School

In a small town in West Bengal, Ananya Ghosh is defying tradition and the pressures of society and poverty to become a role model for girls.

Many kids living in Mumbai's slums have to drop out of school because their parents cannot afford their fees or want them to work instead. Three Gandhi Fellows understood the gravity of this situation and decided to do something about it.

The residents of Springfields Co-op Housing Society in Kothrud, Pune, collect old cycles, repair them, and donate them to village kids who have to walk 3 to 7 km everyday to reach their classrooms.

Underprivileged at-risk children and child labourers in the Kashmir valley are slowly getting the opportunity to gain an education again.

“My father dropped me to my first workplace. I could never tell him how much I wanted him to drop me to a school instead,” says Mohsin, who is struggling to go to school and dreams of a better life.

This village woman walks on a kuchcha road everyday to fetch water. She comes back home to cook on a mud chulha, with no electricity in the house. You can help her.

Even as urban India continues to develop at a dramatic pace, a tiny settlement in Maharashtra still awaits what most of us take for granted - electricity, potable water, roads….and a well-functioning school.

The Vivekanand Education Society, which produces 100 kilograms of waste, has a zero-waste campus. While dry waste is given away to recycle, wet waste is used for composting. In the end, none of the waste generated ends up in landfills.

Harekala Hajabba saved up every rupee he made by selling oranges and started the first school in his village near Mangaluru.

The video is about inclusion of HIV AIDS patients through Keshav a small boy who was denied education by a teacher but was readmitted to his school through the efforts of a community correspondent.