If infant mortality rates in rural areas were reduced to those in urban areas, about 80,000 fewer children would die each year. India contributes to one-fifth of the global burden of absolute maternal and infant deaths. What is Infant and Maternal Mortality? Maternal health is closely linked to newborn survival, as vulnerabilities to illness can […]
What is Malnutrition and why is it important to make a stand against it? Malnutrition is—Lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or being unable to use the food that one eats. Malnutrition remains a major threat to the survival, growth and development of children. […]
What sense does it make to say that – “The nation produces too much food, but we still have millions of hungry stomachs”? Let’s see where and what the problem of this unbelievable wastage is? In India, we waste as much food as the whole of United Kingdom consumes. It is an irony that […]
Every year, over four million babies less than one month of age die, most of them during the critical first week of life; and for every newborn who dies, another is stillborn. Most of these deaths are a consequence of the poor health and nutritional status of the mother coupled with inadequate care before, during, […]
A Healthy World Starts with A Healthy Mother”-Very True Indeed!!! Pregnancy and birth are as ordinary and extraordinary as breathing, thinking or loving. And both call on an individual’s creativity, flexibility, endurance and humor. Women’s knowledge-impact birthing experiences— Women rely on many resources when planning a birth and the changes made to a woman’s initial birth […]
What is Malnutrition and why is it important to make a stand against it? Malnutrition is—Lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or being unable to use the food that one eats. Malnutrition remains a major threat to the survival, growth and development of children. […]
The development of a child depends on a range of mutually interacting factors including genetic, individual (e.g., temperament and personality), biological (e.g., health and nutritional status), environmental (e.g., stimulation, quality of mother–child interaction), and cultural (access to education) influences. Millions of children under 5 years of age in low and middle-income countries are failing to […]
If infant mortality rates in rural areas were reduced to those in urban areas, about 80,000 fewer children would die each year. India contributes to one-fifth of the global burden of absolute maternal and infant deaths. What is Infant and Maternal Mortality? Maternal health is closely linked to newborn survival, as vulnerabilities to illness can […]
“Inspiring youth”
When Dr Sai tours the States, coast to coast to create new Ekam Chapters and meet and greet the others, it’s the young ones of the Ekam family that are the most excited. Our EYA.
Ekam youth Ambassadors – EYA are our precious assets and our inspiration.
Starting to ‘serve’ without expectations, ‘do’ without transactional agenda and ‘give ‘ from the heart – at a very young age is the beauty of our EYA movement. An exemplary model of volunteerism in action.
These kids give time for their local neighbourhood needs. They raise funds for the lesser privileged. They even adopt and support villages in India – the homeland of their parents. And when they go to university, they start Ekam Clubs.
As a family, they learn about situations and places way beyond what they know in their cushioned environments. They take up kindness challenges. And journal their service hours to inspire each other.
Their best rewards, they say, are when people like Dr Sai come by and inspire them to do more.
Here is an expression of their love for her and her work.
In a country where around 196 million people and young children remain undernourished, the issue of food wastage is a grave one. But there is hope in the form of a few startups and organizations that are working towards ensuring a ‘no-food-waste’ future for the country. “Food waste or food loss is –food that is discarded or lost uneaten”. […]