It is April and annual reporting time for MIEF. We are pleased with the progress we have made in the last year and wanted to share some of the work we have been doing in 2013-14! Millennium India Education Foundation…
Tag: awareness
Waste management in India
Waste management is becoming a nightmare in cities across India. With the rapidly growing urbanization and industrialization, this issue is getting out of hand for the authorities. It’s time we act and save our country from turning into a land…
Cyber-bullying in India
As per the definition given by Cyber Bullying Research Centre, U.S., cyber-bullying or online bullying is willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones and other electronic devices. According to a Global Youth Online Behaviour Survey…
Teaching through storytelling!
Storytelling has been around as long as humankind. It is one of the most effective ways to communicate an important truth to another person. Stories remain in our memory longer than facts and figures. Stories create magic and a sense of…
Educating the blind!
Visually challenged/blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or psychological factors. According to WHO estimates in 2002, the most common causes of blindness around the world are: Cataracts (47.8%), Glaucoma (12.3%), Ureites (10.2%), Age Related Macular…
Indian Television: Good or bad?
With the increasing use of internet and social networking sites, television industry is dying (okay maybe not dying but s-l-o-w-l-y becoming less popular), especially as far as the (urban) youth is concerned. Gone are the days of daily soaps on…
Popularizing art amongst the youth
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time” – Thomas Merton. In this tech-savvy generation, art is losing its glare gradually, especially among the youth. Art is not just of cultural and heritage importance, but…
Preventable diseases Indian children suffer from
According to a study published in The Lancet, in the year 2010, 16.8 lakh children died in India below the age of five years, due to infectious but preventable diseases. More than half of them could not complete the first…
Dying languages in India
India is one of the most linguistically-diverse countries in the world. However, with the passage of time, a lot of languages have lost their prevalence in our society. A language that is at a risk of falling out of use,…
Common diseases related to old-age
According to the United Nations Organization, the population of elderly persons is the fastest growing around the world and the number of elderly people by 2050 will be close to 2 billion. Aging is an inevitable process and many factors…