Dharavi

An Australian, Mark Balla, has been raising funds for the construction of toilets in Indian schools since 2013. After making an eye-opening visit to a school in Dharavi, Mumbai, he decided to set up a charity that aims to build 20,000 toilets in schools so that teenage girls never have to leave their education midway.

The beautiful sarees, amazing sculptures and meaningful photographs, Dharavi's women artisans are using art to empower themselves. Here is how art changed their life.

While everyone knew of Malala Yousoufzai and many people came of know of Kailash Satyarthi when this year's Nobel Peace Prize winners were declared, how many of us knew that there was another Indian, Jockin Arputham, who was also nominated for the award? Let's learn about this amazing "slum dweller"!

Two young and bright minds are using technology and local knowledge to give tours of one the largest slums in the world, Dharavi, the way they have seen it - from the inside! Watch their amazing spirit of enterprise as they journey from having an idea to setting up a website, having an office and providing employment to local youth.

You will truly see how one man's trash is another man's (or woman's) meal in this essay which ventures into the Mumbai slums and takes a look into the lives of the "entrepreneurs" who are trying to eke out a living from plastic discards. Meet the fiesty Lakshmi and learn how she responds when her daughter is teased with "Teri maa kachre wali hai"!

Magic Bus steers children towards a better life with better awareness, better life skills, and better opportunities, in the journey from childhood to livelihood.