NOIDA: HCL Foundation, social arm of HCL Technologies, a leading IT company, has announced its fourth consecutive year of the HCL Grant and invites applications from NGOs contributing towards rural development. HCL Grant recognizes the NGOs that strive for transformation through path breaking work and have good governance and institutional mechanisms.
Sending her elder daughter Manushree to an English-medium school in Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan) was a distant dream for Sushila Thakan some eight years ago. Though she had her husband’s moral support, she received little cooperation from her in-laws after she gave birth to a girl child.
To promote the spirit of womanhood, a car and two-wheeler rally was organized at Awadh Girls’ Degree College, recently. Organized by the alumnae association of the college, the rally was flagged off by Brijesh Pathak, cabinet minister, Law, Justice and Alternate Energy Resources, Namrata Pathak, former chairperson, UP Women’s Commission and a social activist, and …
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Mumbai: The Rotaract Club of Sathaye College (RCSC) has initiated its flagship project – Unnati which is a women empowerment project that aims at uplifting the lives of a group of rural women. The project is being carried out in a small village called ‘Parli’, a few kilometres ahead of Wada, Maharashtra. The project is directed …
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UN General Assembly President Miroslav Lajcak has held up Sunita Kashyap, the founder of Umang, as an example of women empowering themselves and coming up with solutions to their problems. While women face challenges, “rural women act as a major source of innovation, and ideas,” he told the inaugural session of the UN Commission on Status of Women (CSW) meeting here on …
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