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8 Nature & Adventure Summer Camps To Unlock Your Child’s Creativity & Potential
As vacations across schools begin, parents are constantly on the lookout for ways to engage their children. Unlike in the last two years, there has been a relaxation in pandemic-induced restrictions,...
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‘It Takes a Village to Keep Girls in School’: How 2 NGOs Enrolled Lakhs of...
This article has been published in partnership with Childrens’ Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) as part of #PromptHerNow, a campaign through which The Better India, Population Foundation of India and...
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Robotic to Rock Climbing: 10 Amazing Summer Camps For Kids in India
After two years of classes, social meet-ups and even birthday parties being conducted online, children finally seem to have a chance to return to offline activities. If you are looking for fun summer...
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10 Children’s TV Shows to Watch Online That Are As Educational As They Are Fun
Does your child like being glued to the television, no matter how hard you try to engage them in outdoor activities? There’s still a way you can encourage them to learn and grow, even within the...
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Students With Disabilities Show How a Teacher’s 30-Year Crusade Changed Their...
Pooja Zaveri’s future looked bleak when she was born with hearing impairments in an underprivileged section of society. But the now 18-year-old Pooja is gearing up to appear for the SSC exam. A Karate...
View ArticleOne Women is Using Discarded Bottles & Scrap to Help Shelter 1500 Kids;...
Not every kid grows up in a safe, secure and sound family environment. Some never attend school, live on the streets or even get physically abused. Coming to these children’s aid, a woman from...
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Cartoon Network Brings Stories Of 6 Kids Who Are ‘Redrawing India’ With...
This article has been sponsored by Cartoon Network. Prasiddhi Singh from Tamil Nadu is an example that no one is too young to dream. A natural disaster inspired her at the age of six. “When Vardah...
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S For Saving, I For Investing: School Kids Run Their Own Bank to Learn About...
While diving deep into the theory and study of various subjects, our schools don’t often focus on imparting the type of practical education that would be useful in the day-to-day adult world. But Mr C...
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Coach’s Love for Basketball Keeps 3000 ‘At-Risk’ Kids on the Path to Winning
This article is part of #MakingSportWork, a series launched by The Better India and Sports and Society Accelerator. The series celebrates India’s independence with stories of heroes who have spent...
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11-YO Kochi Boy’s Terrace Farm & Recipe for Bio-Manure Mix Wins Agri Dept Award
Ever since he could walk, P Niranjan showed interest in farming while being taken around the farmlands of his maternal and paternal family in Adimali and Kochi, respectively. Agriculture is not an...
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One Man Brings Free, High-Quality Education to Lakhs in Maharashtra’s...
Prafulla Shashikant (33) has worked tirelessly to ensure that children from the country’s most backward and marginalised factions are able to complete their education. In part, it was his own...
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A Taxi Driver’s Brilliant Initiative Helped 200 Brides Get Wedding Outfits...
Many women getting married dream of the perfect outfit for their special day. But Nasar Thootha, a taxi driver, often noticed that limited funds inhibited a large section from finding their dream...
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‘Mother’ to 150 Kids in Need, Woman Spends 32 Yrs Helping Them Become...
In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, a young Alice is bored of sitting by the river with her sister. She spots a rabbit that looks rather different and decides to follow him on a whim. And so she...
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With Pencils Made of Pollution, Delhi Kids Wrote 1000 Letters Asking Adults...
This article has been published in partnership with Otrivin. Air pollution is one of the biggest environmental threats in the world, especially for children. As per a Ministry of Health and Family...
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Ruskin Bond to Anu Kumar: Indian Authors Recommend 10 Books for Every Child...
This article contains affiliate links. If you purchase something using one of these links, The Better India will get a small commission. The best way to expand a child’s imagination and improve their...
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‘Many Families Abandon Them’: Agra Man Builds Home for 75 Kids with Disabilities
Anil Joseph knew from a very young age that he would do something to give back to society. So, when he completed his diploma in special education in 2002, he started looking for the right opportunity....
View Article‘Who Would Marry a Bald Indian Bride?’ Living With Alopecia, I Decided to...
Hair is a significant part of beauty standards, and losing it can be traumatic for anyone. Neehar Sachdeva, a resident of the US, was diagnosed with alopecia — a condition of losing hair from...
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A Self-Refereed, Mix-Gendered Sport Helps Hundreds of Kids Study, Escape a...
This article is part of #MakingSportWork, a series launched by The Better India and Sports and Society Accelerator. The series celebrates India’s independence with stories of heroes who have spent...
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How Do We Shape Businesses for a Better Tomorrow? Here’s What Children Have...
This article has been sponsored by Mahindra Rise. The children of today are the creators, investors, and consumers of tomorrow. It becomes imperative for businesses to hear their voices. They want to...
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A Couple’s Endeavour Has Given Free Supportive Cancer Care to 6000...
Five-year-old kidney cancer survivor Rajib Malakar and his family came to Chennai for treatment back in 2022. From Dharmanagar, a small town in Tripura, Rajib’s father works in a private firm, while...
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‘No Child Should Sleep on Empty Stomach’: One Man Has Served Free Food to 1...
Always keen to do social work, Nilay Agarwal kept postponing his plans. But in September 2018, when he lost a close friend in an unfortunate accident, he realised the unpredictability of life. So, he...
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Losing His Niece Triggered Entrepreneur To Make Smartwatch for Kids’ Safety;...
‘Is my kid okay? Did they reach school safely?’ Parents feel an overwhelming sense of responsibility for the safety and well-being of their children, right from the moment they are born. To make...
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10 Things About Jaadui Pitara: India’s Play-Based Learning Material For 3 to...
India is home to over 444 million children in the age bracket of 0–18 years. This is one of the world’s largest child and adolescent populations. A UNICEF report shows that learning outcomes remain...
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‘Threats & Flowers, I Get Them All’: Assam Woman Rescues Thousands of Girls...
“A man was running through the 24 Parganas in Kolkata screaming helplessly. Something about losing his daughter. She had simply vanished. I wondered how someone my age could suddenly disappear. I...
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Book Inspired by a Mom’s Love is Helping Kids Understand Their Peers with...
Anjor, a sleepy fishing village, is the site of the popular Mahalasa festival. The festival is happening on the last leg of 10-year-old Sara’s trip to Anjor, where she has gone to visit her cousins...
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IPS Officer Educates 1000s in MP’s Villages, Helps Them Escape...
Kanchan (name changed) is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in law from Bhopal University. Back home, her mother is still engaged in sex work. “She has always been involved in the work, but she...
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Lawyer Helps Child Sexual Abuse Victims Win Compensation Up to Rs 1 Crore
Trigger warning: This story contains mentions of suicide and sexual violence As a child, Prita Jha had a strong sense of fairness. She recalls how she and her brother would argue into the night about...
View ArticleThis Single Mother Swept Streets By Day, Studied By Night To Become Deputy...
Defying all odds to earn her place, Asha Kandara, a sanitary worker in Jodhpur Municipal Corporation (North), became a deputy collector at Jodhpur Nagar Nigam. A single mother to two children, she was...
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After Her PhD at Harvard, How This Mum Started a Multi-Crore Sustainable Toy...
It’s a usual Tuesday morning and Aarthi Chandrasekaran, a mother to twins is busy getting her day started. Amidst the countless chores that she has to see to in the wee hours of the morning, Aarthi...
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Exclusive: What Life Looks Like for a 15-YO Model Who Rose from a Mumbai Slum
On every post that 15-year-old Maleesha Kharwa uploads on Instagram, one hashtag remains — #princessfromtheslum. They say the universe works in mysterious ways, and that couldn’t be more true in the...
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Damage of Excessive Screen Time on Children: 6 Ways to Fix It
This article has been sponsored by LG Electronics. With rising reliance on online education amid the COVID-19 pandemic, children have now been forced to spend more time staring at digital screens like...
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Her Brother’s Diagnosis Inspired 15-YO’s Mission to Help 15000 Kids with Type...
Life was pretty normal for Divaa, her brother Surya, and their parents. Both the children were attending school from home due to COVID restrictions. However, everything changed in 2020 when Surya, who...
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Play, Learn, Grow, Repeat: A Peak Inside India’s Innovative, DIY, Sustainable...
This article was published in collaboration with EkStep Foundation. When Pooja Rai was a student of architecture at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, she would volunteer at Disha...
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Playgrounds for India: Why We Need to Reclaim & Build Spaces for Our Kids
This article was published in collaboration with EkStep Foundation. When Anthill Creations, a Bengaluru-based non-profit organisation building low cost and sustainable playgrounds around the country,...
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Planning a Vacation With Your Baby? 2 Friends Are Taking Moms & Kids to Trips...
Motherhood is a fulfilling yet challenging journey that often brings doubts to our minds. ‘Will we be able to continue doing the things we love as we did before?’ is a common one. As a new mother, I...
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What Happens to Migrant Workers’ Kids? 6 Friends Help 4000 Join Mainstream...
Every year, tens of thousands of impoverished families leave the comforts of their homes and migrate to urban areas in search of livelihood opportunities. While they find new jobs and homes, what...
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Using Play to Teach Lakhs, Couple Helps Kids from Low-Cost Schools Pursue...
Imagine you are tasked with delivering a speech or a business plan in front of an audience, but you fail to communicate your idea, speaking mostly with fillers in your sentences. Back in school, you...
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In Varanasi, An IAS Officer’s Mission Reunites 700 Lost Children with Their...
That particular morning in 2019 should have been like any other for 12-year-old Shoaib Ahmed as he set out for work at a nearby barber shop in his village UP’s Shamli district. But it turned into a...
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Engineer Uses Animated NCERT Syllabus To Turn Classrooms in 1000 Govt Schools...
Madhya Pradesh’s Siya Umesh Jariya does not yawn in class anymore. For the Class 8 student at a government school in Indore, learning is now fun, because she studies regular subjects through animated...
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Lost, Kidnapped, Dumped: This Doctor Became a Mother to Kolkata’s Abandoned...
With continued bomb blasts and strikes leading to loss of life, property and basic resources, the ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel has resulted in the killings and abduction of hundreds...
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Bulbs That Act As Inverters: Class 12 Student Lights Up Rural India With His...
For the residents of Bichpuri in Uttar Pradesh, a financial literacy programme by a teenager turned into a harbinger of hope a few months later. After his Class 10 board exams, Uday Bhatia visited...
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7 Teen Changemakers Solving Some of India’s Biggest Problems
Children are the future and many of our efforts are directed towards leaving them a better planet. But many children are designing their own future, and solving problems that leave even the adults...
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At Just 10, This Bengaluru Whiz Kid Became ‘Wildlife Photographer of the Year’
In 1984, London’s Natural History Museum was flooded with hundreds of jiffy bags. Each contained a picture — a submission for the ‘Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ competition launched in 1964....
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5 Inspiring IAS Officers Who Defied Odds to Achieve Their UPSC Dreams
We have all heard stories of how people spend hours and hours studying to crack one of the most difficult exams in India – the UPSC CSE. However, there are some aspirants who came out victorious no...
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Where to Donate Toys for Kids? 5 Places to Bookmark
“When I was a kid, my mom used to donate clothes on my birthday. I used to wonder why we do this just once a year,” Anushka, the founder of ‘Share at Door Step’ recalls thinking when she was younger....
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10 Ways to Make Your New Year Celebrations Meaningful: Donate Now
One of my fondest memories from New Year’s Day in my childhood was making halwa-puri to distribute to those waiting outside our neighbourhood temples. Though many people engaged in similar acts of...
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IAS Officer’s ‘Second Chance’ Is Helping Bastar’s Tribal Students Clear NEET...
When you’re a kid and asked about your future aspirations, the answers often range from wanting to be a teacher, or an astronaut, or a lawyer. However, for Rahul, hailing from the Naxal-affected...
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Grandma’s Struggles Makes Teenager Craft a Device To Aid Dementia Patients
Feature Image Courtesy Hemesh Chadalavada Sometime in 2018, Hemesh Chadalavada was at his grandmother’s house watching TV at 2 am. He suddenly heard some movement in the kitchen and saw his...
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A Child Labourer Rescued By Kailash Satyarthi, He’s Now a Lawyer Fighting For...
Six-year-old Amar Lal from Rajasthan was never concerned with what year, month, week or day it was. His routine was the same. Every morning the family — hailing from the Banjara nomadic tribe in...
View Article‘I Am Honouring My Dad’s Memory With Free Boarding School In India’s Highest...
Portia Putatunda, a successful journalist in Mumbai, found her life taking an unexpected turn when tragedy struck. The loss of her only parent, her father, left her in deep grief. “I lost myself when...
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