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November 3rd, 2010

Alex Webb: Women Driving Change

For the Women Changing India exhibition, Alex Webb has documented women who work in unconventional professional milieus in India: as security guards, taxi drivers, gas station attendants, publishers for an independent publishing venture… [...]

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Isabelle Palsky

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September 29th, 2010

Tree Planting, Take II: Green Revolution in India

This past July, 60 employees across various BNP Paribas India entities came together to take part in “Green Revolution”, the territory’s tree plantation initiative for a low-carbon economy. They traveled to a trip to a rural village in Bhiwandi about 100 kilometers from Mumbai. Set in the West Coast of India, the area is characterized [...]

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Pooja Poojary

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September 15th, 2010

The Common Land Regeneration Programme in India

The Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), founded in 2001 in India, strives to protect and regenerate the country’s natural resources. They work with 1,526 village institutions in 27 districts across six states, and assist the village communities in protecting 107,094 hectares of revenue wastelands, degraded forestlands and grazing lands.
In keeping with its eco-restoration efforts [...]

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Pooja Poojary

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September 7th, 2010

Natural, sustainable solutions in India

Since 1993, SKG Sangha, an Indian NGO, has been focused on sustainable development solutions in the region of Karnataka. In particular, it installs biogas digestors for rural families located primarily in the south of India, and also promotes vermicomposting.
But what are biogas digestors?
An alternative to traditional cookstoves, they can be used for or cooking and [...]

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Lily Dionne

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July 23rd, 2010

Mission: Microfinance in India

As an employee of BNP Paribas Fortis, I took a few months’ leave of absence to go to India. I was to assist the management of ESAF Microfinance and Investments (Private) Ltd. (EMFIL) in implementing their growth strategy and in establishing a social performance management system.
Based in Thrissur, in the state of Kerala, this microfinance [...]

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Noémie Rénier

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May 21st, 2010

Calcutta, from the street to the school

They wander the streets of Calcutta in their millions, in search of a livelihood; millions of children who live in squats, in shacks, on sidewalks … the majority are immigrants, clearly extremely poor, and are either orphans or have only one parent to support them.
Under these circumstances, where drug trafficking and sexual abuse are [...]

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