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Education (Drama): Listen to a Drama on the importance of Education.
Girl's Education(Drama): You can hear a Drama on Girl's Education recorded by NGO Chetnalaya
Education (Chetnalaya): Education has ever been looked at Indian culture as a holistic effort since time immemorial. Indian culture is in the core attributes of education beginning from ”Gurukul” type of education, where the disciples lived in the house of the Master who taught them what all things he knew for years together.
Health (Chetnalaya): The most widely accepted definition of good health is that of the World Health Organization Constitution. It states that "health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.
women's Education (Chetnalaya): Access to education has been one of the most pressing demands of theses women's rights movements. Women's education in India has also been a major preoccupation of both the government and civil society as educated women can play a very important role in the development of the country.
women's empowerment (Chetnalaya): In traditional societies, even more than elsewhere, women's empowerment does not occur easily or overnight. In the India case described, there was evidence of such change beginning, to which the project had apparently contributed. It was most noticeable among certain types of women.
HIV AIDS (Drama): You can hear a Drama on HIV AIDS
HIV AIDS (chetnalaya): India has a population of one billion, around half of whom are adults in the sexually active age group. The first AIDS case in India was detected in 1986; since then HIV infection has been reported in all states and union territories.
First Aid: First aid is the provision of limited care for an illness or injury, which is provided, usually by a lay person, to a sick or injured patient until definitive medical treatment can be accessed,
Rashan Card ( Chetnalaya): A Ration Card is a document issued under an order or authority of the State Government, as per the Public Distribution System, for the purchase of essential commodities from fair price shops.
Malaria: Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium, which is transmitted via the bites of infected mosquitoes. In the human body, the parasites multiply in the liver, and then infect red blood cells.
Disability (Chetnalaya): A physical or mental deficiency that prevents normal achievement is known as Disability. It has affected about 600 million persons at globally. The major part of this was in developing countries. The social model of disability can make a distinction between the disabling effects of society and impairment. Disability is a social concept.
Climate change: Climate change is one of the most critical global challenges of our time. Recent events have emphatically demonstrated our growing vulnerability to climate change. Climate change impacts will range from affecting agriculture- further endangering food security-, sea-level rise and the accelerated erosion of coastal zones, increasing intensity of natural disasters, species extinction and the spread of vector-borne diseases.
Vocational courses: The main objective of vocational education and training is to prepare persons, especially the youth in the age group 15-25 years, for the world of work and make them employable for a broad range of occupations in various industries and other economic sectors.
HIV AIDS: India has among the highest number of persons living with HIV/AIDS in the world today, although the overall prevalence remains low. Some states experience a generalized epidemic with the virus transmitted from high-risk groups into the general population.
Men's responsibilities: Move over women, it is time for men to observe their day to highlight discrimination against them and project their contributions and achievements. A voluntary organization — Save Family Foundation — has decided to observe November 19 as International Men’s Day with a view to recognize the valuable contribution made by men.
Childern's Day: Children's day in India is celebrated on Pandit Nehru's birthday as a day of fun and frolic, a celebration of childhood, children and Nehruji's love for them. Chacha Nehru as the children fondly referred to him, was fond of both children and roses.
Diwali Festival: Diwali is a major Indian festival that is very significant in Hinduism and Jainism. Celebrated by approximately 1 billion Hindus and Jains and known as the "Festival of Lights," it symbolizes the victory of good over evil, and lamps .are lit as a sign of celebration and hope for humankind. The lights also represent the time when Rama came back from the forest, and all his village lit lamps to welcome him back home.
Disability (Drama) (Chetnalaya): A Drama on a disabled child recorded by NGO Chetnalaya.
Child labor ( Chetnalaya): A child is defined as a person under the age of 18. Child labor is work undertaken by a child that is harmful to them in some way. The labor could be harmful by making those sick, stopping them from getting an education or damaging them emotionally.
Women's Empowerment (Chetnalaya): The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. -- Charles Fourier
Rainwater Harwesting: RainWater harvesting is the activity of direct collection of rainwater. The rainwater collected can be stored for direct use or can be recharged into the groundwater. Rain is the first form of water that we know in the hydrological cycle, hence is a primary source of water for us.
The Story of Dalit Women: Even as compared to dalit men, dalit women do not have equal access to employment opportunities or justice mechanisms. They must contend with threats to their personal security, including trafficking and sexual violence. “The dalit woman faces triple discrimination because she is an untouchable, of a poor class and is a woman,” the report quotes the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NACDOR) as saying.
The World of Depression: Depression is not something you can just "snap out of." It's caused by an imbalance of brain chemicals, along with other factors. Like any serious medical condition, depression needs to be treated.
STAND UP SPEAK OUT against Poverty: STAND UP SPEAK OUT is a worldwide call to take action against poverty and inequality and for the Millennium Development Goals.
When Disaster Strikes: To build a safer and disaster resilient India by developing a holistic, pro-active, multi-disaster and technology-driven strategy for disaster management through collective efforts of all Government Agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations
Breast-feeding: Breast feeding enhances cognitive development in the baby, augments mother-baby bonding and also happens to be economical and convenient
Child Labour in India: Child labor in India is a grave and extensive problem. Children under the age of 14 are forced to work in glass-blowing, fireworks, and most commonly, carpet-making factories.
Tuberculosis: Tuberculosis is an airborne infectious disease that is preventable and curable. People ill with TB bacteria in their lungs can infect others when they cough. In 2005, 8.8 million people fell ill with TB and 1.6 million died. If persons with infectious TB are detected early and fully treated, they quickly become non-infectious and then cured.
Greens of Delhi: Here's a breath of fresh air. Delhi is officially a green city. The latest Forest Survey of India study shows that forest cover of Delhi has increased from 151 sq km to 228 sq km.
Child Sex Abuse: Child abuse can be defined as a physical violation of a child's body through any sort of sexual contact or a psychological violation of the child through verbal or nonverbal behavior. It is neglectful, disrespectful and hurtful because it violates a child's basic rights to be protected, nurtured and guided through childhood.
Girl Education: Although it is heartening to note that the growth in female literacy has been higher at 14.87 percent than males at 11.72 percent during this decade, it still trails male literacy by more than 21 percentage points.
Dengue: Dengue Fever is an infectious disease which is characterized by severe pains in the eyes, head, and extremities. It is transmitted by the bite of a mosquito.
Obesity-a rising problem: Obesity means having too much body fat. It is different from being overweight, which means weighing too much. The weight may come from muscle, bone, fat and/or body water. Both terms mean that a person's weight is greater than what's considered healthy for his or her height.
Exam Stress: Examinations are a time of anxiety and nervousness -- not only for the students but also the parents. To increase productivity and take the exams well, it is also necessary -- besides studying hard -- to focus on eating habits, sleep patterns, mental and physical fitness.
Festivals-Cetebrate Life!: Festivals in India are characterized by color, gaiety, enthusiasm, prayers and rituals. Foreign travelers are struck by the scale and multiplicity of Indian festivals that have evolved in the society.
Evils of Child Labour: The problem of child labour continues to pose a challenge before the nation. Government has been taking various pro-active measures to tackle this problem. However, considering the magnitude and extent of the problem and that it is essentially a socio-economic problem inextricably linked to poverty and illiteracy, it requires concerted efforts from all sections of the society to make a dent in the problem.
community Radio: Community Radio or Informed Radio refers to a type of radio service catering to the interests of a specific area, broadcasting material...
Change of Season & Health: Weather is considered a possible influence on a wide variety of health conditions. In some cases, such as migraine headaches, weather may bring on an episode. In other cases, weather factors may make existing pain worse.
Breast Cancer: Other than skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women. Breast cancer mostly occurs in women over the age of 50, and the risk is especially high for women over age 60.
Curb Female Foeticide: Sex ratio in India is getting more and more disproportionate over the years. Unfortunately the educated and the elite still seem to consider their male child a status symbol, and thereby partake in creating an imbalance in the male-female sex ratio
Health Day Special: Each year on April 7th, the world celebrates World Health Day. On this day around the globe, thousands of events mark the importance of health for productive and happy lives.
Stop Smoking Start Living!: There's no way around it. Smoking is bad for your health. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. Cigarette smoking causes 87 percent of lung cancer deaths. It is also responsible for many other cancers and health problems.
Water is Precious!!!: We can no longer take water for granted! So here's some tips for saving water - and using it more wisely.
Self-Help Groups - A keystone of Microfinance in India: Making real change by engaging with the people of the community, through organizations called “Self-Helf Groups” (SHG). A typical SHG consists of 25-30 women working to improve the socio-economic conditions of the villages. The other programs are implemented through these SHGs, empowering all the beneficiaries but particularly women.
MDGs: The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest.
Vocational Education in India: With the job market shrinking, academic degrees alone do not ensure a livelihood. This is one reason why more and more college and university students simultaneously diversify into various “vocational and professional courses” to supplement as well as complement their academic qualifications.
"Nine is Mine" campaign: Launched by more than 4,500 children in Delhi, India on October 16 2006, the Nine is Mine campaign is a participatory children's advocacy initiative to call for 9% of the gross domestic product (GDP) to be committed to health and education.
Programmes from Srilanka: Radio Programmes from Sri Lanka on development.
Exam-time NUTRITION: Stress is a psychological and physiological response to events that upset our personal balance in some way. In children it usually happens in the exam time.They fell pressure due to the exams preparation. So due to the stress children don’t eat well, they first of all give up the food. But a nutritious food is very essential for the children in the exam time.
Women Empowerment: Gender discrimination continues to be an enormous problem within Indian society. Traditional patriarchal norms have relegated women to secondary status within the household and workplace.
Happy Teacher's Day: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. That's exactly what a teacher has done for us and we celebrate this joyous occasion of Teachers Day in remembrance of the birthday of the greatest teacher of India - Dr. S. Radhakrishnan.
Teachers Day
Female Foeticide - a sin!: Female foeticide is an extreme manifestation of violence against women. Female fetuses are selectively aborted after pre-natal sex determination, thus avoiding the birth of girls.
Dengue: Dengue is the most common mosquito-borne viral disease of humans that in recent years has become a major international public health concern. It is transmitted by the main vector, the Aedes aegytpi mosquito.
Dengue Fever
Celebrating 61 years of Independence: To the nations and peoples of the world we send greetings and pledge ourselves to cooperate with them in furthering peace, freedom and democracy.
15th August
National Flag
100th Episode Celebration: Shring the voices of Ek Duniya Fellows on thier experience so far and their views on the Millennium Development Goals.
Ek Duniya Fellows
100th Episode Clelebration
Stress Management: “Stress” is a part of day to day living. As college students, we may experience stress meeting academic demands, adjusting to a new living environment, or developing friendships.
Stress
Can Anyone Solve the Problem of Traffic?: Neglecting Traffic Rules is one of the main reasons for Traffic Jams and Road Accidents. As everyday due to the silly mistakes of vehicle drivers many accidents takes place.
Traffic Jams
Career Guidance: Career planning and decision making is one of the most crucial aspects of an individual's life. Career is an important factor that will have a lasting effect on both individual and the community at large.
Career Guidance
Career
Cholera: “Modern sewage and water treatment facilities have virtually eliminated cholera in industrialized nations; The risk of epidemics is highest when poverty, war or natural disasters force people to live in crowded conditions without adequate sanitation.
Cholera
Autism: “Autism” is a complex developmental disability that typically appears in children, during the first three years of life. The result of a neurological disorder, autism is four times more prevalent in boys than girls and knows no racial, ethnic or social boundaries.
Autism
Immunization: For the prevention of the diseases it is necessary, that every child have all the essential vaccines, at the suitable time period of their birth. By this step we can make the country more prosperous as well as good in health.
Immunization
HIV/AIDS: Remember AIDS does not discriminate caste, creed, and race, and religion, educational or social status. Prevention of AIDS is our joint responsibility. Education and awareness is the only weapon in our hand. Let us accept the challenge to fight against AIDS. We must support and care for the people with HIV / AIDS with compassion and understanding.
HIV/AIDS in India
Self Defence Training -a Must!!: “Self Defense” means defending or protecting oneself in Life threatening situations using any method possible. The methods may range from anything like playing with the attacker's mind, disarming him with things like Pepper Sprays, Stun Guns etc. to physically harming him using certain deadly techniques like Karate, Aikido, etc.
Self Defence Training
Self Defence Classes
Waste Management: From the environmental point of view, it is necessary to curb the growing quantities of waste and regard waste as a resource which must, as far as possible, be returned to the industrial or raw material cycle.
Waste
“Right to Information”: RTI stands for Right to Information. Right to Information is a part of fundamental rights under Article 19(1) of the Constitution.The citizens therefore, have a right to know how their money was being spent. These three principles were laid down by the Supreme Court while saying that RTI is a part of our fundamental rights.
Right To Information
National Minorities Development and Finance Corporation: The NMDFC was set up in 1995 to remove the widespread poverty and economic under-growth among minority communities and to tackle their educational and social backwardness.
NMDFC
Respect Human Rights: The "largest democracy in the world" does not have a clean human rights records. Every year, thousands of people are imprisoned for political reasons, often without charges of trials. Torture and ill-treatment are common, and hundreds have died in custody.
Human Rights
Staying Healthy in Rainy Season: The rainy season has indeed arrived and if the downpours of the last few weeks are any indication, we are in for a very wet rainy season this year. While the rains are a boon to farmers and welcomed by practically everyone who has been praying for ample water supply and respite from the sweltering heat, they bring with them the specter of disease.
Cold & Cough
Domestic Violence - an untold story: Domestic Violence isn't just hitting, or fighting, or an occasional argument. It's an abuse of power. The abuser tortures and controls the victim by calculated threats, intimidation, and physical violence. . Although both men and women can be abused, in most cases, the victims are women.
Domestic Violence
Disaster Management: A natural hazard is a situation which has the potential to create an event that has an effect on people. They result from natural processes in the environment and some natural hazards are related - earthquakes can result in tsunamis, drought can lead directly to famine and disease, and so on.
Disaster
Fighting Prejudice called Disability: Disability and poverty are intricately linked. Disability causes poverty and poverty exacerbates disability – people with disabilities are among the poorest and most vulnerable. Global estimates indicate that at least ten percent of the world’s population lives with some form of disability.
Disability
Child Mortality: Child mortality is closely linked to poverty, short preceding birth intervals, malnutrition, hygiene; lack of maternal care related education may lead to an increased risk of mortality.
Child Mortality
Child Labour in India: Child labor in India is more of a rural than urban phenomenon. Approximately, 90 per cent of the working children in the rural areas are employed in agriculture and allied activities. The unorganized and informal sectors, both in urban and rural areas, account for almost the entire child labor force.
child labour in India
Child Labour: The Government is determined to eliminate all forms of child labour by 2020. Indeed, poverty eradication combined with educational reforms to provide free or affordable access to quality education with an interesting, innovative and job-oriented curriculum for all can effectively eliminate child labour once and for all.
Child Labour
Anaemia: Anaemia is characterized by a low level of hemoglobin in the blood. Hemoglobin is necessary for transporting oxygen from the lungs to other tissues and organs of the body. Anaemia usually Results from a nutritional deficiency of iron, foliate, vitamin B12, or some other nutrients
Fire Trouble: All disasters, whether flood, earthquake, cyclone, drought or extensive fire, inevitably cause upheavals not only in the physical but also in the social and economic context where they occur. Fire of vast proportions can moreover cause damage to the surrounding environment.
Fire
Disability: The disabled need our empathy and not our sympathy. They can be as capable as the rest of us, we only need to recognize and encourage the potential in them.
Population: The burgeoning population is a curse for the development of our country. But this very curse can be transformed into a driver of our country’s progress when it is harnessed and channelised in the proper way.
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan is the most comprehensive and ambitious programme on education undertaken by our Government till date, aiming to provide free and compulsory primary education across the country, to every child between 6 to 14 years of age.
Alcoholism: Alcohol addiction is a disease; in addition to destroying the life of the addict it affects his family also. Increased social acceptance of drinking has made it difficult to address this problem.
Women Education: Education of girls should be one of the foremost social objectives in our society. Development and welfare of any nation can be possible in its truest form only when its women populace is educated and empowered.
Breast Cancer: Breast cancer is one the most dangerous maladies of our times. Information, awareness and timely remedial steps are the measures that can be taken to fight this threat.
Burden of Child Labour: Working from an early age robs children of their childhood. This brings in a lot of negativity and depression in the minds of the children. The child is not able to enjoy his life and thinks of life as a burden. Sometimes they even tend to develop suicidal ideas.
Earth Day: The earth is witnessing an unprecedented destruction of its environment today – with virgin forests being slashed down and poisons of all kinds being spewed into its air, water and land.
Respect Animals: Animals are living beings and their right to life needs to be respected.
Health is Wealth: Health is wealth and the loss of health is the loss of wealth - this is a saying which is used very commonly by people but is not applied as commonly.
Female Foeticide: Female foeticide apart from being one of the greatest evils in our country today is a blot on our society. If it is not corrected its consequences will endanger the very existence of our society itself!
Global Warming: There is a direct link between the industrial revolution of the 19th century and the problem of global warming in the present century. To tackle this problem we need to strike at its root cause and see that emissions of greenhouse gases are contained within safe limits.