Stories of Transformation
Stories of Transformation
UN’masking’ Opportunities
Trained by the NGO Awahaan, the women of a local self-help group in Sarojini Nagar Basti in Lucknow were stitching school uniforms, augmenting their family income. With the center in lockdown and the women self-isolating, income sources were drying up. This put both livelihood and health in peril, so they decided to turn their skills to stitching masks – a 24 cm by 15 cm cloth piece that…
HCL Grant Impact – Innovative methods to transform lives by…
#HCLGrant Recipient 2017, Child in Need Institute @CINI with support from #HCLGrant aims to create a community based safety-net for better health & nutrition outcomes for children, adolescents, and women of West Bengal. One of the objectives of HCL Grant is to award financial Grant to #innovative, #replicable, #scalable, #sustainable & time-bound project, proposed by #NGOs which are…
ENSURING ADOLSCENT HEALTH in Madurai
Madurai tops the National chart on Anemia. Out of 10,291 screened, 52% of the adolescents were at risk of anemia. Following HCL Foundation’s intervention, 5534 students kept under follow up – with Nutrition supplements. The Hb levels of 811 students increased from < 9 gm/dl to 10.9 gm/dl. Hb level of 485 students increased from < 9 gm/dl to 11.9 gm/dl
335 out of school children mainstreamed in Noida
Her parents are migrant daily wage workers from Bihar who came to NOIDA looking for better work opportunities 5 years ago. While their parents would be away at work, she took care of her younger brothers. The HCL Gurukul teachers counseled the parents and enrolled Vartika & her brother at the bridge education center in Barola in 2017. Soon, Vartika was mainstreamed at Barola Upper Primary…