Namaskar, New Light Teachers
These children have so much life in them. Their energy is endless, their resilience is humbling. These children do have shelter at creche...
Empowerment
You don’t realize just how vital every part of your body is and how interconnected your system is until one part simply won’t listen to...
Soma Home
In 2005, Soma home became the first residential facility New Light established for girls at risk. Soma Home is located in a fully...
Fairy Tales, Mangos and Bartering
The other volunteers and I had hoped to do finger painting and hand painting with the children at New Light today. But we couldn’t find...
MISSING
Excerpt from Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn “Amartya Sen, the ebullient Nobel Prize–winning economist, has developed...
Hands on Museum
All of the volunteers, Zach, Emmy, Sam and I were able to take 20 children from New Light to visit the Birla Industrial and Technological...
Starfish
Early in the morning I was able to visit Starfish, one of New Light's newest projects. Or Fish Star as my Italian volunteer friend called...
Sonar Tori, Dalit Center and Gorgeous Jazz
I had the opportunity to visit the Sonar Tori home today. It was founded in November 2009 as an extension of New Light Soma Memorial...
A Precious Human Life
I want to begin everyday with this. I believe it makes a very real difference how you begin your day and the intentions you wake up with....
First Impressions
I discovered immediately, leaving the airport, there are no lanes in Kolkata. People will swerve, narrowly missing the taxi next to them,...