Children

Empowering children to be changemakers of tomorrow can go a long way to solving many of India’s pressing problems. Richa Shukla writes about how a campaign in parts of Kolkata helped teach kids about hygiene and cleanliness, and inspired them to influence their communities.

Saranya Das Sharma and her friend Aamiya Vishwanathan are two 11th grade students in Delhi, who visit various government schools to distribute free eco-friendly menstrual products to prevent school drop-outs.

These teenagers from Jaipur put themselves in danger in order to get evidence of a suspected paedophile in their locality.

An eloquent open letter from a young girl from Assam has her beseeching the Prime Minister to ensure history from the country's Northeast region gets included in school curriculum.

The musically talented good Samaritans dazzled the audience with covers of hit songs from bands like Coldplay, in a concert aptly called Paws and Play.

Soumya Dabriwal and Nitisha Sethia have taken it upon themselves to provide girls in rural India with two vital things: knowledge about menstruation and environment-friendly, hygienic sanitary napkins.

Her son's rashes led Pallavi Utagi to start Superbottoms, a brand that promises to keep nappy rashes away and is kinder on the environment too.

From making up bedtime stories for his 2-year-old daughter, to authoring a book of bedtime stories - Suresh Ediga writes about his journey.

Being Indian turned out to be so much more than owning a black-and-gold passport.

Children are the custodians of the future, and empowering them with information that helps them become changemakers can go a long way to improving society. A UNICEF initiative is now doing just that in Maharashtra’s rural districts.