poor kids

Dr Lalita Sharma from Indore runs ‘Abha Kunj’ and educates around 500 students annually. She has had an army of 200 volunteers over the years who have joined her in this mission.

Join ‘To India’s Children’ -- a campaign as part of which The Better India is working with various NGOs across India to give children access to education, nutrition, shelter, support and more.

For nearly 20 years, Irappa Naik worked hard and saved money to open a free school for poor children in Maharashtra

This is the story of thousands of kids studying in government schools in Bengaluru. The first-generation school-goers. The children of migrant and daily wage labourers who were empowered with wings to soar to their dreams, by city-based NGO, Dream School Foundation.

For almost 30 years Biswanath Naru, a.k.a 'Mastermoshai' ran his school for underprivileged children without electricity and benches. But his hard work and noble efforts eventually paid off!

Today, Sakshi is a social entrepreneur and co-founder of Bucket List, a city-based NGO that has impacted the lives of more than 2000 kids in the last three years.

A whiteboard, markers, and a duster for the teachers and a carpet laid on the ground for them to sit on, 15 such study centres across Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and recently, Rajasthan, are providing free-of-cost education for slum and street kids since 2013.

Trisha Bhattacharya and Soorya Balasubramanian, students of classes 9 and 10 from Vibgyor High School in Goregaon, were behind this initiative.