I had fun watching this little boy trying to construct a tower from plastic blocks. It was too tall for its width and kept toppling, but he was determined. Finally, he took the [...]

The EIC runs on love and skill. Here’s Nirmala, one of our special educators, conferring with Aarti, physiotherapist and Director of the centre. I was touched by the obvious affection each [...]

I I visited the EIC this morning (this blog is really inspiring me to get away from my desk!) and watched Puja doing a new kind of speech therapy which she learned from Anne Bruce (our amazing [...]

I finally got to visit the Centre for Vocational Training this week. It’s in a beautiful new building now (rented from our friends Kusum and Baba Kanwar) and it looks wonderful. I spent some time [...]

Today Jasmine Pavri of the J R D Tata Trust came to visit us. It was her first trip to the Foundation and she was eager to see all of our projects for herself, having heard about them for several [...]

Have you heard about our second-hand shop? It’s a unique concept here in India, though a tried and true one in the West. We call ours Rainbow Resale, and we collect used clothing, books and [...]

We did it! Such chutzpah! After taking a ten-week course in fundraising, Nileshwari, Tara and I organized a two-day workshop here in Dehradun. We invited Rati Misra from the Resource Alliance, [...]

It’s Spring! Although it’s still pretty cold here in Dehradun, we’re celebrating the beginning of the end of a very long winter. Today is Basant Panchami, a wonderful day when [...]

Manju and I just got back from doing a workshop in Delhi for a group of teachers who have just been recruited for a school about to open – it’s called Step by Step and it is to be a [...]

One of the most important things we do at Karuna Vihar is help kids learn to focus. On my visit yesterday, I was amazed by Manju’s ability to bring her class of excited, distracted kids [...]