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arcticdementor · 5 years

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My first reaction to the work of Barbara Ehrenreich was one of complete indignation and contempt. A professor had assigned Ehrenreich’s book Nickel and Dimed (2001) for an English prerequisite at my commuter college—the urban satellite campus for two major universities intended to cater to low-income and nontraditional students. (Go Jaguars!) The book was a committed work of first-person journalism premised on a compelling challenge: to “see whether or not I could match income to expenses, as the truly poor attempt to do every day.” What Ehrenreich “revealed” was the constant struggle to make ends meet, a total lack of security in employment, housing, and resources, declining health from backbreaking work, and the endless humiliations of the American blue-collar worker.

About half of the people in my class were actually “college age,” while the rest were older students with jobs and often children, but not necessarily any higher education under their belt. It was a night class, and when the professor looked around the sparsely populated room, it was usually missing one or two mothers who couldn’t find childcare that evening. Once someone stumbled over a desk, knocking a pile of books to the floor. One of my classmates—an active service member on leave—responded to the din by instinctively dropping to the ground in compliance with his training and/or PTSD. Sometimes children colored outside the classroom or students left early to go to their night shifts. Needless to say, most of us found the book boring and its “revelations” laughable. This is not to say it was an unpleasant experience, as it gave us the rare and delicious opportunity to scorn and scoff at the ignorance of the educated. But we were not impressed, to say the least.

It was years later that a friend explained to me that Nickel and Dimed was in fact a revelation, just not for socialists. “Well yeah,” she said matter-of-factly, “that book wasn’t for us, it was for professional‑managerial-class liberals.” This wasn’t my first exposure to the phrase “professional managerial class” (PMC), but it was the first time the distinction seemed so sociologically significant as to force me to revise my opinion of Ehrenreich’s work. Is she a progressive liberal whisperer, spreading the gospel of class politics to the PMC? Is such a task even a worthwhile endeavor?

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The PMC is a somewhat mushy category. Its defenders and denialists, particularly in academia and the legacy media, often like to include such beloved professions as public school teachers and nurses among its ranks, a wishful idea of inherent fellowship among the college-educated. But such a loose classification conveniently ignores the “managerial” part of PMC. True PMC personnel exercise influence in the management of institutions. College professors, for example, have a role in managing the university—although this is certainly less so as higher education neoliberalizes (as adjuncts fill the jobs once held by tenured professors, and administrators and donors control more university operations than ever before). Still, tenured professors and administrators have a hand in the management of the middle-class labor force, including who gets to enter it. Nurses, meanwhile, don’t actually manage patients (who under privatized medicine are reduced to customers), and rarely manage much of the hospital. Likewise, public school teachers don’t actually manage their students so much as provide a service for them, and are managed almost completely by non-teacher administrations.

Squishy and permeable as it may be, PMC is still a useful term for the class of professional managers, regardless of all the disingenuous and pedantic protest. Ehrenreich, of course, was not the first to recognize or define the managers among the middle class. There was David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd, C. Wright Mills’s White Collar: The American Middle Class, and the debates between Erik Olin Wright and Nicos Poulantzas, to name a few. But Ehrenreich set out not simply to define and locate the professional managerial class, but specifically to interrogate its own self-awareness. As she writes in the introduction to Fear of Falling, “This book is about what could be called the class consciousness of the professional middle class, and how this consciousness has developed over the past three decades.”

This class consciousness, however, has been notoriously avoided by the professional middle classes themselves. In his 1976 “Notes and Commentary on the Irresistibility of the Petty Bourgeoisie,” German author (and who is better equipped to articulate the formal barriers of professionalization than a real-life veteran of the Hitler Youth?) Hans Magnus Enzensberger argued that the managerial class could be defined precisely by its inability to attain consciousness of itself as a class.

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Proving Enzensberger’s point, the very existence of a professional managerial class is often most controversial among the sort of left-wing intellectuals who might fit the description. Take for example David Sessions’s recent Jacobin article, “The Right’s Phony Class War,” in which he rejects the “mythical managerial class” as a right-wing boogeyman conspiracy theory, referring to it as “a pseudo-sociology that pits an ambiguous ‘managerial’ or ‘cosmopolitan’ ruling class against the rest of the country—and lets the people who actually hold political and economic power off the hook.” (It’s worth noting here that theorists of the PMC do not consider it a “ruling class” by definition, but rather a category with a relationship to capital that is distinguishable from both capitalist and worker.)

By contrast, Ehrenreich made no bones about exposing the ideology of her own frenetic class. And like Enzensberger, Ehrenreich understood the importance of such a class’s apparent instability in the midst of the ongoing class war. Enzensberger believed that the center could not hold, that some of the middle class would join the “goats” of capitalism, while most would eventually be proletarianized with the “sheep,” and “reap the fruits of socialism.” Such an outcome had not come to pass when Enzensberger was writing, leaving him to contemplate the inscrutable resilience of the professional middle class.

His conclusion was that the middle classes—by virtue (or sin, if you prefer) of their position as a “multiply articulated assemblage”—retained an “adaptability” or “characterless opportunism.” His description of this ethos was damning: “Never to take a final stand and to seize every possibility: those are the only lessons that the class has learned from its variegated history.” This “adaptability” had occasionally led the PMC to progressive politics, as has occurred recently, but, he observed, this is not a fixed feature so much as a strategy that lends credibility to its secure role as the architects of cultural hegemony.

Or, rather, seemingly secure role. It turns out that all Enzensberger had to do was wait a bit longer.

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The root of this neurosis was the historic ambivalence and dread with which the class understood itself as a tenuous “elite” that may or may not succeed in reproducing itself as a class. (Unlike other classes, each generation of the PMC had to earn its status through educational credentialing, qualifying employment, and professional achievement.) As the shock troops of Taylorism, it was as if the PMC always knew on some level that Taylorism would come for it one day as well. Later we learned that these insecurities were justified and that the “fear of falling” was a valid concern: the PMC Ehrenreich described in 1989 was a bubble, a temporary postwar glitch.

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It seems to me that Ehrenreich has answered her own question here. The PMC have been—at best—fair-weather friends to the working class, and at worst have been even more devious exploiters by dint of their “liberal” credibility. As the class which ushered in neoliberalism, I would denounce the crimes of the PMC far more forcefully than Ehrenreich.

When the PMC are flying high, their middle-class liberal initiatives to combat poverty have been inhumanely punitive and ineffectual: policies like prohibition, eugenics, and broken-windows policing come to mind. On the institutional level, liberal think tanks like the Center for American Progress and wealthy NGOs like the Gates and Ford Foundations have reliably pushed for neoliberal policies and private sector solutions to poverty, conveniently avoiding expropriation, redistribution, and universal public programs and services.

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So I do not weep for this sinking ship, and would instead save my tears for the members of the working class, who have been left with the check, though they may now include a number of recent PMC exiles. Which leads me to the more practical question: Will a sizable number of these erstwhile PMC join the sheep? Or will most of them instead identify with the goats, following Steinbeck’s pathetic “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”? Or will they find no class consciousness at all, drifting into lumpen listlessness, atomized from both flock and herd?

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I am still at times asked to speak at DSA events, including a recent one for the DSA Tech Action Working Group—a decidedly PMC collection of DSA members working in tech. Inspired by Google software engineer James Damore’s infamous “anti-diversity memo,” the subject I was to speak on was “diversity in tech.” The friend who asked me to speak rightly recognized that the tech industry is no longer a small cabal of entrepreneurial specialists but is increasingly expanding into a global labor force of workers—from petit bourgeois to prole, if you will.

I cannot, however, say I found many examples of such workers at this event. Multiple representatives from HR departments spoke up, one to say that “it’s all about hiring practices,” and to urge the attendees to come to HR whenever they had a problem. One woman wanted to read a long academic article about a typesetters’ union fighting automation and other changes that would open the floodgates for underpaid, largely female scab labor. She was under the impression that this exposed the sexist nature of trade unions.

The crowd was very “diverse” in all the Ikea commercial ways that warm our Coca-Cola liberal hearts, but some of the most insightful observations came from the bearded and (presumably) cishet white males. One timidly put forth that “HR actually works for management,” while another recognized that the biggest source of “diversity” in the tech industry is highly exploited third-world call-center workers.

At first glance, the superior class consciousness of the beardy white male tech bro may appear counterintuitive, but it is a function of tech industry managerialism that he has a better view of class conflict. As an industry, tech has thoroughly absorbed “diversity” into its corporate culture and HR programming, for both legal liability and liberal credibility reasons. If you’re a woman and/or minority working for Google and your job is miserable, you are told by the whole world—and by your employer itself—that this is because you are a woman and/or minority. But, you are also told, your employer is here with sensitivity trainings, diversity initiatives, and at-will firing practices (you know, for the bad employees) to remedy all of that and to build a better work environment and, thereby, a more egalitarian world. If, however, you are a straight white man working for Google and your job is miserable, you know it’s because your job is miserable, and the company isn’t there to help you. Liberal identitarian HR obfuscations don’t work as well on exploited and precarious dude-bros.

The evening culminated during the Q and A, wherein a woman earnestly asked, “What do I do if some alt-right guy wants to be in the union?”

Visibly vexed, I replied that if an alt-right guy wants to be in your union, you won.

This statement was met with noticeable consternation, so I went on to explain that you want everyone in the union because the end goal is a closed shop. I explained that this is the very premise of a union: it is not a social club for people of shared progressive values; it’s a shared struggle, and collective politics are the only thing that can actually break down all that office bigotry you’re so concerned about. She did not appear convinced.

I use this particular anecdote to illustrate the obstacles to building a socialist PMC, but I have many others (particularly in the recent spate of white collar unionism), and herein lies the tragic irony of the great middle class exodus: even when they fall, and even when they find themselves in “Left spaces,” they are still too proximal to management—or at least believe themselves to be—to imagine much beyond human resources liberalism. Very frequently, they view blue-collar workers as inherently illiberal antagonists. (Just look at the response to the failed Clinton campaign by prominent members of the liberal media and academia, who have finally answered their favorite old canard of “Why do the working class vote against their own interests?” with accusations of innate bigotry and misogyny.)

Many dedicated socialists of the professional managerial class, from Ehrenreich to my friend who organized this event, have historically overestimated the degree to which “liberals” can—or ever really did—benefit working-class Americans. Instead, most PMC liberals tend to project their own interests onto the working class, in order to legitimize their decidedly middle-class ambitions (say, a corner office and stock options at a tech firm) through progressive politics. Thus, when middle-class fellow travelers hear the phrase “liberal elite” to refer to the progressive PMC, they assume it can be nothing more than a dog whistle, meant to incite working-class resentment against themselves. Sessions’s Jacobin article offers an explicit example of this mindset, though Fear of Falling, too, at times protests too much against the right-wing populism that makes hay by criticizing a supposedly mythical “liberal elite.”

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It’s fair to say that the PMC’s paternalistic contempt for the working classes has been well documented, including by Ehrenreich herself, but what PMC intellectuals often fail to grasp is how much members of this class also hate one another. The PMC has historically had very little class solidarity (McCarthyism comes to mind), and their recent proletarianization—exacerbated by a hypercompetitive job market, atomization, remote work, precarity, internet social dynamics, professionalization, Taylorism, etc.—has done nothing to suppress their desire to eat their own. Ehrenreich herself recently experienced this cannibalism firsthand.

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I’ve said before that expropriating Yale and Harvard and converting them into public institutions would be a victory in the class war. But the small liberal arts colleges of the PMC—the Reeds, Wesleyans, and Oberlins—they may actually need to be burned down.

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Middle-class liberal Remoaners have somehow branded bourgeois cosmopolitanism as Left internationalism, throwing the Corbyn campaign under the bus for the sake of an unaccountable capitalist cabal. They’re currently attacking the Labour Party “from the Left,” some because they have mistaken the European Union for the Comintern, and some merely to keep their holidays in Mykonos convenient (not to mention mysteriously affordable these days). Many former Sanders supporters—most notably in “Left media”—have jumped ship, or attempt to play both sides, claiming to favor more “electable” candidates as they pander to liberal and identitarian hacks in the media and the Democratic Party. Socialists mistake the middle-class progressive for the comrade at our own risk; a foundation that relies too heavily on the ranks of this nervous, fickle class is doomed to crack and crumble, along with anything we try to build on top of it.

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The PMC can—and should—be brought to commit to its own abolition, but attempting to evangelize a class that has so much difficulty even acknowledging its own existence is a futile endeavor. At this rare and fragile moment of opportunity for socialism in America, the best bet for Berniecrats is to build a strong base of workers committed to social democratic reforms. The PMC will follow, as they always do; they’re the cart, not the horse.

#Amber A'Lee Fronst #american affairs #read the whole thing #interesting perspective #professional managerial class #class politics

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heavyarethecrowns · 7 years

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Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark

Sofía of Greece and Denmark is a member of the Spanish royal family who served as Queen of Spain during the reign of her husband, King Juan Carlos I, from 1975 to 2014.

Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark was born on 2 November 1938, in Psychiko, Athens, Greece, the eldest child of King Paul and his wife, Queen Frederica. Sofia is a member of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg dynasty. Her brother is the deposed King Constantine II and her sister is Princess Irene. Princess Sophia spent some of her childhood in Egypt where she took her early education in El Nasr Girls' College (EGC) in Alexandria. She lived in South Africa during her family's exile from Greece during World War II. They returned to Greece in 1946. She finished her education at the prestigious Schloss Salem boarding school in Southern Germany, and then studied childcare, music and archeology in Athens. She also studied at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, now, though not then, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. She represented Greece, alongside her brother Constantine, as a reserve member of the Gold Medal-winning sailing team in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Sofía met her paternal third cousin the then Infante Juan Carlos of Spain on a cruise in the Greek Islands in 1954; they met again at the wedding of the Duke of Kent, her paternal second cousin, at York Minster in June 1961.The couple married on 14 May 1962, at the Catholic Cathedral of Saint Dionysius in Athens. Sofia converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism to become more palatable to Catholic Spain, and thus relinquished her rights to the Greek throne. Along with this, the usual Latinisation of her Greek name (Σοφία) was changed from Sophia to the Spanish variant, Sofía.

In 1969, Infante Juan Carlos, who was never Prince of Asturias (the traditional title of the Spanish heir apparent), was given the official title of "Prince of Spain" by the Spanish state; Sofía herself had suggested the title. Juan Carlos acceded to the throne in 1975, upon the death of Francisco Franco. The couple have three children: Elena (born 20 December 1963); Cristina (born 13 June 1965); and Felipe (born 30 January 1968).

In addition to Spanish and her native Greek, Queen Sofía also speaks Italian, French, German, Portuguese and English.

She is executive president of the Queen Sofía Foundation, which in 1993, sent funds for relief in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is honorary president of the Royal Board on Education and Care of Handicapped Persons of Spain, as well as the Spanish Foundation for Aid for Drug Addicts. She takes special interest in programs against drug addiction, travelling to conferences in both Spain and abroad.

The Queen is an Honorary Member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts and of the Spanish Royal Academy of History. Queen Sofía has been honorary president of the Spanish Unicef Committee since 1971. She has been working closely with Dr. Muhammed Yunus on his Grameen Bank (or "Village Bank"), which offers microcredits to women across the world. Queen Sofía has travelled to Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador and Mexico to support the activities of the organization led by Yunus. Queen Sofía has also been a strong supporter of Somaly Mam's efforts and of the NGO she founded—Agir pour les Femmes en Situation Précaire (AFESIP)—in combatting child prostitution and slavery in Cambodia. In 1998, Mam was awarded the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation in her presence. In July 2012, the Queen visited the Philippines for a fourth time. She inspected several development projects around the former Spanish colony that her country's government is funding via the Agencia Española de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desarollo (AECID). She visited the National Library, National Museum and the University of Santo Tomas. She also met with Spanish nationals residing in the Philippines, and attended a reception at the Spanish Embassy. She also attended a state dinner in her honour at Malacañan Palace hosted by President Benigno Aquino III

The the Princess Sofía was in Greece on a private visit to her brother, King Constantine II, when the 1967 Greek military coup took place. Since then, he has been stripped of his title, citizenship and property in Greece. Except for a brief stay for the funeral of her mother in 1981, Queen Sofía did not visit republican Greece until 1998. She and her husband paid an official visit after 17 years as guests of the then President Constantinos Stephanopoulos.

She has expressed opinions on policy including her criticism of the military intervention in Afghanistan, where Spanish troops were taking part at the time, her defence of religious education in schools, and her conviction that gender violence publicity will encourage new cases to occur.

On the occasion of her 70th birthday, she made a number of conservative ideological statements on issues then being debated in Spanish society. These statements were published by the Opus Dei journalist Pilar Urbano, and included Queen Sofía's rejection of same-sex marriage, rejection of gay pride celebration, anti-abortion position and defence of religious education in schools. Her opinions produced great unrest among progressive sectors of Spanish society, and prompted criticism of her for getting involved in partisan opinions against her constitutional mandate

Her opinions were subjected to lively criticism by LGBT associations and Spanish intellectuals.Also responding were Spanish republican political parties like IU and ERC. The governing PSOE decided to keep silent, while the conservative opposition PP also did so, after initial criticism of the Queen from one of its representatives. A biography published in May 2012 claims that the Queen is a vegetarian who dislikes bullfighting.

#infanta elena #king felipe vi #queen sofia #1800 #spain

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chantalkrcmar · 5 years

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Another Love Letter to My Daughter

My dearest Anamika, sweetest Bug,

I write these little love letters (which never could contain all the love I feel for you) so that your future self can read them and know the person you were before you had a long-term enough memory to remember yourself by. Whatever your future self is, know that I thought you were amazing in many ways from very early on.

This past Saturday, you, Papa and I spent the afternoon at one of Mumbai Mobile Creches’ daycare facilities at a construction site in Dharavi. Watching you at the site was one of the happiest moments motherhood has given me thus far. You will know why when you read on. But first a bit about Mumbai Mobile Creches (MMC)…

Mumbai Mobile Creches is one of the NGOs with which I have been connected for my dissertation fieldwork. They provide childcare for children who live on construction sites. These children’s lives are rough: most of their families migrate all over India in search of work, so the children either get no education or an extremely disrupted, poor one; they live in shacks constructed of throw-away corrugated metal and tarps either right on the site or near it (I’ve seen bicycle sheds way nicer than what these kids call “home.”); health and safety hazards abound; nutrition is lacking, to say the least.

MMC is a haven for these children. When builders are willing — which is not often! in all of Mumbai, MMC has 20 childcare sites — MMC gets a room or two in the building as it is being constructed. They turn those dusty, noisy, half-constructed rooms into “daycare facilities.” Imagine your child going to daycare or preschool or an after-school program on an operational construction site. Regardless the conditions and against tough odds, MMC provides care where there otherwise would be none. Despite the dinginess, the MMC staff make the rooms as festive and colorful as possible, decorating with the children’s artwork. And let me tell you! These kids make beautiful art with very very limited supplies. (In fact, you were so impressed with their creations that this morning you made a house of a cardboard box and other miscellaneous “rubbish” — something we decided we would do more often. In your school, there was such an over-abundance of art supplies that you never had to — nor had you been inspired to — use “throw-away” objects before.)

Yesterday was the culmination of Reading Week at MMC’s childcare facilities. Due to my connection with MMC, you, Papa and I were invited to come. Before we went, I explained to you that we were going to be visiting children who live on a construction site in very poor conditions. I had no idea how you would take it all, how you would interact with the children, how you would process it. To put it in particularly harsh perspective, we had just spent the morning at an extremely lavish affair at one of your classmate’s homes.

So you, Papa and I went from one of the most luxurious homes in the world to some of the most destitute — all in the space of several hours. And how did you, my sweetest Bug, react when we went to the construction site? Utterly and completely at ease. Actually, better than that. With real enthusiasm.

When we arrived, we picked our way through the construction site to find the MMC room. (I will admit I could feel my heart pound a bit as I heard rubble falling from higher floors in the high-rise building and saw all the heavy machinery in action. Your safety was, obviously, a concern. You, on the other hand, were simply fascinated: diggers! dump trucks! concrete mixers! All up close and personal!) Once we got to the MMC room, completely packed with kids, you dove right in. Despite the heat and humidity, you insisted on wearing snow boots to the construction site (which actually ended up being useful when we were scaling gravel piles). You pulled them off, left them next to all the other kids’ sandals, and sat right down on the floor amongst everyone. You admired their artwork, sang songs for them (“Do you know the color of the rainbow?” and “I know a little turtle, his name is Tiny Tim…”), listened while they sang songs in Hindi and English for you, watched Papa read a book in Hindi, ate ladoos with the children — and got lots of the sticky ladoo crumbs stuck in your hair.

At one point all the children got up and started running to the other MMC room, which required going out on the site. Not wanting to miss out on anything, you upped and ran with them. I was being beckoned by the teacher at that moment, so Papa went after you — mainly because none of the kids, including you, put shoes on. Being an active construction site, we were justifiably concerned about you stepping on something and getting tetanus, or getting worms, or whatever else can come of running bare foot in such conditions. But we needn’t have worried. The moment you stepped on the ground, one of the older boys scooped you up and carried you to the other room. Normally, you would balk at being carried like a baby. (“I’m three and three quarters!” you used to announce to everyone.) But you were lost in the thrill of the moment and accepted his gallant efforts at helping you avoid tetanus. :-)

Most of the time we were at the MMC site, I just watched the children’s joyful chaos with a huge sloppy smile on my face. I was swelling with a mixture of pride, joy and gratitude. To whom or what was I grateful? To you, my dearest daughter, to the universe, to sheer luck, to whatever force made you so beautifully comfortable outside of your “normal.” Papa and I started you on a path of doing your part for social justice at a young age. You were not quite one year old when we took you to the first Women's March. You’ve been to other marches since then. We fervently hope as you get older you'll continue on this path in the way that is right for you. To me, a huge part of fighting injustice requires reaching across divides, being with people of all different stripes, walking a mile, as they say. So spending time with folks in the tough places of India is something I had hoped you would learn to be ok with. Heck, it’s where I spend quite a bit of my time. Well, your initial forays into such a setting way exceeded my hopes.

And pride. I felt oh so proud of you. Perhaps that pride was misplaced. Perhaps all children would react the same way you did — moving so seamlessly between a world dripping with wealth and a world mired in poverty. Perhaps all children would not notice, or care if they did notice, that the MMC kids were wearing dirty, ripped, faded clothing, and so many of the children at your school wore clothes emblazoned with the most expensive luxury brand names. Perhaps all children would be ok sitting on the floor of a dusty, dirty, hot room with no fancy school supplies, when on a daily basis they go to a school with countless pristine rooms (an art room! a gym! a swimming pool! a performing arts space! a library! and on and on…) and school supplies that never ever run out. Perhaps all children are wired to NOT be hung up on differences and dirt. I hope that’s true. But whether or not it is, I was still so proud and so so happy to watch you in such a setting.

One other thing that struck me: You were not at all patronizing — something that I worried about. You knew, even at such a young age (of three and three quarters!) that there are many poor children in India (and elsewhere — but poverty, as I have written before, is so in-your-face in India) and you knew that we were not poor. You regularly reminded me: “If we see poor children, we should always give them some money or food.” It was very sweet, but I didn’t want you to go to the MMC site with an air of superiority. That worry evaporated quickly once we got there and I saw how easily and enthusiastically you mixed with the kids.

As we were walking away from the construction site, you told Papa and me that you wanted to go back to MMC and do art projects with the kids. A truly fantastic ending to a truly fantastic afternoon! And I started making arrangements to do that the very next day. But for the rest of the day after our MMC visit, I just enjoyed being in a fog of contentment. You put me in that pleasant fog, and I could never say “thank you” enough.

Love you always and forever,

Mama

To read more about MMC, go to http://mumbaimobilecreches.org/

[Note: Because they serve children, MMC has a strict photo policy. I received clearance to post these two photos of our time at the site.]

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janesheartus · 8 years

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What is International Woman’s Day?

International Day Of Women takes place annually on 8 March to celebrate the achievements of women around the globe. It started with a protest that happened in New York City in 1908 where women went out to the streets to demand the legal right to vote, shorter work hours and much better pay. Today it’s a global event which is supported by a lot of charities, NGOs, governments as well as educational institutions. In some countries, March 8th is an official holiday as International Day Of Women, and in other countries, it’s the official holiday only for the woman.

International Woman’s Day:

Nowadays it may appear that ladies have all the same possibilities as men. In the news, you will see women astronauts, women prime ministers and women leaders in business. However, if you check out statistics, you realize there’s still a long way to go. The BBC did a report a few years ago that showed that in the UK women occupied just 30.9% of the most senior positions throughout a range of jobs in areas just like politics, business and policing. Therefore, although progress has been made since 1908, there’s still a lot to do before we see some people in the top jobs as well as receiving equal pay.

International Woman’s Day – Think globally and act locally:

The message for women all over the world is to ‘think globally and act locally.’ Emma Watson, the actress who performed Hermione in the Harry Potter movies, is a superb example of somebody who is doing something to raise awareness regarding the issues that women deal with globally. The objective is to create a ‘gender-equal world.’ The HeForShe campaign makes it clear that it’s the role of men and also women to make changes in all areas of the lives, both at work and in the family, to help to make this achievable.

How do we increase worldwide gender parity?

This is the complicated question that international aid organizations and national advocates alike spend lots of time on. Specific solutions will be different from problem to the problem as well as region to region.

However, the answers boil down to money, power, and will.

Investing more on international aid fond of girls and women can help them rise out of poverty and bring their loved ones and communities up with them.

Spending much more on social safety net programs like paid family leave as well as universal childcare helps women take part more equally in the workforce, and spares them the impossible choice in between making a living and looking after their family.

Helping women gain politics power might help empower other girls and women, and help make sure that women’s issues get priority in policy making.

However, it takes political will to change how money, as well as power, are distributed and political will is usually held hostage by individuals who currently have money and power. In the past, women have not been people. That is why International Women’s Day came to exist in the first place, and why it’s still relevant today.

How to Celebrate International Womans Day?

International Day Women is not only about giving a flower to a woman you appreciate and telling her she is great. This day, March 8, is a sign of the struggles that ladies all over the world have undergone to gain equality and rights along with a reminder of how far there is still to go. Thankfully, there’s something that you can do to help celebrate this important day.

Find out the history of International Womans Day. This celebrates the achievements (usually overlooked) of women and also recognizing their accomplishments and the struggles that they have gone through. It was a part of the labor movements which began in the early 1900s in America as well as Europe.

The 1st International Womans Day was celebrated in 1909 to honor the 1908 garment women’s strike in New York. The women were protesting their terrible working circumstances.

Find out about women’s struggle for equality all over the world on International Day Women. Women aren’t just regularly overlooked, but they’re put through harassment, assault, violence as well as the disparity in wages according to their gender.

A U.N report discovered that women are discriminated against in almost every country on the planet. They found that seventy percent of the poor are women and that women own about 1% of the world’s entitled property. Recognizing what ladies have to undergo and increasing awareness about that can result in change.

One out of three women is a victim of sexual or even physical violence, and the most rapes are either never reported, or the rapist gets off with virtually no punishment. This becomes a whole lot worse for women of color, who’ve disproportionately victims of sexual violence, generally at the hand of white males.

International Day Women:

Even in the U.S. (supposedly, therefore, fair and balanced) women and men are far from equal in the law as well as in the eyes of society. For instance, among year-round, full-time workers women had been paid 77% of what men were paid which disparity deepens along with race and with age. Also, women are less inclined to be employed even if they have the same qualifications as a male candidate.

Donate to some local women’s shelter. This could be everything from money to clothing or food, for your time. Assisting a local women’s shelter, particularly a battered women’s shelter, helps you to remind you regarding the difficulties women continue to face, and also doing your part to assist some of that on International Day Of Women.

source http://www.upcomevent.com/what-is-international-womans-day/ from Up Come Event http://upcomeventus.blogspot.com/2017/01/what-is-international-womans-day.html

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iasshikshalove · 5 years

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C.A Dated On 30-07-2019 GS-2 National Creche Scheme: Context: National Crèche Scheme is being implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme through States/UTs with effect from 01.01.2017. About National Creche Scheme:  The Scheme is being implemented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development.  It is a centrally sponsored scheme.  It aims at providing a safe place for mothers to leave their children while they are at work, and thus, is a measure for empowering women as it enables them to take up employment. Coverage: It is an intervention towards protection and development of children in the age group of 6 months to 6 years. Features: C.A Dated On 30-07-2019  Provides for day care facilities to the children of working mothers.  Provides supplementary nutrition, health care inputs like immunization, polio drops, basic health monitoring, sleeping facilities, early stimulation (for children below 3 years), pre-school education for children aged between 3-6 yrs. Significance:  This scheme facility enables the parents to leave their children while they are at work and where the children are provided with a stimulating environment for their holistic development.  This scheme ensures to improve the health and nutrition status of the children.  It promotes physical, social, cognitive and emotional/holistic development of the children.  It also educates and empowers parents/caretakers for the better childcare.  The scheme is being structurally revised with the enhanced financial norms, stringent monitoring and sharing pattern between the Government of India and the implementing agencies and NGOs. Eligibility Criteria:  The State Government, Voluntary Institutions, Mahila Mandals with the know report of service in the field of child welfare department and registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 or registered as a Public Trust at least for the period for last 2 years are eligible for applying for the financial assistance from the fund. Fund sharing: C.A Dated On 30-07-2019  The fund sharing pattern under National Creche Scheme amongst Centre, States/UTs & Non Governmental Organisations/Voluntary Organisations for all recurring components of the scheme is in the ratio of 60:30:10 for States, 80:10:10 for North Eastern States and Himalayan States and 90:0:10 for UTs. Tiger survey Why in news? The four-year tiger census report, Status of Tigers in India, 2018, released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, shows numbers of the big cat have increased across all landscapes. Salient observation of report  The total count has risen to 2,967 from 2,226 in 2014 — an increase of 741 individuals (aged more than one year), or 33%, in four years.  This is by far the biggest increase in terms of both numbers and percentage since the four-yearly census using camera traps and the capture-mark-recapture method began in 2006.  The number that year was 1,411; it rose by 295 (21%) to 1,706 in 2010; and by 520 (30%) to 2,226 in 2014.  Tiger numbers are always projected in a range — 2,967, is the mean of an estimated range of 2,603 to 3,346.  The 2018 figure has a great degree of credibility because, according to the report, as many as 2,461 individual tigers (83% of the total) have actually been photographed by trap cameras. In 2014, only 1,540 individuals (69%) were photographed.  The report does not contain numbers of other predators like leopards. But better tiger numbers are generally seen as indicating good prey bases and habitat. Why is a tiger census needed?  The tiger sits at the peak of the food chain, and its conservation is important to ensure the wellbeing of the forest ecosystem. C.A Dated On 30-07-2019  The tiger estimation exercise includes habitat assessment and prey estimation.  The numbers reflect the success or failure of conservation efforts.  This is an especially important indicator in a fast-growing economy like India where the pressures of development often run counter to the demands of conservation.  The Global Tiger Forum, an international collaboration of tiger-bearing countries, has set a goal of doubling the count of wild tigers by 2022. More than 80% of the world’s wild tigers are in India, and it’s crucial to keep track of their numbers. Where has the tiger population increased the most?  The biggest increase has been in Madhya Pradesh — a massive 218 individuals (71%) from 308 in 2014 to 526. In Maharashtra, the number has gone up from 190 to 312 (64%), and in Karnataka, from 406 to 524 (118, or 29%). Uttarakhand has gained over 100 tigers (340 to 442; 30%)  However, since tigers keep moving between states, conservationists prefer to talk about tiger numbers in terms of landscapes. India’s five tiger landscapes are: Shivalik Hills and Gangetic Plains, Central Indian Landscape and Eastern Ghats, Western Ghats, North-East Hills and Brahmaputra Plains, and the Sundarbans. Which states/regions have done badly?  Only one of the 20 tiger-bearing states has seen a fall in numbers — Chhattisgarh, where the census counted 19 tigers, significantly fewer than the 46 of 2014.  The report has cited law and order as the reason — large parts of the state are hit by the Maoist insurgency.  Greater conservation efforts are needed in the “critically vulnerable” Northeast hills and Odisha.  No tiger has been found in the Buxa, Palamau and Dampa reserves. How were the estimates reached? C.A Dated On 30-07-2019  The census was carried out in four phases. Phases 1 and 2 covered forest beats, generally spread over 15 sq km each, by Forest Departments, to collect signs of tiger presence like scat and pugmarks.  Enumerators walked paths called line transects to estimate the abundance of prey.  This was followed by sampling of plots along the transects to assess habitat characteristics, human impact, and prey dung density.  In phase 3, the information was plotted on the forest map prepared with remote-sensing and GIS application. Sample areas were divided in 2-sq-km parcels, and trap cameras were laid in these grids.  In the last phase, data were extrapolated to areas where cameras could not be deployed.  Authorities say the census is the world’s most extensive biodiversity mapping exercise.  A total 3,81,400 sq km of forests were surveyed; 5,22,996 km on foot. 3,17,958 habitat plots were sampled for vegetation and prey dung.  There were 26,838 camera trap locations, which covered 1,21,337 sq km. So, why have the numbers gone up?  The success owes a lot to increased vigilance and conservation efforts by the Forest Department.  From 28 in 2006, the number of tiger reserves went up to 50 in 2018, extending protection to larger numbers of tigers over the years.  Healthy increases in core area populations eventually lead to migrations to areas outside the core; this is why the 2018 census has found tigers in newer areas.  Over the years, there has been increased focus on tigers even in the areas under the territorial and commercial forestry arms of Forest Departments.  The brightest spot in the non-protected tiger-bearing areas is the Brahmapuri division of Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, which has more than 40 tigers. C.A Dated On 30-07-2019  The other important reason is increased vigilance, and the fact that organised poaching rackets have been all but crushed. According to Nitin Desai of Wildlife Protection Society of India, there has been no organised poaching by traditional gangs in Central Indian landscapes since 2013.  The increased protection has encouraged the tiger to breed. According to Wildlife Institute of India Director V B Mathur, tigers are fast breeders when conditions are conducive.  The rehabilitation of villages outside core areas in many parts of the country has led to the availability of more inviolate space for tigers. Also, because estimation exercises have become increasingly more accurate over the years, it is possible that many tigers that eluded enumerators in earlier exercises were counted this time. GS-3 AMBIS Why in news? On Monday, Maharashtra became the first state in the country to adopt a digital fingerprint and iris scanning system to aid police investigations. What is it? The system, Automated Multi-modal Biometric Identification System (AMBIS), will include portable systems to dust off and capture fingerprints from crime scenes. So what does AMBIS do and how it will help the police in their investigation  In 2015, when Indian authorities were alerted about the detention of gangster Chhota Rajan in Indonesia, the Mumbai Police rushed to put together a dossier of cases registered against him in the city.  However, providing a record of his fingerprints from the 1980s would prove essential in gaining his custody, as per international protocol.  That's when the need to digitise fingerprint records, numbering in crores, was felt. C.A Dated On 30-07-2019 The trial stage  In 2017, the cyber department of the Maharashtra Police selected a French firm through tendering to provide both hardware and software for a unit comprising a computer, camera, and iris, fingerprint and palm scanners.  Apart from scanning and permanently storing biometric data, the police also tops files of arrested persons with their photos.  Before Monday's formal launch, the system was trailed at a select few police stations in Mumbai, which have seen an upgrade in technological infrastructure after the CCTV project and Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and System (CCTNS) were implemented.  All the while, the cyber police department digitised over 6.5 lakh fingerprints recorded on paper from the 1950s onwards. Future plans  With Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announcing the project implementation across all 94 police stations in Mumbai, the next step is to roll it out in all 1160 police stations in the state's 42 police districts, 7 police ranges, 10 central jails, 12 police training centers, and 4 fingerprint bureaus.  With the integration of the system with facial recognition from CCTV cameras, AMBIS has enabled the police to cross-reference to put faces to criminals whose fingerprints have been captured on paper over the decades apart from solving fresh crimes. “RoboBee X-Wing Why in news? It is essentially a flying machine, which can flap its wings 120 times a second and is half the size of a paperclip, as a report in The Wired describes it. Details C.A Dated On 30-07-2019  In a recently published paper in Nature, researchers from the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory in Cambridge have claimed to have made possible the “lightest insect-scale aerial vehicle so far to have achieved sustained, untethered flight.”  The robot can sustain a flight for less than a second. Initially, the researchers called this lightest centimetre-sized vehicle, “RoboBee”, but with the current advancement which makes it possible for RoboBee to fly untethered, its name has been upgraded to, “RoboBee X-Wing”.  Along with the electronics required to give RoboBee X-Wing its flight, the robot weighs 259 mg and uses 110-120 milliwatts of power using solar energy, matching the “thrust efficiency” of similarly sized insects such as bees.  Much like aircraft, the robot is heavier than the air it displaces — a concept referred to as “heavier-than-air flight”. However, when objects become smaller, achieving a heavier-than-air flight becomes more complicated. Significance  Studying the mechanisms that insects use to flap their wings and navigate in the air is a matter of interest to biologists.  Flapping-wing robots can help in addressing questions related to the evolution of flight, the mechanical basis of natural selection and environmental monitoring. Others are interested in replicating these abilities to build a new array of machines. Odisha Rasagola Why in news? A long drawn battle of ownership has come to a draw now with each State receiving a Geographical Indication (GI) tag for the syrupy sweet from their respective States. Background  The 'Odisha Rasagola' has been awarded the GI tag in July 2019.  Back in November 2017, West Bengal has received the GI tag for its Rasgulla. C.A Dated On 30-07-2019  Prior to which both States vehemently claimed the origin of the Indian sweet.  The ‘Odisha Rasagola’, according to the application submitted to the Registrar of GI, is a sweet from the state of Odisha made of chhena (cottage cheese) cooked in sugar syrup, which is very soft to feel, is juicy and non- chewy in consistency and can be swallowed without teeth pressure. LCU L-56 Why in news? Indian Navy Ship LCU L-56, the sixth of the Landing Craft Utility (LCU) MK IV class ships, was commissioned into the Indian Navy . Commissioning the ship, the Vice-Admiral congratulated the GRSE (Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers) for being the first shipyard in the country to have built the 100th warship. Benefits  The induction of LCU 56 will add to maritime and HADR (Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief) capability of ANC (Andaman Nicobar Command), as the ship will be deployed for multirole activities such as beaching operations, search and rescue missions, disaster relief operations, coastal patrol, and surveillance operations along the Andaman and Nicobar Group of Islands. About the ship  LCU 56 is an amphibious ship with its primary role being transportation and deployment of main battle tanks, armoured vehicles, troops and equipment from ship to shore.  The ship would be administered and based in Port Blair under the NAVCC in ANC.  With a displacement of 900 tonnes, the ship measures 62 metres in length and is fitted with two MTU diesel engines, which provide a sustainable speed of over 15 knots.  The ship is equipped with the state-of-art equipment and is armed with two 30 mm CRN-91 guns manufactured by Ordnance Factory, Medak.  The ship is manned by a team comprising four officers and 56 sailors and is also capable of carrying 150 troops. Kodaikanal Malai Poondu C.A Dated On 30-07-2019 Why in news? This particular garlic species is known for its medicinal and preservative properties The Geographical Indications Registry has granted the Geographical Indication (GI) tag to Kodaikanal Malai Poondu (Kodaikanal Hill Garlic). Details  The application was made by the Department of Biotechnology, Mother Teresa Women’s University and Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology. What is special about it?  Also known by its scientific name Allium Sativum, this particular garlic is known for its medicinal and preservative properties.  It has anti-oxidant and anti-microbial potential, which is attributed to the presence of higher amount of organosulfur compounds, phenols and flavonoids compared to other garlic varieties.  It is grown in the Kodaikanal Hills, Dindugul district.  Its usually white or pale yellow and each bulb weighs 20-30g on an average. Cultivation of garlic  According to the GI application, Kodaikanal Hill Garlic cultivation is done twice in a year, once around May and for second time in November depending upon the suitability of the climate.  The hill altitude, the misty condition and the soil prevailing in the Kodaikanal region are responsible for its medicinal property and the long storage shelf life of the garlic.  In India, garlic is planted as both kharif (June-July) and rabi (October-November) crop and it depends on the regions.  It is planted as a rabi crop in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Bengal and hilly regions.  It is both kharif and rabi crop in T.N., Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. About GI tag  A GI tag indicates that the product originates from a definite territory in India and has unique characteristics or quality. C.A Dated On 30-07-2019  Having a GI tag prevents unauthorised use of a registered Geographical Indication by others, boosts exports of Indian Geographical indications by providing legal protection and also enables seeking legal protection in other WTO member countries.  Some of the examples of Geographical Indications in India include Basmati Rice, Darjeeling Tea, Kancheepuram silk saree, Alphonso Mango, Nagpur Orange and Kolhapuri Chappal.

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iim-bangalore-blog · 7 years

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IIMB’S INCUBATION HUB OFFERS WORKSHOPS, NETWORKING SESSIONS AND REVIEWS TO ITS FIRST BATCH OF 8 SOCIAL VENTURES

Anchor-mentors will guide the start-ups through their 18-month incubation journey at the NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning

18 September, 2017, Bengaluru: The eight early-stage organizations selected by IIM Bangalore’s N. S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL), under the social ventures program for incubation over the next 18 months, were inducted on September 15 (Friday), 2017, in the presence of IIMB faculty, mentors and NSRCEL members.

Rajiv Sawhney, Chief Operating Officer, NSRCEL, said: “A review system will be in place for periodic intervention to monitor your progress. We need to get into a far more frequent Q&A mode. There will be many speaker sessions and workshops to engage you in high gear. Access to online platforms will help boost interaction with a larger community. To make you successful is our own test as well.”

The entrepreneurship and innovation hub of IIM Bangalore – NSRCEL – had launched its social ventures incubator in April this year, to nurture early stage non-profit organizations.

Through this initiative, NSRCEL Social aims to address the lack of an effective support system for early stage NGOs that are offered little or no technical assistance for fund raising, legal issues and operational challenges. One of the first social incubators of India exclusively for non-profit organizations, it aims to help create a pool of high-performing organizations that can create large-scale social impact. The social ventures incubation program is currently supported by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. These selected ventures will be incubated for a period of 18 months and given financial support of INR 18 lakhs.

The goal of the NSRCEL Social Ventures Program is to help the ventures build a mindset to scale and impact. NSRCEL will put in place an M&E framework to periodically track progress of the ventures through joint goal setting efforts ofmentors and ventures and enable a three pronged mechanism of self, peer to peer and mentor review system in place. NSRCEL also intends to foster cross learnings and sharing of best practices through the mix of programs and other incubatees under its fold.

The selection process for the program started early April this year. The centre received over 160 applications, out of which 24 were selected spanning diverse sectors like education, livelihood, financial inclusion, etc. The 12-week pre-incubation program for these ventures included mentoring, classroom sessions on critical strategies, field visits, boot camp, networking and intensive review sessions.

Shortlisted ventures were pitched to an advisory committee before the final eight were selected. The incubation will give the ventures access to resources at IIMB and leverage the support system created for non-profits. The incubator is guided by an eight-member advisory committee comprising established non-profit and business leaders and faculty of IIMB. It leverages the expertise of NSRCEL-IIMB in nurturing for-profit organizations for over a decade, faculty members and student communities at IIMB.

The induction event, on September 15, was organized for the very first batch of incubatees. All the ventures have been assigned an anchor-mentor who will guide them throughout the program. The incubatees will also have access to the large pool of industry experts, IIMB faculty, alumni and resources at NSRCEL during the program.

Other than the agreements and documentation formalities, the day’s activities included walking the ventures through the incubation plan brief, designating anchor mentors, followed by a goal-setting workshop that will facilitate the formulation of the M&E framework to track their progress.

Professor Sourav Mukherji, Dean of Academic Programmes at IIMB and one of the mentors, congratulated the incubatees for having taken up, what he described as, ‘the bold and difficult journey of entrepreneurship’. “Being a social entrepreneur is even tougher. There has to be internal balance between social impact and financial sustainability. However, no learning or experience is great unless it is difficult!”

Prof. Mukherji’s advice of maintaining this balance was echoed by the mentors as well. They advised the incubatees to be rooted in reality while trying to think beyond the norm, take risks, disrupt, and identify and solve difficult problems.

Details of the selected ventures and anchor-mentor profiles

Selected Ventures

1. i-Saksham: Founded by ex-Gandhi fellows Ravi Dhanuka, Aditya Tyagi and Shravan Jha, it aims to enhance learning outcomes by training community youth educators using technology as the main facilitator. It enables these educators to run their own learning centres and meaningfully engage in various other educational activities.

2. Meraki: Brainchild of Seemant Dadwal and Co-founder Ghajal Gulati, it offers solutions for intergenerational burdens that disadvantaged families carry, by equipping parents with knowledge skills and mindset to be able to transform their children’s lives.

3. Mantra4change: It works through school transformation. Khushboo and Santosh, founders of Mantra4Change, explain that through an intensive two-year partnership with schools, Mantra4Change aims to transform the aspects of instructional leadership, teaching-learning processes and the school culture.

4. Tarkeybein Education Foundation (TEF): It develops English language learning tools and training programs for students and teachers. Learning tools are being co-created with children from low-income groups. The core focus is on children building skills of observation, interpretation and expression, and acquiring English language skills in this learning process.

5. Superheros Incorporated: It aims to develop success-oriented mindset and career readiness, along with strengthening technical skills in vocational trainees, in order to provide industries with skilled workforce. Operating through various programs designed for the students at ITIs, it aims to bridge the gap between the supply and demand of the skilled and trained workforce with enhanced employability.

6. Guardians of Dream: It is working towards building an anchor institution to define and consolidate the childcare sector. It is also working to solve critical gaps in research, intervention design, implementation capacity and resource mobilization. In the initial phase, Guardians aims to create and deliver interventions within an institutional framework (children’s homes and orphanages).

7. Bridges of Sports: Founded by Nitish M Chiniwar, it works with children from economically and socially backward communities in the age group of 8-14 years. A network of high quality volunteers, athletes and teachers dedicate two years of their life to the fellowship program and post fellowship, Bridges of Sports supports the fellows to become micro entrepreneurs with a focus on building and accelerating the vibrant sports ecosystem.

8. Anthills Creations: At Anthills Creations, Pooja Rai and Nancy Charaya, alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, are determined to bring back play for kids through building sustainable playscapes by using recyclable material.

Profile of Mentors

1. Professor Sourav Mukherji is the Dean of Academic Programmes at IIMB. Professor Mukherji teaches postgraduate courses on Organization Design and Inclusive Business Models. His current research focus is on inclusive business models – businesses that address the needs of the poor in a financially sustainable manner. In this domain, he has authored many case studies, several of which have been published online by the Harvard Business Press. He has been a consultant to organizations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, advising them on organization design and financial sustainability.

2. Samina Bano: Founder RightWalk, where she is building an inclusive and accountable education system, opening up access for children to an equitable education irrespective of socio-economic status. To do this Samina is building a movement of students, parents, teachers, school administrators, and government officials who are demanding an inclusive education system through policy and implementing it through accountability mechanisms.

3. Rajesh Navaneetham: Rajesh is a Founder-partner in Katalytics Growth Consultants. He works with organizations to help them scale up their operations in India. In doing this, he brings his practical knowledge of more than two decades in the corporate world, where he has successfully set up / scaled up engineering teams and businesses in India.

4. Dipesh Sutariya: Dipesh Sutariya is the Co-founder and CEO of Enable India, a non-profit organization that has been working for the economic independence and dignity of persons with disability across India, since 1999. Dipesh is transforming attitudes towards the employment of people with disability through a growing group of professionals with disability who meet the needs of the corporate sector and who dispel the myths and stereotypes about hiring persons with disability.

5. Rajiv Kuchhal Rajiv is an active angel investor and mentor to multiple start-ups in the social enterprise and technology space. He is an advisor and board member of many such companies and a general partner at Exfinity fund.

6. Naghnma Mulla: Naghma works towards creating and maintaining a sustainable philanthropy network to support the EdelGive investee portfolio with the funder community. She is responsible for and heads the three divisions at EdelGive, namely Investment and Programmes, Fundraising and Partnerships, and Employee Engagement Programme.

7. Naga Prakasam: Nagaraja (Naga) Prakasam is a full-time angel investor who has invested in 16 start-ups and seen three exits. He has spearheaded Impact thinking in Indian Angel Network and co-founded IANImpact. A partner at Acumen Fund, a New York based $100M impact-venture fund, he serves as an Independent Director in one of its portfolio companies. In addition, he directs boards in Uniphore Software Systems, GoCoop – Social Marketplace, Saahas Zero Waste, FreshWorld, Lumiere Organic, SP ROBOTIC WORKS Pvt. Ltd and is a board observer at Happy Hens Farm.

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IIMB’s incubation and innovation hub – the NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) – welcomes the first ever batch of eight social ventures to the NSRCEL Social Program on September 15, 2017.

Anchor-mentors and incubatees of NSRCEL Social at the Induction Program.

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What is International Woman’s Day?

International Woman’s Day:

International Woman’s Day – Think globally and act locally:

How do we increase worldwide gender parity?

However, the answers boil down to money, power, and will.

Investing more on international aid fond of girls and women can help them rise out of poverty and bring their loved ones and communities up with them.

Helping women gain politics power might help empower other girls and women, and help make sure that women’s issues get priority in policy making.

How to Celebrate International Womans Day?

The 1st International Womans Day was celebrated in 1909 to honor the 1908 garment women’s strike in New York. The women were protesting their terrible working circumstances.

International Day Women:

Source: http://www.upcomevent.com/what-is-international-womans-day/

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Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark

Sofía of Greece and Denmark is a member of the Spanish royal family who served as Queen of Spain during the reign of her husband, King Juan Carlos I, from 1975 to 2014.

In addition to Spanish and her native Greek, Queen Sofía also speaks Italian, French, German, Portuguese and English.

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sampark25 · 1 year

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Childhood Care and Education Programme for Migrants Children

#Childhood Care and Education Programme for Migrants Children #ngo in bangalore #early years education and childcare ngo #women helping ngo in banglore

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sampark25 · 2 years

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The role of Early years Education and Childcare NGO- sampark

The Early years Education and Childcare NGO in Bangalore. Sampark org develop community awareness about the behavior, growth and care of the child at various stages. It can be the foundation for emotional wellbeing and learning throughout life and one of the best investments a country and these things came true by Sampark organization. Sampark’s mission is to help vulnerable and poor people, especially women, to gain direct control over and improve their lives.

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sampark25 · 2 years

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Best NGO in bangalore for education - NGO in Bangalore

Sampark org is a NGO in bangalore for education which provides a better education in Bangalore, India, Sampark is a Koramangala based NGO that works extensively in the space of education and women.It runs creche projects for over 300 kids of migrant construction workers across the city.

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sampark25 · 2 years

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Children of Devadasis: Challenges and the Need for Future Reforms

While the existing devadasis continue to suffer repercussions of their dedication, the children of Devadasis too face and grapple with the undeserved struggles that have become bitter remnants of the past – a past which risks ruining their present and future.

Present Challenges

According to a study conducted by Sampark, 62 of 70 Devadasi respondents reported that they had children. When asked if they had ever considered dedicating their children, all made it clear that they would never wish such a life upon their children. Yet, the wishes of a few suffering, helpless women are not what society considers. Despite the practice being illegal, young female children are pressured to become Devadasis to support their families. More often than not, the Devadasi and her children are ostracised by the village community, forcing them to live a life of neither respect nor acceptance.

Early years education and childcare NGO In terms of education, the scenario isn’t great either. Even if one ignores the uncivil comments passed, these children are usually deprived of a good education. The figure below illustrates the answers to the question, “Have your children been educated?” A whopping 23 mentioned that not all of their children had completed schooling, and 12 respondents said that none of their children had. The main reasons cited for non-completion of even primary levels of education were usually a lack of financial security, which forced them to drop out and contribute economically. Another frequently cited reason was the lack of interest from students.

Additionally, the documentation process in most institutions mandates the filing of the father’s name but not the mother’s. Devadasi children are neither allowed to take the names of their fathers nor exercise a right over their properties.

This brings forth the challenge of inheritance and maintenance. While these are important rights in civil law, in the case of Devadasis, since there is no marriage, the children traditionally are considered to be born out of wedlock and are the children of the Devadasi alone. There is an operational hurdle too. Since some Devadasis may cohabit with more than one partner, there are difficulties in ascertaining parentage, responsibility and benefits. The onus of proving parentage is also upon Devadasis which is difficult and compounded by the social dynamics (NCW 2016).

There is thus, at least societally, no onus on the partner to provide for the child. In fact, in the study conducted by Sampark, 42% of respondents mentioned that their partners did not provide for the children at all, while some had not even seen their faces. Similarly, in the NCW study, 82% of Devadasis themselves opined that their children were not able to inherit the property of the father or use their name, while only 6% asserted that they are expected to inherit (NCW 2016). This deprives the children of crucial financial support and assets that could assist social mobility but instead places the burden of care entirely on the Devadasi who is usually already economically vulnerable herself.

What Needs to be Done?

Out of the overall help and support that is provided to Devadasis and their children, the majority comes from NGOs and through informal sources; no absolute help is received from the government especially in terms of rights, healthcare, education and law. Consequently, Devadasis have limited support systems; while the pension provided by the Government helps to a limited extent, more such systems need to be in place. One mechanism is to ensure that the Devadasi community can be channelized in support of each other. While the Government can play some role on this front, an important stakeholder to take this forward would be Civil Society Organizations. Apart from this, steps must be taken to legally ensure that Devadasis receive support from their partners. This can be done by recognizing the partners of Devadasis as has been done in the case of the Domestic Violence Act in the case of Live-in Relationships. The support thus garnered may not necessarily be beneficial directly for Devadasis but may aid them in the development of their children.

Education-wise, these children are eligible to join any course – medical, engineering, IAS, KAS, etc. For the children to have a good foundation, the government must develop measures that ensure that no child is left behind. This must include some form of financial incentives or reservations as well as support in terms of easing their enrolment and access to schooling and higher education. The existing scheme for daughters of Devadasis also needs to be further publicized and possibly reviewed to ensure improved uptake. They also need to be added as beneficiaries of schemes that children of other backward classes are eligible for.

Childcare NGO in Bangalore. Once a good foundation is laid through education, the next key step is to ensure access to good quality livelihoods which also ensures dignity of labour. To achieve this, there needs to be a targeted skill development approach. This will ensure that some of the challenges mentioned by Devadasis concerning their children accessing jobs can be overcome.

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sampark25 · 11 months

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Importance of Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) in the World with a focus on the vulnerable section of India

Research from Harvard University shows that “In the first few years of life, more than 1 million new neural connections are formed every second”¹ (InBrief: The Science of Early Childhood Development, 2007). The graph below also aptly sheds light on the rapid escalation in the development of various functions in the brain of a human, not just in the first few years but in the first few months after birth. Sampark NGO gives Best solution on Best Early Childcare Education

Therefore, the foundational construction of a human brain takes place in the first 6–8 years of their life and the presence of Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) in this phase plays a significant role in deciding if this foundation is robust or frail.

The young brain requires the right nutrition, education and stimulations in the developing stages to ensure that the train for domains like language, cognitive ability, motor skills, emotions, adaptive ability etcetera is set on the right track. Research shows that ECCD is closely tied to the future level of education obtained, job prospects and income status of an individual. In the study “Positioning ECCD in the 21st Century” analysis of a group of children who participated in an ECCD program and a group of children that did not participate in an ECCD program (control group) over 27 years showed that the ECCD program children at the age of 27 “had earnings markedly higher”, “were more likely to be homeowners” and “had formed more stable relationships and marriages” compared to the control group (Arnold, n.d.)³. Hence, when considered cumulatively for the entire younger population it is safe to assert that ECCD holds the power to shape the quality of the life of the future generations and can consequently make drastic changes to the economy of a country.