Meghalaya: How this IAS officer is giving govt schools a new life
East Mojo
Dec 29 2018
https://www.eastmojo.com/news/2018/12/29/meghalaya-how-this-ias-officer-is-giving-govt-schools-a-new-life Read more
Meghalaya IAS Officer Wins Hearts, Donates 2 Months’ Salary To Renovate School!
The Better India
Dec 26 2018
“We must all chip in. I request all readers to #AdoptASchool anywhere near them, and to transform the future of its students,” says Swapnil Tembe. #Respec Read more
Help Rahendra to fight against Angiosarcoma
Meghalaya Guardian
Dec 26 2018
Bed no:26 male ward, 3rd floor, ENT dept. Guwahati medical college and hospital is the address of Rahendra Tripura, 25 Read more
Xmas gift for West Garo Hills kids: A new-look school
The Telegraph
Dec 24 2018
If the festival of lights ignited hope, the season of merriment brought fulfilment. A crowd-funding campaign initiated during Diwali to renovate the dilapidated building of the Songadinggre Lower Primary School in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills has resulted in a new look for it, just before Christmas. Read more
Help Rahendra to fight against Angiosarcoma
The Assam Post
Dec 24 2018
Bed no:26 male ward, 3rd floor, ENT dept. Guwahati medical college and hospital is the address of Rahendra Tripura, 25 Read more
For philanthropy, age is just a number
Forbes India
Dec 24 2018
Teenagers crowdfunding for social causes or innovations are taking people closer to everyday philanthropy, one digital campaign at a time. Read more
19 in 2019
The New Indian Express
Dec 23 2018
A recap of 2019 newsmakers who displayed exemplary courage and compassion, innovation and hard work Read more
Online world stretches helping hand to Kerala's rural areas
Chandrika
Dec 23 2018
Kerala's rural areas get the support of the online world. Novel way of collecting funds online for an array of charity activities is the new trend in states' rural areas. This movement got momentum when Milaap, the crowdfunding platform, functioning at all India level commenced its activities in Kerala too. Beneficiaries of this initiative spreads through out the districts, from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasargod. Read more
"In it to fight problems worthy of an attack"
LinkedIn
Dec 18 2018
The fact that we can stand between life and death and say that, 'Ok, had we not been there, the outcome may have been different', is the biggest validation! Not that everywhere we can do something. Sometimes, money doesn't solve the problem. But the victories definitely make the fight worth it. Read more
Giving them wings to fly
Sakal Times
Dec 17 2018
Malwadi, a slum located near Hadapsar, Pune, is home to 1000+ families and 1500+ children, most of whom attend a local school. While slum children and youngsters have similar dreams and aspirations as economically-privileged youngsters, they neither have the environment nor the opportunities to take them forward. Read more
Pride for all: This year's Pride Parade month to celebrate repeal of Section 377
DNA
Dec 17 2018
India's first LGBT+ choir will be singing at Mahalaxmi, on January 27. The event that will be held during the Pride Parade month is special since the theme this year is "Pride for All." The Supreme Court struck down Section 377 in September, thereby holding up that sex between consulting adults of the same gender is not a crime. The choir will be singing songs tailored around the theme and the concert has been aptly named "Aazaadiyan". The choir is called "Rainbow Voices Mumbai." Read more
My Father Needed a Liver. Did It Have to Be From Me?
New York Times
Dec 15 2018
KOLKATA, India — In the spring I found myself in the position of being my father’s potential liver donor. Although he had steadfastly refused a transplant, he had slipped into a sickness so severe that my mother and I feared we might lose him. I am his only child and our blood groups are compatible. Between taking him to endless medical appointments, I began undergoing my own transplant work-up — the long and expensive series of tests to ascertain my fitness to be a donor. Read more
A Room Of One's Own
Mid-day
Dec 14 2018
City-based artist and activist Aqui Thami is on a mission to establish a permanent physical space for women authors in Bandra Read more
Model Citizen: Proud ‘father’ to 47 HIV positive children
DT Next
Dec 11 2018
Having had no children even after eight years of marriage, Solomon Raj and his wife decided to adopt a child. However, they wanted to do it differently. Read more
गाजा साइक्लोन से तो हम बच गए, लेकिन जीने के लिए कुछ नहीं बचा
Quint Hindi
Dec 07 2018
करीब 3 बजे रहे थे, साइक्लोन आने के करीब 11 घंटे पहले का समय. मैं एक मछुआरे के साथ पिछले साल नवंबर में आए साइक्लोन के उसके अनुभव को रिकॉर्ड कर रहा था. मैं उस दौरान एक लोकल कम्युनिटी रेडियो के लिए काम कर रहा था और इस रिकॉर्डिंग के जरिए लोगों को साइक्लोन से सचेत करना चाहता था. रिकॉर्डिंग पूरा होने के दो मिनट के भीतर ही वहां का माहौल बदलना शुरू हो गया. Read more
Family of Young Indian American Kshiti Karthikeyan Seeking Help to Fight Her Leigh Syndrome Diagnosis
India West
Dec 04 2018
Karthikeyan Subramaniam, of Jersey City, New Jersey, has approached crowd funding sites to seek the public’s help with donations to help his 2-year-old daughter battle a rare disease she has been diagnosed with. Read more
I Survived Cyclone Gaja, But My Village Will Take a While to Heal
The Quint
Dec 04 2018
It was almost 3 pm, 11 hours before the cyclone hit, when I finished recording a video of a fisherman narrating his experience of the cyclone last November. Two minutes into the video, and the clouds started bursting. I packed my camera and, along with the fishermen, ran into the nearest shelter. "It's going to be huge," I thought. One of the fishermen replied, "we are used to it." Read more
You just can’t afford to be sick
Hindu Business Line
Dec 03 2018
When patients exhaust their savings and health insurance and still have to pay, they have nowhere to go,” he says, and “that’s where crowdfunding comes in.” Read more
Milaap activities spread in Kerala
Metro Vaartha
Nov 30 2018
Milaap's activities are now spread across Kerala. Various donation activities are being fulfilled by Milaap. People from Thrissur, Kochi, Malappuram, and Thiruvananthapuram have used Milaap as their fundraising platfrom for their financial needs. Majority of these were for cancer treatments and organ transplantation. Read more
Milaap activities spread in Kerala
Siraj
Nov 30 2018
Milaap's activities are now spread across Kerala. Various donation activities are being fulfilled by Milaap. People from Thrissur, Kochi, Malappuram, and Thiruvananthapuram have used Milaap as their fundraising platfrom for their financial needs. Majority of these were for cancer treatments and organ transplantation. Read more
Mysuru region taps online crowdsourcing for medical care
Nyoooz
Nov 27 2018
The number of residents from Mysuru and nearby districts opting for online crowdfunding is on the rise Read more
Crowdfunding for medical expenses on the rise in Mysuru
Prajavani
Nov 27 2018
The number of residents from Mysuru opting for online crowdfunding to raise funds for medical expenses has seen an increase. According to statistics made available from India’s leading crowdfunding portal Milaap, the percentage of medical fundraisers has increased from 24 per cent in 2016 to 40 per cent in 2018 (to date). Read more
Mysuru region taps online crowdsourcing for medical care
The Finreviewer
Nov 27 2018
The number of residents from Mysuru and nearby districts opting for online crowdfunding is on the rise Read more
Mysuru region taps online crowdsourcing for medical care
Financial Examiner
Nov 27 2018
The number of residents from Mysuru and nearby districts opting for online crowdfunding is on the rise Read more
Mysuru region taps online crowdsourcing for medical care
Times of India
Nov 27 2018
The number of residents from Mysuru and nearby districts opting for online crowdfunding is on the rise Read more
Mysuru region taps online crowdsourcing for medical care
EN Bulletin
Nov 27 2018
The number of residents from Mysuru and nearby districts opting for online crowdfunding is on the rise Read more
Mysuru region taps online crowdsourcing for medical care
ZTribune
Nov 27 2018
The number of residents from Mysuru and nearby districts opting for online crowdfunding is on the rise Read more
Crowdfunding for medical expenses on the rise in Mysuru
Udayakala
Nov 24 2018
The number of residents from Mysuru opting for online crowdfunding to raise funds for medical expenses has seen an increase. According to statistics made available from India’s leading crowdfunding portal Milaap, the percentage of medical fundraisers has increased from 24 per cent in 2016 to 40 per cent in 2018 (to date). Read more
Solace to console
Metrovaartha (Kochi life)
Nov 24 2018
The name Solace and Sheeba Ameer are not new to the charity arena. Sheeba Ameer is a renowned charity activist who helps the financially backward cancer patients. While opening the Solace center at Thrissur, she dreamt of taking care of the children who suffered from cancer. Ameer, her husband also stood beside her. The number of patients went on increasing. Not only cancer patients but those diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy and Thalassemia also approached Solace. Around 15 lakh rupees are spent by Solace per month to carry out various surgeries, chemotherapy and the like. The number of people working for Solace also increased. Solace has its centers set up at Kochi, Kozhikode, Malappuram, and Pattambi along with the one at Thrissur.
Ahanya Needs to Overcome the pain so that she can smile
Kerala Kaumudhi
Nov 22 2018
Ahanya and her family are in a difficult phase of their lives. Things began when Ahanya was caught by an incurable fever. Later on, Ahanya was diagnosed with Sojia. There is no medicine that can cure the disease but a Rs 14000 injection and Rs 6000 worth medicines can reduce the severe pain caused due to the disease. The injection and the medicines are to be taken every month. Read more
2-year-old Ayaan needs the help of kind-hearted people
Mathrubhumi UAE
Nov 21 2018
In a last-ditch attempt to save the life of his son, Kasargod resident Shuaib is looking for help from kind-hearted people. Shuaib moved to Sharjah in 2007, and had been working as a helper in a computer shop in Sharjah for ten year Read more
Milaap: Extending a helping hand in treating the poor
Kalakaumudhi
Nov 21 2018
Milaap, the country's largest crowd funding platform, that aids the poor and needy for medical treatment, expands its activities in Kerala too. Company's crowd funding platform gives space and extends its support to the people who face unexpected challenges in life. Online crowd funding which is very popular outside India got its momentum when the state govt. also entered in the field. Milaap had initiated a flood relief collection drive on its own before the state govt. mooted the idea. With more than 300 fund raisers coming up with 232 projects, Milaap has already collected Rs.1.82 cr Read more
Crowdfunding to the aid of poor patients in Mysuru
The Hindu
Nov 21 2018
The digital phenomenon of crowdfunding appears to have come to the aid of many poor patients in Mysuru. About 40% of the estimated 150 fundraisers from Mysuru are for medical expenses by people, who are unable to afford the rising costs of life-saving treatment. Read more
Seek and you shall get
The New Indian Express
Nov 19 2018
Crowdfunding is changing the way people are realising their dreams, and how! Apart from raising money for medical treatments, more and people are turning to this mode to raise money for projects close to their heart. Whether you are contesting elections or saving a community radio service, like-minded people are using the Internet to spread the word and contribute to causes they identify with. Read more
Bothered by high medical expenses? Try crowdfunding, its a good platform for the needy
MoneyControl
Nov 15 2018
In the last three years, crowdfunding has become one of the primary ways to meet medical costs, especially if the amount is north of Rs 10 lakh. Read more
These Kids who are out of the system have received a new lease of life through Kaliyuva Mane
Hello Mysore
Nov 15 2018
Established in 1999, ‘Kaliyuva Mane’ is a special school for underprivileged children. In August 1992, staying in a village, Ananth Kumar, the founder of ‘Kaliyuva Mane’ started teaching the rural poor children. This school is a place where dropouts, child labourers, children from traumatic backgrounds, children from broken families and underprivileged children are getting a chance to live and are able to start new lives all over again. Read more
Teachers turn drivers to save school in DK
Deccan Herald
Nov 14 2018
Two teachers at Darul Islam Aided Higher Primary School double as drivers ferrying children to school and back, making as many as 3 trips in the morning and evening. Read more
Digital crowdfunding emerges as an alternative financing option for cancer care
BioVoice
Nov 14 2018
Cancer is becoming one of the major causes for death in India. According to the cancer registry released by the Indian Council of Medical Research, cancer is estimated to increase by 25 per cent by 2020. Around 2.5 million people in India are living with this disease and every year more than 7 lakh new cancer patients are registered from which 5, 56,400 die Read more
Kaliyuva Mane takes baby steps towards inclusive growth
Deccan Herald
Nov 13 2018
With a view to ensure the welfare and development of children, inclusive welfare and inclusive development have become key words for many organizations Read more
DIRECTOR SHANKARLING SUGNALLI BATTLING FOR LIFE
Chitraloka
Nov 12 2018
Director Shankarling Sugnalli is battling for his life after a severe bout of H1N1 attack. The swine-flu has destroyed the 54-year-old director's lungs and debilitated his body. It has resulted in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. He is being treated at the BGS Hospital and is in need of acute treatment. Read more
Milaap raises funds for bone cancer patient
NewsHunt
Nov 11 2018
The biopsy revealed that Nadeem was suffering from a high-grade bone cancer called osteosarcoma. Read more
Milaap raises funds for bone cancer patient
Deccan Chronicle
Nov 11 2018
The biopsy revealed that Nadeem was suffering from a high-grade bone cancer called osteosarcoma. Read more
Selfless Sister Act: How Priyanka T gave more than half her liver to save her sister's life
Edex Live
Nov 09 2018
Twenty five-year-old Sindhu had been diagnosed with drug-induced liver damage and the only remedy was to get a liver transplant Read more
Social media impact is continuous: VVS Laxman
Hans India
Nov 09 2018
Social media has been making impact every minute all over the world, said former cricketer VVS Laxman while speaking at an interactive session at the Social Media Summit Amaravati 2018 organised by the Andhra Pradesh Tourism Authority here on Friday. The summit will conclude on Saturday. Read more
Crowdfunding bid to revive Meghalaya school
The Telegraph
Nov 08 2018
Spurred by CM's donation, IAS officer leads effort on Milaap for Songadingre lower primary school Read more
Meghalaya bureaucrat leads crowdfunding campaign to renovate West Garo Hills school
Northeast Now
Nov 08 2018
Bureaucrat Swapnil Tambe is taking a leaf out of the book of Chief Minister Conrad Sangma who donated Rs 3.14 lakh for renovation of a school in West Khasi Hills Read more
Every Sunday This Doctor and His Team Treat 700-1200 Patients — Free of Cost
FaithWire
Nov 07 2018
For the last 44 years, Dr. Ramana Rao has cured or treated over two million people in India — at no cost. Dr. Rao is the physician for a clinic in Bangalore, India, which also happens to be the oldest free clinic in the world. Read more
Social Media summit & awards programmes to be held on Nov 9, 10
Business Standard
Nov 07 2018
SMSA is a massive national movement started in 2017 connecting people, content creators and conversations around emerging trends in media, importantly social media which is now one of world's biggest medium to communicate, promote and develop individually as a community. For more information, visit: https://www.smsummit.in/ . Read more
44 let brezplačno zdravi revne
Slovenske Novice
Nov 07 2018
Dolgih 44 let vodi dobrotnik dr. Ramana Rao v Bangaloru v Indiji brezplačno kliniko za reveže. Vsako nedeljo vse od leta 1974 odpre vrata ambulante in ponuja zdravstveno oskrbo obubožanim. Sprva je k njemu prihajala le peščica, danes pa oskrbi med 700 in 1200 bolnikov na dan. Tako veliko jih seveda ne bi zmogel oskrbeti sam, pomaga mu ekipa 35 ljudi, tudi njegova žena in dva sinova, ki sta prav tako zdravnika. Read more
Social Media summit & awards programmes to be held on Nov 9, 10
Daily Hunt
Nov 07 2018
SMSA is a massive national movement started in 2017 connecting people, content creators and conversations around emerging trends in media, importantly social media which is now one of world's biggest medium to communicate, promote and develop individually as a community. For more information, visit: https://www.smsummit.in/ . Read more
