Jo’s Blog

Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) are women selected by their own community to be trained and supported to function in their villages to improve the community’s general health. There is approximately one ASHA per thousand people in the [...]

 I just came across a post our old friend Samantha Zirkin wrote after volunteering with the Foundation as a fundraiser almost two years ago. I don’t know how I missed it! Please take a moment and read it. Sam’s time with us was a [...]

What a pleasure, what a joy to announce the great news that our own Sumita Nanda has been appointed Director, Human Resources at the Latika Roy Foundation. Everyone who has ever come in to the Foundation – be it as a neighbor, a landlord, [...]

When the Latika Roy Foundation got an opportunity to take part in the Vodafone World of Difference program as part of my Dasra Executive Education training, we said yes because we say yes to almost everything. You just never know, is my [...]

I first encountered Rahul Cherian as a quiet voice of reason in the midst of a vitriolic e-mail battle during the deliberations on the new disability bill being debated at the time here in India. Tempers were running high, accusations were being [...]