Adoption

“I want my daughter to know that having a single parent does not mean that her family is incomplete. I want her to stand up against all the mocking, and proudly declare that she was raised by a single mother.”

Kavitha has made it her life’s mission to spread awareness on Down Syndrome. It really is just an extra chromosome, after all.

Surendra Koulagi believed that one could not be introduced to Gandhi or forced into his way of life; one needed to find him and embrace his way, wholeheartedly.

It has certainly been a busy year for social media users. There have been several reasons for the virtual world to come together and help each other. Whether it was the Kerala floods or the #MeToo movement – social media platforms have been abuzz with activity.

When Aloma and David Lobo rushed to see the abandoned child, they saw that the baby girl was born with a rare genetic condition--ichthyosis. So rare that it affects one in a million children.

The Ballygunge resident had already broken the glass ceiling and set a precedent for the differently-abled community by earning her MA degree and entering wedlock.

Smriti an electrical engineer, who worked for the Wikimedia Foundation in Europe, returned to India in 2014. She quit her full-time job last year to dedicate her life to the cause of adoption.

In a country where state and central governments have been continuously fighting against female foeticide and where one regularly reads stories about the abandonment of girl children, it is heartening to see that there is a ray of hope too.

This girl, once left with no trace of her of family, now has hundreds of couple lining up outside the Child welfare committee office in Moradabad for adoption - thanks to local and national media who picked her story.

This follows the age-old tradition of the relationship between man and nature, and any tree protected by this relationship cannot be felled or damaged, as per government rules.