Aamara Biswas Women Helping Women Through Nano Finance Institution Joyasree (Ranu) Mahanti August, 2008 1. Introduction After 10 years of working closely with the people of Orissa (in both rural and urban areas, eastern and western parts),listening carefully to the women in need, traveling to rural villages, seeing the living Read more…
We are working to create the “Brahmapur Children’s Library” concept in collaboration with Jagannath Jogadham organization at Berhampur, Odisha. You can help us procure books for this non-profit, public library. http://blog.prathambooks.org/ http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/notalists/ncb http://www.reading.org/resources/booklists/childrenschoices.aspx http://www.scholastic.com/resources/collection/childrens-book-award-winners-for-2012/ A brief site visit report on a library we are trying to build up Read more…
Illumination efficiency of fuel-based lights (such as kerosene lanterns) has been observed to be >100 times lower than the solid-state WLED lights. It’s estimated that fuel-based lighting is responsible for annual energy consumption of 77 billion liters of fuel worldwide at a cost of $38 billion/year or $77 per household. Read more…
Khan Academy is a wonderful internet resource for students in the USA. But how do we bring it to the teeming millions of the world that do not have access to the Internet? This is the genesis of an experiment that we have started in over a handful places in Read more…