Education
A new Satyagraha has embarked in Bhitiharwa, Bihar to empower rural girls
Once the milestone of Gandhiji’s first Satyagraha, this school in Bhitiharwa, West Champaran is creating a positive change in the lives of 350 rural girls. Bhitiharwa, a lesser known village in West Champaran district of the rural belt of Bihar, has an important place in the annals of our history. The village saw the advent …
A duo from Mumbai and 200 government school students are changing the way we learn science
Mumbai based organisation Universe Simplified is empowering children to create inventions that can solve pertinent problems in their community When Henna Khan was a child, she was obsessed with the seamless and unending fringes of the vast sky. She would spend all of her time wanting to know more about the stars, and galaxies and …
School students from villages in Rajasthan are making communities sustainable using DIY solutions
An ordinary looking school, relatively small in size like most in the rural belt of Rajasthan, was experiencing a surreally extraordinary vibe. A group of kids, clustered around the corner, were tinkering with regular household materials in an attempt to build a solar powered Lamp. These lamps would come as a gleeful respite to the …
How 500 young volunteers across India are educating 10,000 deprived children
How Gramiksha is changing the lives of deprived children and the volunteers working for them by way of education
A community driven initiative to educate underserved students in Belgaum District
Belgaum district in Karnataka is a panoply of villages. But, sadly, many students from these villages are struggling to survive the cut-throat competition of the current market of employability due to lack of proper education and opportunities. The villages are surrounded by farmlands of sugarcane and corns and the common occupation for the majority population …
How a successful medical surgeon from Pune gave up his practice to live a medicine-free life by converting a barren land into a thick forest
We are all aware that in today’s time, almost all the life-giving sources are majorly polluted for the sake of urbanization and development which in turn are causing several health related issues and acute diseases. From senile to toddlers, no one is spared by the devastating health impact extended by a reckless trend of consumerism …
The story Pooja Mishra, an IIM C alumnus, who left the corporate jumble to establish a school for hundreds of underprivileged kids in her village of Purasi, Raebarelli
Pooja Mishra, the eldest amongst her 3 sisters, always had her roots deeply embedded in the village of Purasi near Raebareli. But, her parents chose to educate her in Lucknow as there was no place for quality education in Purasi. She completed her schooling from a school affiliated to an International Board, pursued Engineering as …
Bukkaraya Samudram: A school in Andhra Pradesh educating differently abled children through sports and cultural engagement and encouragement
Everyone is differently unique and uniquely different. Bukkaraya Samudram School (BKS) in Andhra Pradesh embodies this notion and employs sports and cultural activities to empower children with hearing and speech impairment. BKS was pitched in 2008 when the Rural Development Trust (RDT) commissioned the school to be a singular institution in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh which …
How Promila Bahudar’s work in spreading computer literacy has empowered hundreds of rural women across Uttar Pradesh
In 1991, India, it wasn’t usual for a 14-year old teenager to teach herself on how to use a computer. But Promila Bahadur accomplished this and what she did with this knowledge has profoundly changed the lives of many young women in a poor village just 15 kilometres from her hometown of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. …
Popular musician and rapper Chance would be donating $1 million to Chicago Public Schools
Popular musician and rapper Chance, whose real name is Chancelor Johnathan Bennett, revealed in the month of March that he would be donating a total of $1 million to numerous Chicago Public Schools. The rapper made the announcement during a news conference at Westcott Elementary School, which sits a few blocks away from where he …
