Children

The guidelines issued by WHO aims to tackle a larger issue – childhood obesity. Sedentary lifestyles, unhealthy eating habits and the worrisome trend of children choosing to spend more time watching videos than playing outdoors, are all contributing factors.

Keeping it simple but not discounting on the fun factor at all, Sonal Gawde and Shreyes Menon have proved it that any occasion can be celebrated without generating mounds of waste—be it food or non-biodegradable elements!

“It was after a jarring incident, when a desperately hungry child asked his mother to take a customer, that the gravity of the situation hit me hard.”

"Apart from this, we are also able to do long term monitoring of patients by which doctors are able to assess how they are faring with the administered medicines.”

At a time when private education is booming in India, there are people like 69-year-old H Venkatesha, who have spent close to four decades working towards the upliftment of Kodigehalli Primary Government School, in a suburb in India's Silicon City.

The impact they have created so far can increase multifold and help in the sustainable development of these villages.

“My parents were both primary school teachers and a large part of my fascination with books began because of them,” she begins.

Leaving marks on the skin, SoaPen aims to promote thorough and regular hand-washing with soap among children.

A short film by Mumbai-based filmmaker Aarti Bagdi, Udne Do sheds light on the prevalence of child sexual abuse through an eye-opening narrative set against the backdrop of a school.

As the year comes to an end, we take this opportunity to shed light on some of these young champs, whose selfless actions and visionary initiatives made the country take notice.