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...
View ArticleHer 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...
View ArticlePlay, 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...
View ArticlePlaygrounds 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,...
View ArticlePlanning 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleUsing 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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleEngineer 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...
View ArticleLost, 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...
View ArticleBulbs 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...
View Article7 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...
View ArticleAt 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....
View Article5 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...
View ArticleWhere 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....
View Article10 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...
View ArticleIAS 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...
View ArticleGrandma’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...
View ArticleA 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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