Akshaya Patra’s International Photography Contest: Click a Smile
Overview: Click a Smile is Akshaya Patra’s annual international photography competition. Eligible to both professional and amateur photographers, Click a Smile 2014 will run from 20th November to 22nd December, 2014. The competition focusses on the innate joy and innocence of a child’s smile, and celebrates this. Therefore to participate …
How a UPenn Graduate is Empowering the Untapped Potential of India
“The future of India lies in its villages.” This famous quote by Mahatma Gandhi is being threatened today with India looking towards a shining future in its cities and skyscrapers. However Zubin Sharma, a 24 year-old graduate of University of Pennsylvania, took Gandhi’s words to heart. After starting an organization …
Social Experiment: Underage Smoking in India
It’s a little surprising that the same people telling the child that smoking is poor for health have cigarettes in their hands! People need to set a better example for the youth.
Indian Mom's Reaction to Daughter Coming Out
First, you are upset, but then near the end, you see the magic!
Aarambh Helps Indian Children Learn By Solving Two Key Problems
Indian students often lack basic materials such as desks and backpacks. This creative and simple solution is changing how some students learn at school. Check out their website to learn about their other projects and help them out!
Police Officer Harrases Students Trying to Teach Sex Workers' Children
Education is key to progress. If we want to see people come out of circumstances that force them to become sex workers, then education is key. Mocking students for this is just an indication of the person’s ignorance and inability to see or do any good.
Eat Dog Poop or Be Sexually Abused? Decisions Children in Karjat Shelter Home were Forced to Make
Some events in life are so unpleasant, unbelievable, and down-right cruel that after reading about it people are speechless and just stare at their laptop screens. This such an incident. One of the worst incidents regarding young children being sexually abused has occurred at the Karjat Shelter home. The house …
Polio Aunties: Tough Job Ahead to Maintain Eradication
Rukhsar Khatoon was 18 months old when she was diagnosed with polio, and was the last to have the disease in India. Polio may seem like a distant problem to us, because it was eradicated in the US in 1979. However, it remains a problem in many developing nations such …
Equal Education for the Disabled
About 12 million children are living with disabilities in India today. Only 1% of these children have access to school, and the few that do usually don’t go beyond basic education. Most people with disabilities in India don’t live past the age of 40, and very few are employed. The Problem …
Children's Asthma: A Circulating Problem
As global pollution continues to skyrocket, ash begins to cloud the air and acid rain begins to fall. In the Indian city of Chandrapur, noxious chemicals such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide are regularly produced by the twelve local power plants. Numerous additional factors contribute to the city’s rising pollution …
