Moved by the plight of people suffering from water shortage, a class XI student from Mumbai collaborated with Eureka Forbes to set up water ATMs in...
Barun Kumar Pradhan, 56, runs Netrahin Bal Vidya Mandir (NBVM) a free residential school for the visually challenged in Amlidih village. Children mostly from poor families...
‘Project Mala’ in the Guria village of Uttar Pradesh is working overtime to keep children in school free of caste and other discriminations. It is batting...
Vaishali Yadav sent a second letter to PM Modi thanking him for his support and was pleasantly surprised to receive a personally signed letter from the...
With the unprecedented pace of the explosion of internet, parents and children are living in virtually 2 different online spheres. Given that the online world is...
Here is the amazing first person account of a dalit woman who fought all odds to become not only the sarpanch of her village but also...
28-year-old social entrepreneur Afsana Parveen talks about the struggle she went through to set-up ‘Pehchaan – the Street School’
Morocco NGO Education For All (EFA) is creating a massive difference in the lives of indigenous Berbers who are sending their girls to school. They have...
Basant (18) has been carrying his elder brother, polio stricken Krishan on his shoulders to attend school since childhood. The brothers have cleared the IITJEE with...
Kaarwaa.N a group of college students founded by Gaurav Patil is coaching slum kids to prepare for the entrance exam of JNV schools. The group keeps...
Educated in six countries, 16-year-old Shreya is a multifaceted achiever.
12-year-old Tanmay Bakshi is the face of the new generation of coders who cannot wait to debut in the tech world. He has numerous apps under...
A first person account by chess prodigy, Devanshi Rathi about her experience of spearheading Project Checkmate and how it is a life altering experience for her...
RTI and RTE have become two unlikely weapons in the hands of feisty women in the slums of the national capital. They are using these legislations...
Regina Wyllies is a 9 year old photographer who works alongside her father Kevin Wyllies and captures mesmerizing photographs at weddings that are a result of...
After 37 years of working in the KG section of the IHS Dubai, May Barretto, originally from Mumbai will retire this month. She has seen the...
Not all toppers or good scorers at SSC have a golden story. Here is looking at some tales of extraordinary courage who not only overcame adversary...
Swetcha Poladi, a SBI Youth for India Fellow currently posted in Jawhar, Maharashtra is enlisting village elders to help transfer traditional knowledge about the culture, art,...
Neelu Kumari cycled 24 km everyday in order to attend school. She was forced to do so as her village had no electricity and no school....
When 22-year-old Jharna Joshi from Ahmedabad discovered child labour in a ceramic factory in Morbi, she alerted the CM’s office, ultimately leading to the rescue of...
Ramalakhsmi, the school topper in class XII in Chennai belongs to a humble background. Daughter of a coolie, she not only studies but also helps her...
No hurdle is too big in the way of getting education for Mustafa who was born without hands. He learnt to write with his toes and...
Shivani Prajapat, daughter of a rickshaw-puller from Alwar has become a hero not only in her colony where her family lives in a rented room but...
Mohsin Farukhi a potential child labourer who almost ended up being a part of the statistics managed to turn around his life and pass out school....
Moved by the plight of slum children who have to skip school in order to support their family by working, 3 Gandhi Fellows, Harsha Ramchandani, Aditi...