Children

Moved by the plight of a mother on the verge of abandoning her disabled child, special educator Anil Joseph from Agra decided to shelter the baby, which became instrumental for him to start an NGO and a shelter for children.

Here are 10 books for children, recommended by authors like Ruskin Bond, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Anu Kumar and more.

Otrivin through its initiative ‘Pollution Capture Pencils’, is harnessing air pollution from schools to make pencils, and provide cleaner air to students

Meet Alice Thomas, a social worker from Puducherry who has spent 32 years funding the education of over 150 children from tribal and marginalised communities and helping them find jobs as paramedical staff, teachers, engineers, and more through her NGO Udhavi Karangal.

Meet Prafulla Shashikant, a man from Beed, Maharashtra, who has worked tirelessly to ensure quality education to lakhs of children through his organisation VOPA.

Niranjan P, a class 6 student of Chavara Darsan CMI Public School, Kerala, cultivates almost all varieties of veggies along with some fruits and flowers in his terrace garden.

Pradyot Voleti's Dribble Academy began with just four children in Gejha village, Noida. Today, his basketball programme is changing the lives of children from low-income households across eight villages.

In a government school in Karnataka, a student-run bank is teaching children the value of saving, investing, depositing, and withdrawing money. Here’s a look at the School Bank of Mullur, started by teacher C S Sathish.

‘Redrawing India’ is a part of Cartoon Network's ‘Redraw Your World’ campaign that aims to empower children to go beyond and strive for change – big or small.

Veena Lal set up Karm Marg in 1997 to provide shelter for children in need without waiting for any donations.