Children

Over 2 million children under the age of 5 die and around 1 million face disability for life every year in India. Read how Indian Academy of Pediatrics, along with Vodafone, has launched the world's largest vaccination reminder service to tackle this problem, aiming to prevent 500,000 child deaths and disabilities by 2018 through SMS alerts.

These remarkable people are giving a new meaning to sports. From providing livelihood to bridging the education gap, sports is emerging as the key to a holistic social development. Learn how organizations like NAZ Foundation, The Football Link, Magic Bus and many more are using sports as a tool to bring a change in the lives of the marginalized.

An engaging and interesting compilation of eight short stories that will teach young readers about wildlife and creatures that share the earth with us. Written by Arefa Tehsin and Dr Raza Tehsin, the book deals with emotions like love, jealousy, anger, pain through various animal and human characters. Simple language, interesting stories and fascinating facts keep the reader hooked throughout. Suggested for children above the age of six, this book is a must have in your reading list.

Hearing impaired persons generally have a problem learning new languages. But Sunny chose French as his second language in school and speaks it with panache. He plays the tabla and is also learning to play the saxophone. This was made possible with regular efforts from AURED. Know more about the programme and how it is helping hearing impaired children to communicate without sign language like kids with normal hearing.

When most students of her age are busy talking on the phone, she has come up with an idea to improve the device. Nidhi Gupta invented a dead landline phone indicator that notifies you the moment your phone goes "dead". This 16-year old loves physics and plans to make many such innovations in the future. Read more about her.

Pooja Taparia had a passion for helping people. She started with helping collect funds for small initiatives in her neighbourhood, volunteering time for various causes, and mobilizing people to help the under-privileged. Then one incident gave a new direction to Pooja's life. Since then, she has been working non-stop in the area of child sexual abuse with her team at Arpan. Read further to know more about her work and how you can help.

Bhavana Nissima visited a home for children of HIV+ve parents in Chennai. She came away touched, informed, pensive, and in some inexplicable way, happy. More importantly, she learnt a few of life's lessons she could only have learnt in that place. Here she tells us what these were.

While most kids his age are hankering after that one extra hour of play, Tenith Adithyaa is up all night in his lab experimenting and innovating! His hard work and passion have helped him win over 15 awards for various inventions! Let's meet the young genius and find out what makes him tick.

Education is the most important pillar in a country's growth. When 85 percent of the government schools in India are located in rural areas and do not provide good quality education, there is a need to come up with an alternative solution to this problem. The team at eVidyaloka is bridging the gap and trying to solve the issue by their digital classrooms. Read more to know how.

One probably does not associate schools in India as breeding grounds for innovation! But we found proof for it, in these 26 impressive and innovative ideas by students of various schools across India. They show how young minds are bringing about a revolution in the conventional education system - by picking machines over books and ideas over words. Prepare to be amazed!