The New York Times recently carried an article on adolescent girls struggling to stay in school in India.Now read the follow up article to this where IIMPACT is mentioned as one of the “large charities that focus on education and/or girls in India”: http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/how-to-help-durga-and-girls-like-her/#more-30812
Mathew Kustel from the U.S. came to India to study Hindi and to explore ‘the India’ that tourists generally do not get to see. An excerpt from Mathew Kustel’s note to his friends on his visit to India. ‘Through mutual friends, I was introduced to the lovely Urvashi Nair and her family. Urvashi lives in
Working in the field of responsible tourism gives me the opportunity to see many interesting projects worldwide. Though, would I have to pick my favourite projects now, they would be the two IIMPACT learning centers I was privileged to visit on the occasion of my last North India trip. These girls touched my heart in
Sahanara Khatun, daughter of Abdul Gaffer Lasker was an out of school girl till IIMPACT touched her life. She lives in the tiny village Patra and was married at the very early age of thirteen. Her husband works in a distant town and Sahanara continues to stay with her parents. Being faced with such a
December 5th, 6th and 7th of 2011 shall forever be etched in my heart! Reason? My visit to the IIMPACT Learning Centers in Gajapati district of Orissa. When I left Bangalore on the morning of 5th December I was just a representative of Manipal Foundation who are supporting a few centers there. However at the
My visit to the IIMPACT Learning Centre at Chandoli (Dist Alwar) I along with Mrs Nirmala Tandon and Shri P Bhatt Co-coordinator paid a visit to the Chandoli Learning Centre on the forenoon of Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011.. During some two hours that I spent at the Centre, I took the opportunity of interacting with