Browsing Tag: Poor

The 'Swat' team say they decided to take the concept of Langar outside its traditional setting in temples and out onto the streets when they saw a growing homelessness problem in London.

The planet must not be allowed to warm beyond 2 degrees Celsius, according to the official targets at the Climate Change Conference in Doha. But a new study shows the goal is far from realistic. Current human activity is set to increase the temperature by some 5 degrees, and the consequences will be dire, scientists warn.

It is a cold evening in Santiago de Chile. Like every Thursday for the last 9 years, a group of yoga students gather under one common goal. To serve and bring food to some of the many homeless people that live on the streets in Santiago, Chile.

The Indian Supreme Court is scheduled Wednesday to take up a case that aid agencies warn could have sweeping effects on the price of medicine for the global poor.

With blessings of the almighty, it was a dream come true for 22 Sikh couples who got married in a befitting manner without spending a penny, that too in the presence of over 25,000 Sikhs who came from across the country to bless the newly wed couples.

Calling out to the poor and down-trodden over the past five years, the centre, which is a unit of the Guru Nanak Charitable Trust, has been providing quality medical services at highly subsidised prices at a time when health care costs are sky-high.

I am a poor janitorial safai-karamchari worker. I was serving in a gurdwara. Then, I made the mistake of stealing one rupee, less than three cents, from the golak.

The pity is that in a world where so many people die of hunger everyday, there are buckets and buckets of milk drained in the name of holiness, cleanliness and faith. As I watched the video I felt like as if we haven’t really learned to live our Guru’s teachings.

This investigation into religious food charities in Delhi became a fascinating journey, not just into the survival strategies of Delhi's poorest, but the shrinking spaces in the hearts of India's middle class.

India introduced a cheap tablet computer Wednesday, saying it would deliver modern technology to the countryside to help lift villagers out of poverty. ...latest in a series of "world's cheapest" innovations in India that include a $2,040 compact Nano car, a $15 water purifier and $2,000 open-heart surgery.

Even more importantly, the generics companies will also be allowed to make combinations of drugs from different companies (provided other companies follow Gilead's lead). In an ideal world, anybody with HIV who needed medication would be able to take a single pill once a day in which three or four medicines are combined.

SKS was once seen as a model for how microcredit firms could do very well for themselves by making loans as small as $50 to basket weavers and other poor people. Now the company, which last week reported its first loss as a public company, seems to symbolize the problems of microfinance in India.

Guru Nanak Medical Centre, Secunderabad has been doing a yeomen service for the poor and down-trodden people in providing quality medical services at highly subsidised costs since last three years.

Most people once settled into the comforts of the western countries even forget their roots back in India. Canadian citizen Dr. Naurang Singh Mangat on the contrary left his family back in Calgary, and made reverse journey to Punjab that too with a sole purpose of bringing some comfort to the poor and destitute.

The mass feeding programme commenced in the presence of Secunderabad, MP, Anjan Kumar Yadav and more than 5,000 poor persons were fed from 12.30 pm to 8 pm.

Gurpratap Singh - putting the smile back on these children is the greatest reward and he feels blessed that God has gifted him with such a skill

On Sunday, marriages of 18 couples were solemnised at the fifth `` Samuhik Vivaha Samagam" (Mass marriage) under one roof at Gurudwara Saheb Barambala, in the presence of head priest Baba Jyotinder Singhji of Takhat Sachkhand Sri Hazur Sahib, Nanded, Maharastra.

Under a new plan backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the mobile industry will be given a kickstart to give those in the developing regions their first bank account - on their mobiles.