India, with a population of 1.2 billion produces over 55 million tonnes of solid waste annually. A large part of this waste infact is textile waste that often goes into landfills. Landfills release methane that contributes to global warming. This…
Month: November 2013
MIEF project: Low cost microorganism kit as a teaching aid for schools!
While we may all keep complaining about the poor state of education and teaching in schools, we need to also understand that one of the reasons behind it is also that the teacher’s training programmes and ‘capacity building’ as such…
Child Labour In India: An overview
With an officially estimated 12.6 million children engaged in hazardous occupations (2001 Census), India has the largest number of child labourers under the age of 14 in the world What is Child Labour? Employing children for economic activity under…
AMU: XXXVII Indian Social Science Congress
Indian Academy of Social Sciences (ISSA) in association with Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is going to hold the 37th session of ISSC towards year end between December 27-31, 2013 at Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. This year, the focus of the…
Monday Inspiration: I am 20
One of our readers sent this film to us, along side many people who we saw sharing it on Facebook as well ! It’s an amazing film of sentiments of 20 year olds in 1947 and their aspirations for India.…
Why Is Travel Important For Children?
It’s common in the western world for children to often take a year off after school (high school) and travel, or do voluntary work in another country and basically get new experiences. While it may seem like a rich person’s…
MIEF Project: World Ozone day celebrations!
Millennium India Education Foundation (MIEF) celebrated the World Ozone Day ,during the week 10-16th September 2013 in Delhi in partnership with the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India. We worked mainly in Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa College, Delhi University, North…
Condition Of Government Schools In India: A Shocking Truth
According to global education report of 2004, India’s ranking was 106 out of 127 countries in the education sphere Although India is amongst the ten fastest growing economies in the world, India has the largest number of illiterates by far…
MIEF Project: Sharada Workshop at JNU
As we said previously through Facebook, the Sharada response at JNU received a very favourable response! We were thrilled to have so many experts, students and audience with us. The classrooms on each day were full of students (close to…
Monday Inspiration: Eat the Frog!
Sorry for the weird images you may have formulated in my mind, but we are only being a tad Mark Twain-ish this Monday. It’s all too easy to have a tough Monday and keep on procrastinating the “worst” tasks towards…