Tag: Chingari Trust
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"Right to Live" dharna: parents of babies born malformed due to Carbide's poisons demand the children should receive free medical care
Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Stationery Karmachari Sangh Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Purush Sangharsh Morcha Bhopal Group for Information and Action Bhopal Ki Aaawaaz February 25, 2007 PRESS STATEMENT At a press conference in Bhopal today, parents of 14 children born with congenital abnormalities attributable to exposure to Union Carbide’s poisons demanded free medical care for…
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Chingari Trust to provide medical aid to gas victims' children
STAFF REPORTER, THE HINDU, CHENNAI, SEPTEMBER 24, 2006 The Chingari Trust will back livelihood-generation projects for women victims BHOPAL: The Chingari Trust, a non-government organisation devoted to the cause of Bhopal gas victims, announced on Saturday that it would be setting up a programme for inviting specialist doctors from all over the country to the…
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Rashida and Champa win "Nobel Prize for the Environment"
Rashida Bee and Champa Devi have been announced as the winners of the prestigious Goldman Prize. The prize, given annually “for sustained and important efforts” by six ‘heroes of the environment’ worldwide, entails a “no strings attached” award of $125,000 – the largest and most highly regarded award in the world for grassroots environmentalists. Champa…