by | Apr 21, 2024 | Education
A Pikachu drawing, a teddy bear with a heart, and a rangoli design are just a few of the lovely gifts Harshita recently received from her little pupils. A BSc student, Harshita is part of an all-female teaching volunteer team creating inclusive learning environments...
by | Feb 19, 2023 | Education, Livelihood
When a community mobiliser from CBM India arrived at Asha’s house in Anekal, Rural Bengaluru, they met 7-year-old Tanvi, a child with Cerebral Palsy Spastic Diplegia who could only communicate with disyllabic words in Kannada. Even though she was enrolled at the...
by | Sep 19, 2022 | Education
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down. 1.5 million schools were closed to stop the spread of the virus. Closing schools and educational organisations and shifting offline education to Zoom classrooms significantly changed students’ lives...
by | Jul 19, 2022 | Education
Admissions are now open for the 2nd batch of the RCI-CBID certification programme. Interested candidates may apply here: RCI-CBID-Application – CBM (cbmindia.org). The Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) partnered with the University of Melbourne,...
by | Jun 19, 2022 | Education
Youth education and employment are top policy priorities in India. However, this country’s unemployment rate among underprivileged youths (15-34 years) was roughly 25% in 2020. The Coronavirus pandemic exposed deep-rooted structural imbalances between rural and urban,...
by | Sep 20, 2021 | Education
Gauri Gupta, hailing from a rural town in Maharashtra, was born with intellectual and physical disabilities. Complications during her mother’s pregnancy and inadequate neo-natal care led to medical problems that resulted in her condition. The distraught parents were...
