18-year-old Ashwini Dandore lives with her mother, father and two siblings in a small, kachcha house in Madhya Pradesh’s Khadla village. Eldest daughter of a farmer and chilli seller, Aswhini wants to be a role model for her siblings so that they too can dream big and work towards achieving their goals. As for her,…
In Smartpur Kanchipuram, a meeting was initiated with the Tamil Nadu Animal Husbandry Department to understand the condition of livestock in villages. On March 30, a one-day training on livestock rearing was organised in Chamarajanagar, Karnataka to help diagnose the prevalent diseases as well. In Rajasthan’s Ardooka, DEF’s on-going campaign #NoMissingVoters was also conducted in…
Internet was introduced in Bhutan in 1999 by the progressive fourth King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck. 1999 to 2008 was a period when there was only one operator, Bhutan Telecom. Internet rates and mobiles were expensive and only rich people could afford it. Today, the usage of social media has rapidly grown in the…
On the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2019, Technology Empowering Girls (TeG) was launched in three districts of Telangana in an effort to end the gender technology gap and empower women and adolescent girls to create innovative solutions to advance equality of their lives and in turn their communities. TeG is an…
#LahuKaLagaan is a global campaign for tax-free sanitary napkins that was launched in 2017 to support SheSays India’s worldwide campaign for the same, which was started in 2016. The awareness campaign was successful in breaking several taboos associated with menstruation and making it a mainstream topic of conversation among the masses and in media. The…
Meenakshi Batra CEO CAF India Mobile phone is one of the defining technologies of the 21st century. It is emerging as a key driver in India by contributing significantly to our GDP growth. In fact, the potential it possesses in achieving socio-economic growth is unprecedented. The access to mobile services and low-cost smartphones has created…
Like Nitika and her brother Himanshu from Tipli, many children from remote villages in Uttarakhand get limited or no access to education. Poor financial circumstances and lack of proper counselling often force them to drop out of schools. Very few get to attend colleges. Their father, an MGNREGA wage earner, is the sole bread-winner. With…
Keeping in mind the increasing vitality of fake news, misinformation and disinformation, DEF in partnership with WhatsApp, has been conducting awareness workshops benefiting the law-enforcement officials and the university students. At the end of the first leg of these workshops, on February 14-15, 2019, a two-day Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop was conducted with the…
At only 19-years of age, Radha runs her own small tailoring unit. She lives in Silot village of Madhya Pradesh, a region habited by tribal communities. In a family of five, Radha shares her home with her parents, two younger sisters, a younger brother and an older sister. She wanted to be a nurse when…
The idea to build a smart village (Smartpur) shapes up holistically when the viable stakeholders come together for over-all development purposes. On February 03, 2019, in Nuh, a similar visit was held by Rotary Club where they conducted a free eye health camp in association with City Hospital and Nuh’s Eye Care Center. On February…