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Kickstart Cabs: Cars made for people, not roads
It’s likely that if you have a disability, getting around depends on family, someone who’s willing to guide you, drive you around, and even carry you into the vehicle if the need arises. Public...
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Karadi Path: Making a song and dance about the English language
In India, however much we debate it, knowing English or studying in an English-medium school is a way out of poverty and into a better life. So much so, that now over 20 million Indian children study...
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Social Enterprise Showcase: Transerve Technologies helps municipal bodies...
It’s not uncommon for someone to take a municipality building plan approval for 3 floors and then build 5 floors – while violating permits and evading commercial and property taxes for the floors that...
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Social Enterprise Showcase: How Greenway Grameen is going no smoke, all fire
Imagine a woman in rural India cooking. Chances are you just pictured a woman blowing at her chulha, working in an enclosed space, coughing, and her eyes smarting because of the smoke. That is not...
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By the Brine: How ‘Pickle Man’ Rawat is transforming Uttarakhand’s economy
The terraced hills of rural Uttarakhand are dotted with tiny villages nestled among the green pines of the Himalayas. Smiling women balance jugs of water on their heads, singing ‘Namaste‘ to passers...
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An offer you can’t refuse: Why toilet usage is growing as fast as Facebook...
By Tara Thomas India currently has the world’s biggest population of open defecators. By the year 2020, our government plans to achieve a goal of total sanitation for all its citizens. However, at the...
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Social Enterprise Showcase: Husk Power Systems lights up Bihar through cow...
By Neel Tamhane The situation of power availability in Bihar has never been rosy, but with the separation of Jharkhand in the year 2000, it became particularly critical, because most of the power...
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Social Enterprise Showcase: How Social Cops uses crowdsourced data to bring...
Isn’t it funny that Facebook seems to know what you want to read, but your city’s mayor doesn’t know what needs to be fixed in your city? Social Cops makes use of citizen data to make sure both the...
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Social Enterprise Showcase: Creating the demand for toilets – Gramalaya
In their earliest project, Gramalaya worked to provide hand pumps to a community whose only source of water were dug-wells. Despite their intervention, people were still at risk due to open defecation...
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