Amazing! This 7-Year-Old Boy From Gujarat Rescued His Friend From a Leopard...
What would you do if you saw a leopard attacking your friend? While flight would be the natural reaction of most people, one 7-year-old boy became a local hero after rescuing his friend from a vicious...
View ArticleHow a Trust Pulled 1,800 Slum Kids off Dehradun’s Streets and Gave Them...
Hope is an alien concept if you’re born in Dehradun’s Bindal slum, lining the side banks of the unpredictable Bindal river. Your parents are mostly daily wage labourers working at construction sites....
View ArticleWhy Shouldn’t the Deaf Learn Martial Arts? This Instructor Has Proved They Can!
Not all Karate instructors would know how to teach profoundly deaf children. It’s not only a daunting but also a very demanding task. However, there is one instructor who has accepted that challenge....
View ArticleHow 4 Girls Are Working to Make the World Wonderful for 50 Underprivileged...
To say you desire a world where everybody lives in harmony, unity and cooperation may seem like a utopian idea. But 19-year-old Meghana Dabbara is already laying the foundation for this utopian world...
View ArticleTeacher Saves Teenager From the Clutches of Blue Whale Challenge in Rajasthan
The number of victims falling prey to the infamous ‘Blue Whale Challenge’ has been on a significant rise in India, with five already dead and many more perilously dangling between life and death. A...
View ArticleSecretly Married off at 12, Here’s How Facebook Help End This 19-Year-Old’s...
Child marriage continues to be one of the most pressing issues in our country. The archaic tradition, which is still practised in different communities across states like Karnataka, Rajasthan, Uttar...
View ArticleFailing Kids Doesn’t Ensure Competition. Why We Need the No Detention Policy
Over the last couple of years, the government’s focus has been towards utilising the vast workforce India is copiously producing. This has been reflected in its policies. For example, changes in the...
View Article10 Inspiring Young Indians Nominated for the International Children’s Peace...
The International Children’s Peace Prize 2017 will be awarded on December 4, 2017. This is a prize awarded annually to a child who fights courageously for children’s rights. Established in the year...
View ArticleThese Government Schoolgirls in Puducherry Are Generating Electricity From...
Knowledge is not power, implementation is. And two schoolgirls from the Government Primary School in Puducherry’s Kalitheerthalkuppam village, are doing just that. While it is common for most of us to...
View ArticleDelhi High Court Gives 16-Year-Old Foot Artist New Lease of Life With a...
16-year-old Ritik may have had a difficult childhood coping with congenital limb deficiency, but the Class X student’s world is never devoid of colours. The young foot artist, who first started...
View ArticleHow India’s First Human Milk Bank Is Helping High-Risk Babies Survive
The benefits of breast milk extend well beyond just basic nutrition. Breast milk protects babies from allergies, infections, and diseases, other than providing them with necessary nutrients in proper...
View ArticleMeet Shailendra Singh, 2017’s Nominee for the International Children’s Peace...
The International Children’s Peace Prize is an annual award presented to children who have made a significant contribution to advocating children’s rights and improving the situation of vulnerable...
View ArticleDear Parents, Children Can Get Depressed Too! A Doc Shares All You Need to Know
Parents should listen to what the kids don’t say. At the time of my schooling, school health check-ups were made compulsory. These reports gave details about the child’s eyesight, oral hygiene, fitness...
View ArticleOnce a Child Labourer, This Bengaluru Girl Will Now Speak About Child Rights...
Amongst the most pressing issues in the country, child labour continues to exist in every nook and corner of India. According to International Labour Organisation, some 10.3 million children are prey...
View ArticleHow a Crime Ridden Mumbai Slum Is Keeping Its Girl Students in School
Malwani is a slum in North Bombay, known for alcoholism, drug abuse, domestic violence, and girl child abuse. Kusum, a class 8 student of Holy Mother English School, studies in a Teach for India...
View ArticleHow a Kochi-Based NGO Is Helping Parents Open Up To Their Kids About Child Abuse
As of May last year, a survey conducted in 26 states by World Vision India revealed that one in every two children is a victim of child sexual abuse in India. One in every five lives in the fear of...
View ArticleSpeaking Chalk: Bringing Spoken English to the Students Who Really Need It.
It is one thing to understand the English language, but speaking it fluently is an entirely different matter. Effortless English-speaking skills, beyond the scope of academics, are still beyond the...
View ArticleHere Are 3 Unique Stories That Will Change the Way You Think About Adoption
Every year, November is recognised as adoption awareness month. It is especially important for India because India has 11 million abandoned children but fewer than 4,000 adoptions per year. This...
View ArticleThe Yacht Club of Hyderabad: Helping Less-Privileged Children Sail Toward a...
Suheim Sheikh loves sailing. A graduate from IIT Madras, he ran a software products company involved in the creation of real-time Stock Trading and Surveillance systems and worked extensively on Fraud...
View ArticleBrijesh, Who Fought Great Odds to Study at IIT, Is Raising Lakhs to Educate...
Brijesh Saroj is the son of a daily wage worker in Uttar Pradesh and is determined to repay the society which helped him during a difficult period. Despite being academically brilliant — he and his...
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