Reading time! Kids love stories and picture books are the perfect “hook” to introduce them to the world of reading. It’s a gradual process as children begin to [...]

Another reflection from Anuradha Pandey.   Kritika Rawat spends time by herself at the end of a class drawing a beautiful picture of a butterfly on a flower. This is when the kids express [...]

Anuradha Pandey is interning with the Foundation from November through mid-December. A student at Symbiosis in Pune, she is studying Media, Design and Communication. For her own documentation, [...]

“On The Inside” is a new series we are starting for volunteers, interns and consultants to share their experiences while at the Foundation. These stories will be featured here on the [...]

The Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK: National Child Health Program) had to begin somewhere. Someone had to come up with it; someone had to have had a dream – a vision of a national [...]

One of the most important things organizations like ours have to do is to review our own work – critically, dispassionately and objectively. We have to analyze what we are doing, ask [...]

Sakshi and Moy Moy. Those two girls – young women now – are inextricably linked with the history of the Foundation. They were the first students at Karuna Vihar, the only ones who [...]

Ajay Mehrotra is an optician and audiologist who runs a thriving business (Eye and Ear Care Centre) in the heart of Dehradun. In an earlier post, I described how we went to him for a hearing aid [...]

Lots of organizations construct their own buildings. They buy a piece of land, they raise the money they need and they get right to it. Not us. We bought our land nearly ten years ago. Then we [...]

Our pilot project to follow up on children whom we assessed at Gubbara is nearing completion. A vital part of the program is training a group of ASHA workers who in turn are training the ASHAs [...]