Design & People identify how design can intervene to make a contribution to the ongoing efforts to improve the lives of people disadvantaged by war, disability, and political and environmental conditions. We unite and encourage graphic, industrial and architectural designers to use their experience and skills towards social and humanitarian projects. Mission: Design For People In Need.
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Creativity As A Social Contribution
Design & People Beneficiaries
Design & People work voluntarily for non-profit organisations and movements in India. Some of our beneficiaries are: Act!onAid, Buddha Smiles Education Movement, Food Safety Solutions, For Gujarat, Friends of Tibet, Greenpeace, Janhit ation, Keli India, Nachiar Vidyalayam, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Pratyasha: Cancer Children's Welfare Society, Periyar Riverkeeper, Shishu Sarothi: Centre for Rehabilitation and Training for Multiple Disability, Society First and the World Tibet Day ation.
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Act!onAid International India / Web:
www.actionaidindia.org
An international development agency formed in 1972 whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. The organisation helps over 13 million of the poorest and most disadvantaged people in 42 countries worldwide.
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Buddha Smiles Education Movement / Web:
www.buddhasmiles.in
An education movement inspired by the Gandhian philosophy of 'Sarvodaya', which recognises that the spiritual, moral, cultural, social, economic and political dimensions are all necessary components of holistic development.
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Food Safety Solutions / Web:
www.foodsafetysolutions.org
A non-profit organisation dedicated to food safety and quality, protection of the environment by developing standards, providing training, education and superior third-party conformity assessment service
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Friends of Tibet / Web:
www.friendsoftibet.org
A Tibet support group formed to keep the issue of Tibet alive through direct action, Friends of Tibet’s activities are aimed at ending China's occupation of Tibet and the suffering of the Tibetan people. Friends of Tibet supports the continued struggle of the Tibetan people for independence
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Janhit Foundation / Web:
www.janhitfoundation.org
A voluntary organisation working towards environmental protection, water conservation and organic farming since 1998. Janhit Foundation believes feels that environment problems can only be addressed adequately if local people are involved in decision making at all levels and have control over resources.
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Greenpeace India / Web:
www.greenpeaceindia.org
An independent, campaigning organisation that uses non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems. Greenpeace has a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific.
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Keli India / Web:
www.keliindia.org
Keli, a Bombay-based non-profit, voluntary organisation dedicated to the preservation, development and propagation of the traditional classical art forms.
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Nachiar Vidyalayam / Web:
www.nachiarvidyalayam.org
A school run by a third generation cotton-trading family in Pollachi, Tamil Nadu. Having lived in the village for more than five decades, the family decides to give back to their beloved village and the society through Nachiar Vidyalayam.
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Narmada Iykyadhardya Samithi / Web:
www.narmada.org
A group formed to support Narmada Bachao Andolan, the movement which opposes the construction of large dams on the River Narmada without proper rehabilitation.
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Periyar Riverkeeper / Web:
www.periyarriverkeeper.org
Periyar Riverkeeper aims to permanently stop the ongoing toxic pollution of the River Periyar in Kerala. It acts as a pressure group to urge the industry to come clean using advanced Clean Production Technologies and works with communities to establish new campaigns.
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Pratyasha: Cancer Children's Welfare Society / Web:
www.pratyashaforchildren.org
Formed in 2003 under the aegis of Paediatric Oncology Division of the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), Trivandrum, Pratyasha supports the affected families during illness and its treatment regime and also afterwards.
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Shishu Sarothi: Centre for Rehabilitation and Training for Multiple Disability
A non-profit organisation providing services for multiple disabled children in the North East of India. Shishu Sarothi, which began as a one-room house, is now the Spastic Society of Assam.
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Society First / Web:
www.societyfirst.org
An Alleppy-based organisation formed by a group of committed aid workers forming a strong volunteer core-group. For Society First, social work is a profession where everyone works towards making a positive difference.
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Swaraj Peeth / Web:
www.hindswaraj.co.cc
A Gandhian center for non-violence and peace, works for Mahatma Gandhi's vision of Swaraj – Home-Rule or Self Rule based on culture of non-violence or cultural democracy - through building a community based non-violent social force called Gandhi Shanti Sena; organizing public dialogues, training in nonviolence and education programmes for creating swaraj awareness in various areas of life.
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World Tibet Day Foundation / Web:
www.worldtibetday.org
An annual worldwide event designed to help the Tibetan people regain essential freedoms. The World Tibet Day Foundation is founded and headed by Richard Rosenkranz, a Pulitzer Prize nominee in history.
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"If anything deserves a reward, it is social contribution. Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results."
Richard Stallman
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