AS girls continue to play second fiddle in India, in 2008 the government earmarked today, January 24, as National Girl Child Day to create awareness about the inequalities and gender discrimination faced by female children in India. It also aims to highlight the importance of their education, health, and nutrition as well as creating a safe and healthy environment for the girl child.
5 questions to ask before you donate to NGOs in India
From finding a genuine nonprofit organization to determining whether online giving is safe, there are several challenges throughout the donation process. GiveIndia is aware of these difficulties and seeks to remedy them. Here’s a charity checklist for when you donate to NGOs in India. Use it to ensure your donation benefits those in need of support!
Why can’t NGOs be more business-like?
HOW often have you heard that non-profits need to be “more business like”? Or witnessed the awe that greets people who cross over from the private sector to a job in an NGO? Despite the global financial meltdown, relentless reports of corporate malfeasance and catastrophic breakdowns in governance at some of the most respected businesses,…
The Giving Calendar 2021
Use GiveIndia’s guide to plan your company’s social impact activities for the year JUST about everything and everyone has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey conducted by GiveIndia in October 2020 revealed that India’s appetite for giving has radically increased during the coronavirus crisis, with 85% of those surveyed conveying a heightened desire…
10 reasons why vaccinations are important for our health
As inoculation programmes against COVID-19 begin, a checklist for better understanding THROUGHOUT our lives, we are exposed to a number of viruses, bacteria and other microbes. Some of these microbes benefit us while others cause diseases that could result in severe illness, disability or even death. Our body’s immune system protects us against several infections…
5 top NGOs empowering the youth of India
On National Youth Day, celebrating those who hold the future of the nation in their hands SWAMI Vivekananda is one of India’s greatest thinkers. He is particularly remembered as the torchbearer for the youth, saying: “Youth is the future. My faith is in the younger generation.” Today, January 12, his birth anniversary, is celebrated as…
Medical fundraiser helps teen weightlifting champion win at life
Crowdfunding to support health emergencies can be real life savers
10 New Year resolutions to reverse climate change
All of us can do something to address the most vital issue of our time THE United Nations recently declared that we are facing a climate emergency capable of ruining our environment and threatening human existence. Such a future will soon become reality if governments do not take swift and powerful action to reverse climate…
Why can’t we care for elders who nurtured us?
Aged persons don’t deserve to be neglected, abused or abandoned THE essential values of Indian culture and tradition are learnt through families. Throughout our childhood we are taught to respect elders and gestures such as touching their feet are practised out of respect. Even now, joint family systems exist and are valued where three or…
Celebrate Kisan Diwas and support our farmers
Give back to food growers on whom our lives depend TENS of thousands of Indian farmers have been gathering near the national capital in the last few weeks to protest against new agricultural laws. At the root of their anger is the distrust of market reforms. They fear losing their already dwindling incomes and their…