Tag: elderly

Innovation from/with/for grassroots street workers:

Innovation from/with/for grassroots street workers: I don’t know how many people in our country can claim that they have never either bought anything or used any service provided by street vendors. And yet, when policy and institutional space for improving their occupational and living conditions has to be expanded, they are often left to fend…

Anjani Mashelkar Inclusive Innovation Award 2013

Anjani Mashelkar Inclusive Innovation AwardAnjani Mashelkar, Dr R.A. Mashelkar´s mother, brought him up facing all the odds that a poor widowed uneducated mother moving to Mumbai with her only child – a six year old boy – would face. And this she did with courage and dignity. Her own circumstances never brought her down –…