Education

While the world gears up to celebrate ‘The International Day of the Girl Child’ on 11th October, this young Jamshedpur girl will be busy preparing for her exams and her upcoming handball tournament, while battling poverty and gender stereotypes.

Children in Tarandul village located in southwest Chhattisgarh, now go to a school that is made out of bamboo. While till 2014 the only school in the Maoist-affected village had a primary status, students here are slowly becoming more aware of the importance of education.

The Aasraa trust was started in 2009 under a bridge in Dehradun, as a small facility to teach the children of slum dwellers.

This former railway clerk from Nellore station, known as “Daddy” to more than 120 children, runs an organization that provides food for the body and soul to some of the most battered lives in our country.

Sara Fatima was forced to drop out of school at 13. Today, the brave young woman is working hard to ensure her sister does not suffer a similar fate.

Raquel Mason is a Spanish woman who has made India her home for the past ten years so she can educate and empower Dalit children, senior citizens and women.

The Hope Kolkata Foundation was founded in 1999 with the sole purpose of bettering the lives of the 2.5 lakh children who have to fend for themselves on the streets of Kolkata.

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.

Samina Bano, an IIM Bangalore alumna and RTE crusader, fought several odds in Uttar Pradesh to enable over 20,000 children from underprivileged gain access education education in private schools. This is how.

The Delhi High Court recently rejected the demand of publishers' to ban coursepacks on the grounds of violation of copyright, thus making educational content more accessible and affordable for students.