Youth
After being Rescued from Child Slavery, Neeraj Murmu starts a Free School for other Rescued Children. Wins ‘Diana Award’.
Diana Award winner, Neeraj Murmu was once a child laborer in the mica mines of Jharkhand’s Duliyakaram. Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation aided his rescue in 2011 and that is when he got to attend school for the first time in his life. He went ahead to rescue many other children like him. Critical financial conditions of …
Goldman Sachs alum is helping Transgenders cross the ‘PeriFerry’ of bigotry into viable opportunities
Identities are the bedrock of our existence. Our legal and social existence depends on our identity, with religion, caste, creed, language, and sex being used to define it. But when the legal statutes and society refuse to recognize one of those factors, our identity collapses. What follows, is marginalization, discrimination, and suffering. This is exactly …
How these two 21-year olds are using Jute waste to create energy and livelihood for thousands
According to the medical journal The Lancet – as featured in an article in Bloomberg – Coal provides roughly 70 percent of India’s electrical energy needs, even as 1.24 million citizens die annually as a result of the country’s choking smog. According to Greenpeace and Air Visual, 7 of the world’s top 10 cities with …
How 2 young professionals are breaking the silence around menstruation for 600,000 people in rural Jharkhand
According to a 2014 report by the NGO Dasra titled Spot On!, it was found that nearly 23 million girls drop out of school annually due to lack of proper menstrual hygiene management facilities, which include the availability of sanitary napkins and logical awareness of menstruation. Concurrently, the report also states that 70 percent of …
How the death of a friend roused Vivek to create an auto rescue system, saving road accident victims
Just like any other restless evening, Vivek Justus was planning to spend this one in the company of friends, catching up, sharing stories, and having fun. But, an unexpected call from one of his closest friends – Dinesh – was not the catch up he was expecting. “Dinesh gave me a call informing that he …
St. Xavier’s College alumnae is combating malnutrition in the tribal villages of Madhya Pradesh using Soya Bean
Nutrition is a fundamental human need. But, this fundamental need often goes unsolicited, sadly leaving the fate of millions hanging in the perilous balance of life and death. According to a 2015 report by The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, India accounts for 23.8% of the global burden of malnourishment and has …
An Engineer who is building science laboratories in remote villages of India using locally available resources
For the past few years, engineers have been a subject of extreme mockery for the netizens. Social media is filled with memes (a millennial lingo) on how jobless engineering students are. We often have this misconception that engineering student in India either end up in a 9 to 5 job working on excel sheets or …
A contraption that lets the wheelchair bound to stand
Ramalingam.PL was a significantly well performing student during his Engineering, but what made him stand out was not his brilliance at academia but the sheer intent to come up with solutions that can impact many. It is this attribute of his that deems him a winner. During his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, he worked on …