Ashwidea, Author at Ashwidea

Published On - December 14, 2018

Ashwidea healthTags: health, volunteering

Volunteering for health

I have been talking about projects which are creating social impact in various ways. These projects typically need funds to keep the good work going. While funds are critical , as part of Blended choices we offer organisations. This includes a good dose of volunteering. This one is from a very innov...

Published On - December 7, 2018

Ashwidea green office, sustainabilityTags: events, recycled, sustainability

Pens, Pencils, Notebooks & Recycled

Amrita University in coimbatore which is hosting the 15th Annual IEEE International convention. They reached out to us to make the conference environment friendly. We supplied pens, pencils and notebooks all made of recycled material. The pencils are dyed in vegetable ink/organic colours.The pens a...

Published On - November 28, 2018

Ashwidea UncategorizedTags: ecofriendly, recycled, sustainability

Pen, Pencil & Green

Take your pick On Left is Pen made of used up magazines, hand rolled On the right is pencil dyed in pink through vegetable ink, made of waste paper as well. Whichever you chose environment is the winner. write to us getgreen@ashwidea,in if you want to buy pens or pencils or if you don’t want...

Published On - November 20, 2018

Ashwidea women empowermentTags: crime, police, women empowerment

women in police , how things are changing

I have been inside a police station , for my passport renewal. It was a pretty smooth process. One of current study shows women come forward to report crimes to women police stations as opposed to regular ones. It was sheer coincidence last week when I read this study and watched an episode on Blue ...

Published On - November 19, 2018

Ashwidea Featured, sanitationTags: sanitation, toilet, water, worldtoiletday

We are building toilets : What happens next ?

Why am I starting Monday with toilets ? Well because we have so many toilets coming up across the country. Its is also #worldtoiletday today urging to everyone to look at Nature for managing our shit. As UNwater poster eloquently says , “Nature calls , Nature Recycles” Simp...

Published On - November 12, 2018

Ashwidea UncategorizedTags: birdwatching, csr, education, environment

Thanks Dr Salim Ali

Its Birdwatchers day today ,which is also Dr Salim Ali’s Birth anniversary. As a Bird watcher( occasional albeit) I am extremely thankful for inspiring us through his book. We at Ashwidea tend to get a bit personal about all matters related to environment ( more about our nuttiness here ) Like...

Published On - November 7, 2018

Ashwidea Uncategorized

Diwali, Calendars et al

Hi Everyone, So, Diwali is on us. We in Bangalore celebrated yesterday (and some today) , while some will be celebrating Today (I could be wrong about this!) Of course with a prayer that let there be less crackers burst, or rains whole day. ( I just read of cloud seeding in delhi to reduce [&helli...

Published On - November 1, 2018

Ashwidea UncategorizedTags: freelancer, probono, webdevelopment

Thank you

Its been over a year or so when we embarked on building our website. Needless to say we underestimated the work needed to put up a website, earlier this year we decided to get some one knows what they are doing. Since we had little idea what it takes , it took us a while […]...

Published On - October 31, 2018

Ashwidea skill developmentTags: financial inclusion, leadership, skill development, women empowerment

Fin to Win

“The way to truly level the playing field is to do our best to teach, mentor and guide all the young people in our lives to make the most of their financial capabilities.” Says Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz Almost similar conversation I have had with Uthara from Buzz India and their work has demo...

Published On - October 22, 2018

Ashwidea FeaturedTags: education, employeegiving, fundraising, history, war

Running for Bangalore & WW1

As you may seen in our previous posts I have been associated with multiple NGOs who have been doing a fabulous job. One of NGOs , Rereeti is focusing on forgotten piece of history , world war 1. Did you know that India supplied the largest volunteer army for World War 1 and Bangalore ( […]...

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