Pfizer, Indian NGO tie up on public health

Pfizer Logo US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and an Indian NGO Monday tied up to work together in the areas of public health, medical research and education with the goal of providing a better health system in India. Pfizer Inc, which is one the largest...

Muslim NGO adopts a ‘dark’ village in Delhi

In the last 62 years the Badarpur Khadar village in North-East Delhi could not see electricity. Nor road, drinking water and school. With the Delhi-based Muslim NGO Human Welfare Foundation deciding to adopt it, the village can now hope for some light. A...

Platinum II contains radioactive substance, claims NGO

A day after Platinum II reportedly got a clean chit from the Central Inspection Committee the marooned vessel is now set to get mired in another controversy. The Indian Platform for Ship Breaking (IPSB), an environmental NGO, has now begun procedures...

Doctors, NGO to provide family planning among urban poor

With nearly 21 percent of pregnancies in India unintended, a federation of gynaecologists and an NGO have come together to increase awareness on family planning and safe abortion among the urban poor in three states, including Delhi. Population Services...

Need “Readers” for Visually Challenged Students on Oct – 25

Every Sunday “Reading sessions” for visually challenged students (who are pursuing XII, B.A, B.Ed, M.A etc at various schools/colleges/universities) are being conducted at Bharat Kalachar YGP Auditorium, T.Nagar. It is organized by SAI SAMITHI...

Funding Agencies in India

A M M Foundation “Tiam House” No 28, Rajaji Salai, Chennai 600001 Mr A Arunachalam/U S Natrajan Phone : 044 – 512665 / 511591 Extn 403 Action Aid C Block Shopping Centre, Vasant Vihar New Delhi 110 057 AFPRO – Action for Food Production 25/1A,...

Govt gives NGOs rural job plan reins

CAPART Logo The government will hand over the running of the rural job scheme to a nation-wide network of NGOs, sidelining the panchayats and gram sabhas that managed the programme till now. The official explanation is the “failure of the local-level...

Action against Naxals should be consistent with human rights: Human Rights Watch

image courtesy womenofcaliber.files.wordpress.com With the government deciding to launch an all-out offensive against Naxalites next month, an international human rights body today said that the “means” to be used by security forces in the...

National Competition for Photography & Painting

Image Courtesy photography-colleges.org Saman Bachpan Abhiyan is launching a National Photography/Painting contest titled “Equal-India 2009” to raise voice against unequal opportunities for children. The idea is to involve artists, across India to...

The Relationship Between the State and the Voluntary Sector

Image courtesy bishopgsu.co.uk by John Clark Abstract In some countries, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are major contributors to development processes. This is not uniform, however. In a number of countries, NGOs are weak or play more of an oppositional...