Pallavi lost her father when she was only one year old, and then her mother a few years later, when she was just five. After the demise of her parents, she and her sister, Usha, were entrusted to her aging grandmother’s care, and both the were enrolled at a...
YGB starts funding 800 students through Project Shale, to combat learning delays and gaps for poor and rural children in India. With increased support from our global supporters during India’s COVID crisis this year, Yoga Gives Back has added an important new program...
Naveen came to Deenabandhu Children’s Home when he was 3 years old. His father had deserted the family when Naveen was only a few months old, leaving him under the care of his maternal grandmother. His grandmother suffered from numerous ailments and diseases, and was...
Schools in India are opening after 18 months of closure and the season of festivals brings hope of resuming business and work for many families devasted by the pandemic and lockdowns. However, hopes of returning to school for many children in India have been...
Introducing Nagaraj: Nagaraj is an art student whom Yoga Gives Back’s SHE program has been supporting since 2016. We first met him at his home in the impoverished village of Chamarjanagara, outside of Mysore, Karnataka. Professor Jayadev – the Director of our...
SHE Scholarship students develop innovative Protection Circle to curb rape and violence against women during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown. In recent article in BBC by, Geeta Pandey outlines a series of horrific rape cases since 2012 that illustrate the...
