Children

mproved rates of female literacy, schemes that encourage women to give birth in hospitals, and increased spending on public health by the Indian government have all been significant factors in contributing to the falling death rates.

It is a platform for people who are terminally ill, are bereaved or are interested in knowing more about death to share their experience.

The event happens every year around International Literacy Day, with an aim to spread the joy of books to underprivileged children.

Neem leaves and Ajwain, or Bishop’s seeds, are boiled in water, and then left to cool. This concoction, not the mother’s milk, is what newborn babies are given in Dhaki village, Uttar Pradesh. Ideally, a baby must be breastfed within the first hour of its birth, as it is the child's first source of nutrition and immunity, protecting them from various diseases .

While his heart was flown to Mumbai and transplanted in three-year-old girl Aaradhya Yogesh Mule, a resident of Navi Mumbai; his kidneys will be transplanted in a 15-year-old boy from Deesa in Banaskantha district, battling renal failure for over 10 years.

They're learning farming practices from scratch on their mini farm in Whitefield, and growing pest-free vegetables which they later consume.

A student from Muttil village’s WMO English Academy in Wayanad, Didhul will teach the grown men how to make furniture from banana fibre and be accompanied by his father.

Kavya Kopparapu, with a team that includes her 15-year-old brother, Neeyanth, and classmate Justin Zhang, has developed a smartphone app called Eyeagnosis.

What began as a daily ritual of recording stories and sending them to her grandson and grandnephews and nieces, soon grew into Sarla sending weekly stories to her followers as WhatsApp audio messages.

Many children stay in shelter homes, leaving their families and villages, to pursue an education. But what happens to them after school?