Matthew Spacie’s Magic Bus allows poor children to play, have fun and learn life-skills
If you want to help underprivileged children play, have fun and escape the drudgery of their daily existence, Magic Bus is what you want to support. Unlike most NGOs that are engaged in the vital job of providing food, clothing, shelter and education to the underprivileged, Magic Bus adds the dimension...
Tanushree Kar finds how a caring doctor is making a dream come true for Pune-ites
Paulo Coelho, in his famous book, The Alchemist, writes about the power of dreams - if your dreams are big enough and strong enough, the whole world gets inspired to make them come true. Let us re-wind to the 1960s and take a flashback to a small town that was called Poona then. There is this tall, handsome...
A simple kit for childbirth, given directly to pregnant mothers, reduces rural maternal and child mortality, finds Dr Nita Mukherjee
The year was 1980. Indian national data published that year revealed malnutrition as an important cause of avoidable blindness in children, especially due to Vitamin A deficiency.Dr Gopa Kothari, an MD in paediatrics and community health, was then a...
