Helping villagers with proper roofs over their heads in Raigad village
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NGO promotes gender equality in the north
Executive Director of the Northern Sector Action on Awareness Centre (NORSAAC), Alhassan Mohammed Awal, has called for an end to outmoded customary practices which contribute to social and economic marginalization of young females in the society.
With emphasis on Northern Ghana where social exclusion of women in decision making is pervasive, he said NORSAAC would not give up its desire to nurture young females to assume their rightful positions in life..More Read
Haul up Malay NGO for seditious PTPTN remark, says UM student leader.
The coalition of Malay rights groups should be charged under the Sedition Act for suggesting only Bumiputeras be exempted from repaying their National Higher Education Fund (PTPTN) loans, says a Universiti Malaya student leader today.
The Universiti Malaya Students Association (PMUM) president Fahmi Zainol said that Putrajaya should wield the Act against the coalition for making the ethno-centric statement that could incite racial tension among the multi-ethnic community in the country.
"How about prosecuting them under the Sedition Act because they are creating tension among the races. How was it that others can be hauled up but they are not?
"Maybe the NGOs are cronies to the ruling coalition... But I feel they should be brought to justice for coming up with such a statement," he told The Malaysian Insider.
It was reported yesterday that the coalition of Malay rights groups, led by Perkasa, urged Putrajaya to consider allowing only excelling Bumiputeras to be exempted from repaying their PTPTN loan.
In their National Unity Memorandum, drafted by a committee headed by Perkasa chief Datuk Ibrahim Ali, the group also wanted Putrajaya to take immediate action over the phenomenon of many non-Bumiputeras being exempted 100% from PTPTN.
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Take a bow, young lady!
In the coming months, Vanita Kariappa, 20, may well have shut down Rangmanch, the NGO she co-founded and take up a teaching position to support herself and her mother.
She is really hoping she doesn't have to do that. Because even as she is empowering children from low-income communities in Mumbai, they are enriching her life too.
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Take a bow, young lady!
Last updated on: November 18, 2014 00:09 IST
In the coming months, Vanita Kariappa, 20, may well have shut down Rangmanch, the NGO she co-founded and take up a teaching position to support herself and her mother.
She is really hoping she doesn't have to do that. Because even as she is empowering children from low-income communities in Mumbai, they are enriching her life too.
This is her story:
Vanita Kariappa is learning to be patient.
Her class was to have started a little over 40 minutes ago but the kids are yet to settle down.
In fact all of them -- Vanita included -- are just about done clearing up the mess that someone left behind.
For the 'class' is a stage located at the entrance of a chawl and a slum in south Mumbai.
It serves as a platform for a theatre or a dance or music performance.
There is a huge cricket scoreboard resting against one of the walls, a table tennis table on one side and assorted objects of all shapes and sizes lining the three walls.
Vanita visits this community space twice every week -- on Saturday and Sunday -- to teach the kids from the surrounding chawls and slums about theatre and the performing arts under the aegis of Rangmanch, an NGO she has co-founded.
The classes start at 4 pm and last two hours.
Today there has been a 40-minute delay because someone who used this space before didn't bother cleaning up.
Things like this, Vanita says, have taught her to be patient.
"If I plan something, I like to see it accomplished," she says. "But when it comes to dealing with kids, plans always go haywire!"
But Vanita, 20, cannot imagine herself doing anything other than working with children.
She would rather spend her weekends organising classes for kids and then attend a meeting to discuss her learnings with the other co-founders rather than go partying like most kids her age would.
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NGO retiree decries withheld benefits
A RETIREE of a now-defunct non-government organization (NGO) has cried foul over the delay in the grant of her retirement benefits despite securing an order from the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) asking the NGO to pay her.
Claimant Andrea Maria Patricia Sarenas, a retired deputy director of the now-defunct Mindanao Commission on Women (MCW), told Sun.Star Davao through Facebook chat that she has been denied her retirement benefit worth P437,499.99, thus she filed a money claim with NLRC.
She retired from the NGO in 2012 and has been following up the payment of her retirement benefits ever since.
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