Slums

Plastic drums, paint cans, buckets, glass bottles and throw away junk – what do you get when you bring all these together? “Music!” say the rag picking children of Mumbai’s Dharavi slum.

Filmmaker Nawneet Ranjan is using PCs and online tutorials to create a new generation of coders in India’s largest slum, Dharavi.

Venkat and Vijaya Iyer, a retired couple living in Bangalore, have devoted their lives to the betterment of slum dwellers in their neighbourhood.

An interesting technology is bridging the education gap in slums and in rural India. Through computer tablets and CLassCloud technology, children get access to quality education even in locations where electricity and network connectivity are an issue.

This team of architects is making sure the urban poor get better homes with sanitation. Not only do they provide them with better dwellings within the city, they also create more income generation opportunities for the women living in the slums. Here is how they are rehabilitating slum dwellers and redesigning their living spaces.

It was for the seventh time, that the Slum Soccer organization from India was representing the country at the Homeless World Cup held in Amsterdam this year. While the men's team won the Sports Gen Cup, the women's team got the 6th place among 16 participating nations. Meet the players who have made the country very proud.

Most underprivileged children are unable to find solace in their childhood. The difficulties they face, financially and emotionally, are so persistent that they barely have time or mental space to enjoy basic recreational moments, such as reading or playing with toys. One NGO is fighting to give them back their rightful childhood.

A girl from the US packed her bags and came to India. When she met kids who were 13 years old and didn't know what soap was, she had the ingenious idea of recycling soaps, distributing them in slums for better health and hygiene, and empowering women. Here's more about Sundara soaps and it's founder Erin Zaikis.

This simple "bulb" is made out of discarded plastic bottles and lights up a dark house in an amazing away. Here is all you need to know about the innovative Liter of Light initiative and how it works.