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Growing up right
August 2010
The Communication Deall (Communication Developmental Eclectic Approach to Language Learning) Trust conducts a unique, indigenously-developed programme for children with developmental language disorders | |
A sustainable ray of hope
August 2010 | Jai Wadia
The Tata trusts have been working to help improve the agricultural practices of farmers in India | |
The healing touch
July 2010 | Sangeeta Menon
Mammen Chandy, director, Tata Medical Center, talks about the goals the center aims to achieve when it opens in October 2010 | |
Bridging scientific boundaries
June 2010 | Jai Wadia
The Muktangan Exploratory Science Centre aims to foster appreciation for the sciences in young minds through the spirit of scientific discovery | |
Rooted in the wild
April 2010 | Shalini Menon
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (Atree) was established in 1996 with the vision of conserving the environment and promoting sustainable development | |
Making every drop count
March 2010
Since 2002, Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT) has supported a total of 23 community-managed watershed projects which comprise soil and water conservation works, household and irrigation water supply works, fodder development and agricultural demonstrations, and also introduce farmers to the Systems of Rice Intensification method of paddy cultivation. | |
Enabling a dream education
December 2009 | Jai Wadia
The JN Tata Endowment, since its inception in 1892, has been enabling India’s brightest minds to shine brighter | |
Charity with clarity
July 2009 | Philip Chacko
The Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Allied Trusts has been redefining itself and its funding philosophy in recent times. What has remained constant is its commitment to community and country | |
His father’s son
July 2009 | Philip Chacko
Dorab Tata was a business magnate and an aesthete, a sports lover and an altruist, but it is as the executor of Jamsetji Tata’s pioneering vision that he is best remembered | |
Where the mind is without fear
September 2008 | Meera Ashar
The Bapu Trust for Research on Mind and Discourse is striving to create a more humane mental healthcare system through advocacy and research | |
PRADAN: A helping hand
December 2007 | Jai Wadia
The Sir Ratan Tata Trust, together with the NGOs CInI and PRADAN is helping tribals in Jharkhand strengthen their existing sources of livelihood and is also exploring new avenues for their development | |
All for a cause
November 2007 | Cynthia Rodrigues
The belief that the business of business is to create wealth for the progress of the nation and the well being of the community is the fundamental principle on which the Tata Group has been built. It is this lodestar that has guided the Group’s social development | |
A happy homecoming
August 2007 | Shubha Khandekar
In keeping with its promise to the people of Nagapattinam, devastated by the killer tsunami that hit the Tamil Nadu coast in 2004, the Tata Group has helped rebuild not only their homes but also their lives | |
Beyond warp and weft
July 2007 | Shubha Khandekar
By weaving new designs and corporate learnings into an age-old tradition, Dastkar Andhra has successfully infused new life into weavers' communities and empowered them to have a stronger standing in modern markets | |
A second chance
July 2007 | Jai Wadia
The Foundation for Education and Development through its Doosra Dashak project is changing the lives of millions of adolescents in rural Rajasthan | |
Breaking new ground
July 2007 | Shubha Khandekar
Jan Swasthya Sahyog is responding to the healthcare challenges in rural India. An innovative approach and sustained intervention is the key to its success | |
For their tomorrows
July 2007 | Shama A Kasbekar
The Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT), one of the oldest, non-sectarian philanthropic organisations in India, celebrates 75 years of dedication to nation-building activities. The trustees of the SDTT have always maintained that the real heroes are the people who work on the field, with the community, for the community, at the grassroots | |
Water of life
July 2007 | Jai Wadia
The Sadguru Foundation shows by example that grassroots-level developmental programmes work best when the NGO bridges the community-government gap | |
Movement among the grassroots
July 2007 | Candida Moraes
Over the past 25 years, SRUTI’s Fellows have been developing community initiatives to leverage a better life for the marginalised sections of our society | |
A rural revolution
July 2007 | Jai Wadia
Pathbreaking work by TISS is dramatically altering one area of Maharashtra's rural landscape. Both faculty and students of the TISS School of Rural Development have initiated a series of measures that could change life in the villages forever | |
Building a new life
October 2006 | Candida Moraes
Nirman, an NGO supported by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, is working to improve the lot of construction workers through skill development, health and education programmes | |
Three Rs for a smile
October 2006 | Jai Wadia
Muskaan, with the help of the Sir Ratan Tata Trust, is rehabilitating children in the urban slums of Bhopal through holistic, sustainable and collaborative initiatives | |
Giving wing to young imaginations
July 2006 | Jai Wadia
Sutradhar, supported by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, is making learning fun for young children by integrating traditional materials with innovative new teaching techniques | |
The cycle of life
June 2006 | Jai Wadia
In the backward tribal hamlets of Jharkhand, the Child In Need Institute is working to nurture a healthier, happier new generation | |
A feeling for healing
March 2006
Funded by Tata Trusts, the Foundation for the Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions is recording, examining and reviving traditional medicinal practices, to preserve and systematise India's indigenous medical knowledge systems | |
Beyond the bounds of gender
December 2005
The Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan (KMVS), with assistance from the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, has made the tribal women of Gujarat the pilots of their own destiny with its empowerment initiatives | |
Hills of hope
November 2005 | Chirag Kasbekar
The degeneration of their natural environment has caused the people of the western Himalayas great hardship. The Himmothan Pariyojana, a partnership between the Sir Ratan Tata Trust and a number of committed grassroots organisations, is an important attempt to revitalise these communities through a multidisciplinary effort | |
Rising after the deluge
October 2005 | Cynthia Rodrigues
The July 2005 Mumbai floods wreaked havoc on the city and its people. In response, various Tata Group organisations have come together to offer a helping hand to those affected by the devastation | |
Building homes, building lives
September 2005 | Shubha Madhukar
Nine months after the tsunami struck, TRC's reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts are still going strong | |
Each according to ability
April 2005
Of the initiatives sustained by the Tata Relief Committee in tsunami-hit Tamil Nadu, what is indeed commendable is the way in which different Tata enterprises have pooled disparate skills to actualise a common aim | |
Getting started
April 2005
Drawing on people and resources from across the Group, the Tata Relief Committee has been working overtime to help rehabilitate those devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami | |
Immediate relief
April 2005
TRC's efforts in the tsunami-hit districts of Tamil Nadu has helped battered people get back on their feet | |
The people story
April 2005
Volunteers worked overtime to help in the distribution of relief material in the tsunami-hit districts of Tamil Nadu. According to Capt Rao, "The Tata Group is the only corporate house that is still working in the region." | |
Permanent rehabilitation
April 2005
Permanent rehabilitation of those devastated by the tsunami was the biggest challenge, which meant not just undoing the damage done, but improving the quality of life of the affected. The Tata Relief Committee clearly understood this imperative | |
The collector's testimonial
April 2005 | J Radhakrishnan
"Taking up relief at ground zero of the tsunami is that much more challenging, but TRC has shown staying power and has been accepted by the community." | |
Wave of relief
April 2005 | Cynthia Rodrigues
The Tata initiative to help India's tsunami victims was directed through the Tata Relief Committee — the vehicle through which the collective resources of the Group are used to organise relief in the wake of natural disasters | |
Cracking the culture of silence
March 2005 | Chirag Kasbekar
Anandi's endeavours in rural Gujarat have given voice to marginalised women, helping them demolish gender barriers and build more meaningful lives | |
Minstrel in the mountains
March 2005 | Shifra Menezes
The inequities inflicted by poverty have placed a heavy burden on people and land in the Himalayas. The Pan Himalayan Grassroots Development Foundation has been working overtime to lighten this load | |
We shall overcome
March 2005 | Shobha Ramswamy
Help, rather than handouts, is the idea powering Saath Saath, an innovative initiative that provides productive work to young adults with disabilities | |
From rehab to rebirth
December 2004 | Sherna Gandhy
The Tata Relief Committee's initiative to help those devastated by the Gujarat earthquake is a shining example of altruism, partnership and commitment | |
Candle in the dark
December 2004 | Philip Chacko
Arth's efforts to deliver healthcare in Rajasthan have been a panacea for poor communities battling to cope with disease and debilitation | |
Hope in the hills
December 2004 | Shobha Ramswamy
The appropriately named Atree has been working with the Soliga tribal community to reverse the damage done to the ecologically fragile BR Hills region near Mysore | |
A matter of minds
December 2004 | Shobha Ramswamy
Compassion and professional expertise form the balm that Banyan applies to nurture homeless mentally ill women back to normality | |
Rekindling the lamp of learning
December 2004 | Philip Chacko
The Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samithi is back on track with its social transformation crusade, a remarkable endeavour that has lifted 140 million Indians out of illiteracy | |
The case for civility
December 2004 | Philip Chacko
The target is youth and the change agent is the Centre for Civil Society, an unusual organisation that is stretching every sinew to unshackle India from the bureaucratic chains | |
Spinning success
December 2004 | Arati Carroll
Weaving cooperatives in Andhra Pradesh have found a friend in Dastkar, an organisation that is employing innovative marketing strategies to reinvigorate the handloom heritage | |
Succour for soldiers
December 2004 | Shama Anjali Kasbekar
The Tata Defence Welfare Corpus, set up in the wake of the Kargil war, helps Indian soldiers maimed in combat rebuild their lives, thus repaying, in some small measure, the debt of gratitude we owe our fighting men | |
Wealth in our villages
December 2004 | Saloni Meghani
Why should the poor be deprived of the best expertise? The Dhan Foundation believes that rural development requires a professional approach rather than a do-gooder mentality | |
Getting out of the woods
December 2004 | Chirag Kasbekar
Community forestry has proven to be a powerful tool in the preservation and regeneration of India's fast-diminishing forest tracts. Thanks to backing from the Dorabji Tata Trust, this concept now has an improved chance of succeeding | |
Oasis rising
December 2004
Icrisat's 'small is beautiful' approach and partnership methodology have sown the seeds of agrarian renewal in many semi-arid regions in India and elsewhere | |
Sight to behold
December 2004 | Shobha Ramswamy
The Tata Agricultural and Rural Training Centre for the Blind does much more than provide vocational training to sightless students. It heals their spirit and instills in them the vision to take on the world | |
Water way to go
December 2004 | Chirag Kasbekar
The water warriors of the Tata Water Policy Research Programme, a partnership involving the International Water Management Institute and the Sir Ratan Tata Trust, are fighting to avert a water catastrophe in India | |
The pink of rural healthcare
December 2004 | Shubha Madhukar
Medical treatment used to spell debt or death for the tribal communities of Bilaspur district before the Jan Swasthya Sahyog began bringing health and hope to the beleaguered | |
Closing the learning chasm
December 2004 | Ashwin Tombat
A dedicated group of educationists in Goa is helping children with learning difficulties keep up with their peers in school — and rediscover their self-esteem | |
Songs of redemption
December 2004 | Shama Anjali Kasbekar
Prayas, an organisation that works with under-trial prisoners and within the criminal justice system, is bringing a bit of sunshine into previously bleak lives | |
Giving the good earth a chance
December 2004 | Cynthia Rodrigues
Rural Communes, a voluntary organisation, has struck a chord with its bid to turn the clock back on environmental disaster in Maharashtra's Raigad district | |
The comfort of strangers
December 2004 | Shobha Ramswamy
Saathi, a non-governmental organisation supported by the Sir Ratan Tata Trust, has arranged happy homecomings for numerous lost and runaway children | |
The tais of Parinche
December 2004 | Sherna Gandhy
Semi-literate women spreading the healthcare message — that's the approach in an innovative project run by the Foundation for Research in Community Health | |
Sturdy when wet
December 2004 | Shobha Ramswamy
Water was a scarce commodity in the Bhoire-Khurd village before a non-governmental organisation supported by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust stepped in to save the day | |
Surviving life
October 2004 | Sudipta Basu
Support from the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and the JRD Tata Trust is helping two institutions in Mumbai lend a caring hand to the mentally disabled and the elderly | |
Of moos and embryos
September 2004 | Cynthia Rodrigues
The BAIF Development Research Foundation, with support from the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, is translating the message of rural development into action | |
Under the shade of the Banyan
June 2004
Banyan’s unstinting efforts, is putting a smile on the faces of several Nirmalas, giving them a life beyond the confines of mental illness, and ensuring that society accepts them once again as normal women | |
No place like home
February 2004 | Shobha Ramswamy
For the homeless and lost child on the railway platforms, Sathi is a real friend | |
Making a water mark
September 2003 | Shobha Ramswamy
Thanks to the WOTR efforts in Bhoire-Khurd, the rain-shadow region of Ahmednagar water has brought in a revolution | |
Communing with nature
July 2003 | Cynthia Rodrigues
The Dorabji Tata Trust is supporting Rural Communes, a voluntary organisation, in helping villages in Maharashtra's Raigad district turn the clock back on environmental disaster | |
A matter of trusts
February 2002 | RM Lala
A substantial part of the profits of Tata Sons, the parent company of the Tata Group, goes to the Tata trusts, which in turn have established national institutions of research and learning, and financed a host of projects. RM Lala profiles the personalities behind some of these trusts | |
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