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to overview Interview Partner Asia |
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Partner India |
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 Dr.
Ashok Khosla, Founder and President, Development
Alternatives Group, New Delhi, India
“If you get seduced by interesting things
too often, you just have less time left to do the
right thing.” – how the Development
Alter-natives Group creates hundreds of thousands
of sustainable livelihoods for rural Indians and
why a former high-level UN functionary chose to
put his energy and intellect to work outside the
institutions. Read
more… |
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 Lisa
Heydlauff, Founder and CEO, Going to School,
New Delhi, India
“Going to school can be such an amazing experience,
especially in a country like India, where you find
children going to school in a tent in the middle
of mud desert or going to school in the dark with
solar lanterns.” - Going to School in India
is a celebration of what school can be, a journey
in inspiration. Read
more… |
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 Roma
Debabrata, Founder and President, STOP, New
Delhi, India
“I was searching for something more meaning-ful
my whole life, but the moment I almost got poisoned
to death while protecting one of the abused children,
I knew what I had to do for the rest of my life.”
– how Roma Debabrata’s organization
STOP works relentlessly to eradicate trafficking
of children and women. Read
more… |
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 Anumita
Roychowdhury, Associate Director (Research
and Advocacy), Center for Science and Environment
(CSE), Delhi, India
“People often try to assess you by what they
see of you in the public.” – how a young
scientist rather supports social change and why
environment is not about pretty trees. Read
more… |
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 Chetan
Sharma, Founder & Director, Datamation
& Datamation Foundation, Delhi, India
“Singing opera in front of hungry people was
never successful in history” – how Chetan
Sharma created an innovative way to alleviate social
inequalities.
Read more… |
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 Dr.
Henry Thiagaraj, Founder & Director,
Dalit Liberation Education Trust, Human Rights Education
Movement of India and the Delta Community College,
Chennai, India
“When you have all these nice things like
money and car you become superficially happy. But
what is the end result of this? Did you make the
world any better? – how the fight for human
rights for one fifth of the Indian society is not
won by just having a few sentences written in the
constitution. Read
more… |
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 Lalitha
Rajaram, Manager - Community, SIAAP, Chennai,
India
“Coming from 20 years in banking, working
with the underprivileged women of the Indian society
showed me a completely different world for the first
time in my life.” – how Lalitha tries
to support HIV/AIDS positive women to escape the
vicious circle.
Read more… |
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 Dr.
J. Jane Shanthakumari, Founder & Director,
LORD, Chennai, India
“People in India have to understand that
schizophrenia is a treatable mental illness and
not the result of evil spirits.”–
how LORD created a home for mentally ill people
and cured around 400 schizophrenic patients.
Read more…
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 Paul
Basil, Founder and CEO, Rural Innovations
Network, Chennai, India
„I did not use to understand why people would
voluntarily give money or energy away to help others.”
– how Paul learned about the great impact
development work can have and how he became an entrepreneur.
Read
more… |
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 Dr.
Govindappa Venkataswamy, (Dr. V),
Founder and Chairman, Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai,
India
„As long as people suffer, you do not retire
“ – how a 86-years old visionary gives
the gift of sight and why “McDonaldisation”
can sometime make social sense. Read
more… |
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 M.P.
Vasimalai, Founder and Executive Director,
DHAN Foundation, Madurai, India
“At the age of 26 I asked myself if I want
to make a difference to the life of many poor people
or to earn big money for myself?.” –
how Mr. Vasimalai with his team motivated and supported
highly qualified young people to make a real difference
to 300,000 poor Indian families and how successful
helping with a plan can be. Read
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 Shantharam
Shenai, Founder and Project Manager, Green
Cross Society, Mumbai, India
“Everything that is priceless should be free.”
– why a very successful electronics engineer
cares about waste and how valuable earth-worms can
be.” Read
more… |
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 Shaheen
Mistri, Founder & CEO, Akanksha Foundation,
Mumbai, India
“Why don’t I stay here in India and
do some-thing that really has an impact?”
– how Shaheen Mistri decided at the age of
eighteen to help the underprivileged children in
Mumbai and started a new way of educating them.
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 Leila
Karnik, Program Manager, Wadhwani Foundation,
Mumbai, India
“I am willing to give up my personal credit
and recognition if my work creates long-term, systemic
level change.” – how Leila Karnik helps
to push entrepreneurship in India.
Read more… |
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 Matthew
Spacie, Founder & Chairman, Magic Bus
India, Mumbai, India
“I feel blessed that I am in a position to
actually change something.” – how recreational
sports gives street kids a new chance.
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