Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hailed 'Vatsalyagram' project of VHP leader Sadhvi Ritambhara. "If one was to truly understand Sadhvi Ritambharaji and her work, one must also look at her role in building Vatsalyagram," Modi said.
He was addressing a gathering on the occasion of the ground-breaking ceremony of Vatsalyagram (shelter village) at Mahisa village in Kheda district. Vatsalyagram, co-founded by Sadhvi Ritambhara, under the auspices of Param Shakti Peeth, is a combination of an orphanage, an old-age home and a widow-shelter where orphan kids, widows and elders live like a family.
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01:38 AM, May 21, 2013
Jaipur: In a shocking case of alleged sexual assault and harassment, 10 more differently-abled girls have revealed they were victim to the abuse. Five people were arrested on Saturday for sexually assaulting the orphaned girls at a residential therapy centre in Jaipur. Earlier, the therapy centre's warden, accountant and his wife, a security guard and an administrator were arrested in connection with the case. The therapy centre Awaaz Foundation was...
07:11 PM, May 20, 2013
Thane: Failing to trace their parents, authorities here have decided to hand over, for now, two girls who were rescued from debris of the unauthorised building that collapsed in Shil Phata area here to an orphanage. One of the girls is an 8 months old baby while the other is six years old and her name is Sandhya. Their families could not be traced. At present lady police constables are...
04:54 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Ramchandra Karanjule, who founded a woman and child shelter home in Panvel, has been sentenced to death by the Mumbai sessions court for raping and killing mentally challenged girls. Five others, who helped Karanjule in carrying out the heinous crime, have also been convicted in the case with two of them getting life terms. ...
04:53 PM, Mar 21, 2013
As the country marks two years of being polio free, CNN-IBN brings the story of Ramesh Ferris. Fighting all odds and biases against children with polio, the crusader is spreading awareness about the disease. ...
01:11 PM, Jan 14, 2013
At least 12 more men have died after drinking adulterated cough syrup in Pakistan's Punjab province, taking the death toll since November to 40, officials said on Saturday. The total number of deaths this week has risen to 20, health officials said. ...
06:15 PM, Dec 29, 2012
President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children, part of a harsh response to a US law targeting Russians deemed to be human rights violators. Although some top Russian officials including the foreign minister openly opposed the bill and Putin himself had been noncommittal about it last week, he signed it less than 24 hours after receiving it from parliament, where both houses passed...
08:16 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Bokaro: A eunuch in Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand, is toiling hard to bring up destitute and orphan kids. She takes care of them till they are married off. Mother to 13 kids so far, she doesn't believe in any grants or awards. Some would say God hasn't been kind to her, but Raj Kumari has made a living out of being kind to everyone, specially orphaned and destitute kids. Kumari,...
08:52 AM, Nov 16, 2012
Visakhapatnam: An orphanage director was on Sunday arrested for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl inmate, police said. Swami Poornananda (52) was apprehended under section section 376 (punishment for rape) of the IPC after the victim lodged a complaint against him, they said. The accused is head of the city-based Swami Gnananda Ashram which houses an orphanage and old-age home. He was picked up from the Ashram premises along with a...
11:59 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Bulandshahr: An orphan girl was allegedly sold for Rs 50,000 by one of her friends in Aligarh district, police said. The girl, who belonged to Tanda area in Bulandshahr, was taken to Aligarh by her classmate with the help of some of her accomplices on July 20, Superintendent of Police, Bulandshahr, Srikant Yadav said. The girl was sold for Rs 50,000 in Aligarh, the SP said. A case was registered...
10:56 PM, Aug 03, 2012
London: The Amazing Spider Man star Andrew Garfield has been appointed as an ambassador for the Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO). Garfield, 28, who plays orphaned Peter Parker in the superhero reboot, visited parent less kids in Ethiopia and Haiti with the organisation earlier this year, reported Contactmusic. Garfield and his real-life girlfriend and co-star Emma Stone turned out to support founder Dr Jane Aronson at a charity party for the...
08:36 PM, Jul 01, 2012
Jamshedpur: In Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district, Kantha Singh is a father to 65 orphaned children. His extraordinary work fetched him the CNN-IBN Real Hero award in 2010. But two years down the line, Kantha Singh is facing the biggest challenge of his life. He doesn't have enough money to take care of his ailing wife. His wife is suffering from cancer and Kantha is helpless. He has been languishing in...
10:50 AM, May 15, 2012
Nagapattinam: A couple lost all their three chilren in the 2004 tsunami. But in sorrow the couple, Parmeshwaran and Chudamani, found a new reason to live when they reached out to the many children who were orphaned by the same tsunami in Nagappatinam. Today 26 children can dream of a future because of the couple. As the tsunami swept through the coasts of Nagapattinam in 2004, Parmeshwaran and Chudamani lost...
09:10 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Pune: Beaten up and thrown out of her house by her husband at a very young age, Sindhutai Sapkal lived on the streets till she found her calling in life. She is now a mother to many abandoned children and runs four homes in Pune. It was three years ago, when a baby, Sakshi, was found in the corn field of a village in Maharashtra, without any shelter, warmth or...
09:03 AM, Feb 20, 2012
Bhopal: A unique village provides a strong support system to the orphans in Bhopal. The SOS village is not just a school but also home attracting women from across India to turn caregivers and help the children realise their dreams. Anudeep, abandoned when she was 3 months old, is one of the 100 differently abled children, living and studying in the SOS village in Bhopal. Her mental faculties are underdeveloped...
09:26 AM, Dec 22, 2011
A Choir group, run by an NGO, has been denied US Visa despite their NGO having an invitation from a US body. ...
11:07 PM, Nov 22, 2011
New Delhi: Eight young Indians, all orphans and part of a Choir group run by an NGO, have been denied a US Visa despite their NGO having an invitation from a US body. "It means that we are orphans so we can't dream," said an orphan. "We practiced for eight months. Now it will all go waste," said another orphan. It's a dream 22-year-old Pinky Biswas and her team of...
08:08 PM, Nov 22, 2011
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06:56 PM, Aug 06, 2011
Sendai: Japanese authorities have launched a massive search for hundreds of orphaned children in Iwate, one of the three northeastern prefectures that suffered maximum deaths in the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami on March 11. The child welfare experts will initially work in groups of three and look for children without parents at evacuation shelters along with people in charge at the shelters. If there are any children who have no...
04:01 PM, Mar 27, 2011
New Delhi: On Monday, CNN-IBN brought the story of six-month old Chiku alias Stephen, who suffered a brain hemorrhage during delivery. His parents abandoned him saying it was the hospital's duty to cure him as they were unable to look after him in his present state. Chiku's case is not the only case. Two-year old Suhasini is one of the many abandoned children looked after by the Delhi Council for...
09:03 AM, Jan 05, 2011
