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Sulabh International gives Rs. 30 lakh to Kalawati - THE HINDU |
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Special Correspondent, The Hindu, Wednesday, February 17, 2010
NEW DELHI: Sulabh International has given Rs.30 lakh to Kalawati Bandurkar, the widow of a farmer of Vidarbha region who committed suicide because of mounting debt and a failed crop. Read Full... |
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Untouchables enter Rajasthan temple |
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Alwar, Dec. 21: Alwar, a small town in Rajasthan, today witnessed a social revolution of a different kind as scores of erstwhile scavengers were allowed to enter a temple here, thereby realising the dream of Mah Read Full... |
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India human scavengers given a new lease of life |
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Betwa Sharma: United Nations
USHA Chaumar was seven years old when she began collecting human excrement with her mother in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.
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Sulabh to go global |
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Sulabh International, India’s largest NGO working in the field of sanitation, is all set to go global and provide its expertise to five countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Caribbean regions. Announcing this, Sulabh Sani Read Full... |
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Delhi observes global hand-washing day |
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Delhi observes global hand-washing day
Oct. 15: Every 20 seconds a mother mourns a dead child lost to diarrhoea, a completely preventable and utterly inexcusable cause of death.
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Millions mark UN hand-washing day |
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By Sanjay Jha | October 15, 2008
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Defeating Global Poverty: An affordable toilet |
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Dealing with human waste is still a challenge for many countries. Sulabh International, a NGO based in New Delhi, India has created an ingeniously simple latrine which costs $100 Read Full... |
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Desi Gora in Delhi - Sulabh Toilet Museum |
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Ah, culture. On Saturday (before the blasts), I headed to the Sulabh International Toilet Museum here in Delhi. The museum is run by the Sulabh International Social Service Organization. Here is their bio:Read Full... |
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New beginnings to lives disgraced |
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Kalyan Singh Kothari, OneWorld South Asia
27 August 2008
Once resigned to a life of drudgery and humiliation, women scavengers in western India are now coming out of this demeaning occupation. Sulabh International, a non-pr Read Full... |
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Sulabh Model Good for Nepal too: Indian Envoy |
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Kathmandu, September 8
Indian ambassador Rakesh Sood today said introduction of Sulabh Sauchalayas (accessible toilets) will come in handy for those houses in Nepal that do not have toilets.
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Founder roots for Sulabh Model |
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Mudita Bajracharya
Kathmandu, September 6:
Nepal can make immense gains if it adopts a simple, sustainable sanitation technology — Sulabh Sauchalaya or accessible toilets.
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Sulabh adopts another poverty stricken woman |
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Wed, Aug 20 07:49 PM
New Delhi, Aug 20 (PTI) After adopting Kalawati and her ni Read Full... |
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After trust vote, life changes for Kalawati, Shashikala |
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After years of pain that went unnoticed, there seems to be some relief for Kalawati Bandurkar and Shashikala Pingle. Both Kalawati and Shashikala hail from the killing fields of Vidarbha. They made national headlines when their Read Full... |
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After Kalawati, Sulabh adopts Rahuls Shashikala |
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New Delhi, Aug 24: An NGO which adopted Kalawati and her nine children after their plight was highlighted by Rahul Gandhi, has now decided to take care of Shashikala, who too was cited by young the Gandhi-Nehru scion in his July 22 Read Full... |
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Rahul Gandhi’s concern evokes Sulabh owner’s magnanimity |
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Sonkhas (Maharashtra), Aug 28 (IANS) Nearly a month after handing down succour to struggling farm widow, Kalawati Bandurkar, Sulabh International founder Bindeshwar Pathak Thursday lit up the life of Yavatmal district’s other va Read Full... |
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Shashikala gets some succour |
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Sonkhas (Maharashtra) (PTI): After Kalavati, luck shone for Shashikala Rengane, one of the two women who came to limelight ever since their names were mentioned in Parliament by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, as she received Rs 20 la Read Full... |
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President meets UN bound former women scavengers |
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New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil has met 30 women from Rajasthan who have been liberated from the age-old inhuman practice of manual scavenging and are all set to walk the ramp at the Read Full... |
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When Rajasthans former sanitary workers walked the ramp in New York |
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By Pankaj Choudhary
New York, July 6 (ANI): It was a moment of inexplicable joy and pride for the 36 women, formerly engaged in sanitary works like carrying night soil in Rajathans Alwar District, as they Read Full... |
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Sulabh to adopt Rahul Gandhis Kalawati |
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The NGO will offer Rs.25,000 per month to the Maharashtra-based widow’s family that has been in dire straits after her farmer-husband committed suicide
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The Blue Women |
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The day women manual scavengers from India walked the ramp in a New York fashion show
BETWA SHARMA
Once, Rani Athwal picked Read Full... |
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UN / INDIA UNTOUCHABLES |
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In India, thousands of low caste women are paid to clean human waste from open-air toilets, as basic sanitation still eludes millions in the countryside. A group of former manual scavenger women who now Read Full... |
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From clearing excrement to New York modelling |
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Sulabh adopts Kalawati, her nine children |
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Staff Reporter
Rs. 25,000 per month for 20 years
NEW DELHI: Kalawati Bandurkar’s story recounted by Rahul Gandhi during the special session of Parliament recently drew mor Read Full... |
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