Online Writing Lab:This fabulous website helps teach crucial English grammar rules and gives fantastic recommendations for those trying to compose any sort of paper. As anyone working in the NGO sector will have to pen letters, articles, or grant requests, this invaluable link will help you find what you need. (owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/)

Foundation for a Better Life: For those who need to be inspired, this website offers quotes, vignettes, stories, and short films to lift up the human spirit. It is an excellent motivational tool, and thoroughly fun to explore.(www.forbetterlife.org/)

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities : This website offers in depth descriptions of many types of disability. While it is written for an American audience—a fact that impacts the legal side of the information provided—it gives excellent tips to parents and teachers about how to help children with special needs excel. (www.nichcy.org/Pages/Home.aspx)

Zigawhat! : This website is for children with special needs. Offering a forum for discussion and valuable links for children to explore, it is a great resource for parents and kids alike.(old.nichcy.org/kids/index.htm)

Action for Autism is an active and useful site for parents, professionals and people with autism. It is the best known and most up-to-date site for information on autism in India, though it also covers upcoming conferences and seminars on a wide range of topics of interest to people dealing with other disabilities as well. (www.autism-india.org)

Ummeed is a very good site for basic information about a wide range of developmental disabilities, written by professionals with years of experience in their disciplines. (www.ummeed.org)

Heartsprings is a wonderful site, stumbled upon (what else?) by accident, but one to go back to again and again for its lovely design and beautiful photos of children with disabilities and the inspiring stories they create through their lives and the lives of those they touch. (www.heartspring.org)

Akanksha is a vibrant children’s organization, dedicated to the idea that kids need and deserve to have fun, good times and education – all at once. Started with 15 children in one Mumbai slum, it has grown to serve nearly five thousand kids in Mumbai and Pune, all from very poor families. The site is colorful and inspiring, full of stories of real lives and real change. (www.akanksha.org)

hazardscentre.org is a professional support group and resource centre based in Delhi. It provides consultancy services to mass and community organizations working on issues of development and environment. We include it here because of its insistence on the need to learn from the most vulnerable in our society – the poor, the marginalized, the creative people who exist on 80 rupees a day and still remember how to share and how to dance.