Children

How Delhi-based author Mridula Koshy and her partner, Michael Creighton's efforts to reconnect with the city they once called home, led to the birth of the Deepalaya Community Library, that is now helping hundreds of children become readers and, more importantly, thinkers.

Visha Suchde tweeted an image of the numerous packets of Parle G that she stocks up in her car so she can give them to impoverished children.

Kalpana, 12, a street child who stays under Teen Haat Naka flyover in Mumbai, could have died of malaria last month had it not been for the help arranged by Signal Shala.

Communities Rising runs after-school programmes for children in parts of rural Tamil Nadu. They are using StoryWeaver to help inculcate a love of reading in their students.

In 2015, Ashok Deshmane founded Snehwan – a home and school for children of marginalised and drought-affected farmers.

In the second installment of Sudipto Pal's unique 5000km solo cycle ride for child rights, he meets an awe-inspiring teacher in Lahaul and Spiti who leaves him feeling optimistic the state of education in India. Read on to learn more.

Satish Pawar’s family came to Mumbai from Beed district in Maharashtra in the year 1997 with the hope of finding work in the big city and building a better future for themselves. But little did they know that they’d have to spend their lives on the streets for years and generations to come.

Having seen his sisters deprived of an education, this cab driver refused to let the same happen to his daughter. He now works two jobs and often sacrifices his sleep in his mission to educate his daughter.

Concerned about water pollution, five school kids from Kalkeri village in the Gadag district of Karnataka, convinced village residents to use idols made of eco-friendly materials only. This is how.

An e-box launched for the safety and anonymity of children, has been launched as a part of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act of 2012, or POCSO.