Hong Kong-Based Yogesh Shah Runs Multinational Business Students and their parents who are wrecked by anxiety about academic performance can draw inspiration and hope from this NRG achiever who failed the SSC exam,but today is a successful entrepreneur and respected business leader. Yogesh Shah, 48, emigrated to Hong Kong from here about 25 years ago […]
Continue readingUS national sponsors 30 Vadaj slum kids
Moved by the disheartening plight of riot victims, Brad Baldwin, a US national from Virginia, first came to Ahmedabad in March 2002 to help underprivileged children. To spread the message of peace, he produced a musical stage play titled EKTA with 14 riot affected street children. Continuing his decade-ling association with the city, he has […]
Continue readingState opens window to Hindi for foreign students
Simon Bolz, 52, is learning to speak in Hindi at Gujarat Vidyapith. Bolz, a passionate photographer from Germany, loves to spend time in desert of Kutch and has done extensive photography in deserts of Rajasthan too. During her extended stay in India, she needs to communicate with various people and that need has compelled her […]
Continue readingBehind bars, they seek freedom in industry
Next time you go to pick up the famous bhajias that Sabarmati Central Jail inmates prepare, consider picking a fabric or home décor piece made by the women inmates as well. In a bid to make women self-reliant and productive, international women’s wing of Vishwa Gujarati Samaj is setting up permanent industrial unit for women […]
Continue readingCivil servant’s uniform charity code brightens rural schools
Many of us are used to getting our children school uniforms for the new academic year. One man thought of putting the discarded uniforms to good use by donating them to children in community schools in remote villages, and also recycling them for use of those who do not know what a school uniform is. […]
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