A Himachal village woman, who has come to limelight for selling handmade pine- needle ‘rakhis’, has traversed a long journey towards self empowerment. “No. I don’t consider myself disabled. I work 24X7 and there is nothing that I can’t do. You need spirit, more than anything else, to do any work,” said Sudarshana Kumari, 51, …
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Heritage Petroleum Company Limited donated 100 computers to the education ministry and ten computers to the National Crime Prevention Programme (NCPP) on July 23. The computers will be used to help students access online learning. Heritage said the donation was made as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme. In a release, it said …
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Lisa Love’s firm, Tanoshi, aims to bridge racial, educational and digital divides for low-income kids. Ed tech founders loudly talk the talk on closing the digital divide — Lisa Love is walking the walk. She’s the co-founder of Tanoshi, a Silicon Valley-based business launched in 2016 that makes and sells computers for children ages 6 to 12. Each …
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A new report outlines the urgent need to decarbonize the economy in Latin America and the Caribbean to avoid climate catastrophe, a transition that will come with millions of jobs in plant-based food production. A shift toward plant-based agriculture would create 19 million jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2030, according to a …
Pragathi Welfare Society offered them stitching machines to make cotton masks; the Society is paying Rs 3 per mask to the women, who stitch up to 100 masks a day Hyderabad: Masks, which have become compulsory daily accessories for everyone across the globe, are helping women from about 100 families in Burgula village of the …
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