pruning have allowed the Kachares to thrive on "barren" ground
Caught between boars and bureaucracy
Authorities of a wildlife sanctuary propose to curb the menace of rampaging wild boars by providing affected villagers with, among other things, …
Powering people
Proliferating grassroots level activity in Orissa is empowering villagers, taking them closer to a fairytale end to unending tales of poverty and …
What car is this anyway?
Can a pumpset metamorphose into a motor vehicle? Somewhere out there in Haryana,they call this smoke-belching, spit-and-gum contraption a Maruta
Cleaning up the frontyard
Some Delhi residents tackle the Capital's mountainous garbage problem as civic authorities apathetically look on