Bivha Foundation or, Bivha Child Education Fund is full of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Some are experts in climbing bridges and buildings, some are experts in reading and deciphering 500-page reports, some are experts in following a single drop of mercury all the way back to the factory pipe it came from, some have stopped the genetic contamination of your food supply for years and years, and some others have turned around a 27,000-tonne aircraft carrier laden with a deadly cargo of asbestos, and sent it back to France.

You might think one needs to be Superman to pull all this off, and you'd be wrong. Because all the progress we've made in investigating, exposing and confronting environmental crime, all the victories we've snatched from the jaws of defeat, all the unflinching stands we've taken in the face of overwhelming resistance, all of this has been made possible by ordinary human beings. Not just those that work in Bivha Foundation/BICEF , but also the 45,000 ordinary people that support our work by giving us five Rupees a day, sometimes ten. And the lacs of other ordinary people that support us in other ways... writing emails to corporations, faxing obscure government officials, blogging about us, sending text messages to get our activists out of jail.

None of these people are Superman. All of them are human. And all of them are brought together by a fierce love for this planet, and an immense concern for the state of the environment. To join this growing community of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, simply use the sign-up form below. It could be your first step towards saving the world.

An adult literacy project sponsored by Bivha International ChildFund India and Janpriya Sewa Sansthan, a local NGO, was featured recently on the front page of Times of India, the most widely read English language newspaper in India. It is one of the world’s largest newspapers with a circulation of more than 3 million.

The literacy program began in  Jan 2010 and targeted an area of India known for high illiteracy rates. More than 700 women aged 15-35 were selected for the program. Out of that group 60 percent have achieved basic skills of reading and writing; nearly 98 percent can read and sign their names.