How is COVID-19 affecting the Social Sector?
Navigating work from home and the new normal these past few months has been difficult for everyone. The social sector,
Read moreNavigating work from home and the new normal these past few months has been difficult for everyone. The social sector,
Read moreIn the next story of GoBarefootRealHeroes we are sharing an inspiring story of Subhankar. “Hello. I am Subhankar from Lantern Edusports Foundation. We work with the school leaders and teachers in the underprivileged communities of Maharashtra. While growing up, I always felt that I was privileged to get where I was, considering that my mother was from a scheduled caste family in a remote village and my father from a family who migrated to India during the 1947 partition and had to start all over again. I had a privileged life because my parents took the pain and fought against all odds to get educated. A software engineer by qualification, I joined Accenture after finishing graduation. Two years into my job and after some soul searching, I realized I wanted to do a job in which I could contribute directly to remove inequity in the society and thus I joined the Teach For India Fellowship. My first introduction to students was in 2014 when I joined the Teach For India Fellowship. I was placed in an 8th-grade classroom in Ja’Fari English High School, Shivaji Nagar, Govandi. There were 140 bright-eyed adolescent kids that I was responsible for. The students were very restless, it was difficult for them to see instant results from hard-work and that constant disappointment had normalized an attitude of disrespect in the classroom for them. Some of them were slow learners and in response to the apathy their immediate environment had shown to their problems – the students had given up on studies themselves. I would go as far as to say that they would not be in school if they had a choice. Given this tough community landscape, no
Read moreDays came and nights passed. Everything was moving but me. I was stuck in my cubicle with heaps of books
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Read moreOn the second day of “Realising India”, we were interacting with female members of a self-help-group at NangravaleiyaDhani (hamlet) in
Read moreThird Sector Partners (TSP) and it’s social initiative ‘Katalyst’ has reached an exciting milestone this year, completing more than 10
Read moreTechnology has changed the way people use to live or their lifestyle. Age of digital technology means Digitization, which is
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