The hideous footage of a blind child being beaten by the principal of his school in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh last week made me physically sick. This wasn’t just a single slap from a frustrated, [...]
The Latika Roy Foundation’s brother organization is the Peoples Science Institute – one of India’s best-known and most respected organizations in the field of environment, water [...]
A few days ago, we got news from a major, major funder that one of our most important projects would no longer be supported, and with almost immediate effect. There was a logic to the decision, [...]
Data is magic. Data is powerful. Data can change lives. Yesterday, one of our funders asked for data from across the Foundation, segregated by project and by gender. Simply: how many girls and [...]
Two weeks ago, I saw a picture of Nicholas and another man on facebook. Underneath the photo were two comments: “RIP.” and “My deepest condolences.” Wow, I thought. His [...]
Matthew, who has a mental handicap, has five brothers and sisters. The other children get quite a few treats because of him through gestures of kindness offered by local organizations. A free [...]
Whenever anything would go wrong in our early days in the Foundation, Paula would say “Never mind! Worse things happen at sea.” We were both neck-deep in the 20 volume Aubrey-Maturin [...]
Eighteen months ago, we won a prestigious grant from Sightsavers, a major UK based organization. Of 477 proposals for its Innovation Fund, ours was one of only 13 selected. The idea we had was to [...]
It goes without saying that kids with developmental disabilities need regular followup care after they’ve been assessed. But what if those kids are poor and live miles and miles away from [...]
Who knows what they are doing when they first start out? Like any young parents, we had no idea what we were taking on when we began the Latika Roy Foundation. All we knew was that the baby was [...]