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This Organisation Has Provided Therapy to More Than 2,500 Children with...
Bal Asha Trust is a not-for-profit organisation that was founded in October 1985 in Mumbai. For the past 31 years, it has rehabilitated more than 1,500 destitute/abandoned children from various parts...
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TBI Blogs: This Woman & Her Domestic Help Teach Hundreds of Needy kids in Noida
An urge to serve the society pushed Meena Nijhawan to educate underprivileged children in Nodia through her Sankalp Saksharta Samiti school. In the year 1993, Meena Nijhawan, a resident of Noida,...
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Parents in Rural AP Are Rating Their Kids’ Schools Using Mobile Phones....
This article has been made possible by NASSCOM Foundation. School Score Card, a digital school performance tracking tool, is helping parents in rural Andhra Pradesh hold government schools accountable...
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TBI Blogs: How This School Dropout Is Working Hard to Provide Her Sister With...
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. Twenty-one-year-old Sara Fatima is a resident of...
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TBI Blogs: This Author & Her Partner Are Encouraging Critical Thinking in...
How Delhi-based author Mridula Koshy and her partner, Michael Creighton's efforts to reconnect with the city they once called home, led to the birth of the Deepalaya Community Library, that is now...
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Dehradun Organisation Educates 1300 Street Children & is Raising Funds For...
The Aasraa trust was started in 2009 under a bridge in Dehradun, as a small facility to teach the children of slum dwellers. The founder of Aasraa, Shaila Brijnath, is an ex-investment banker who left...
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TBI Blogs: This Handball Champion Who Battles Poverty & Gender Stereotypes...
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,...
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This 18-Year-Old Started a Zomato for Schools to Help Students & Their...
Akshay Agrawal, an 18-year-old student, used to study in a school in Vashi, Navi Mumbai. The school had classes only till Class 10. So after his board exams, he had to start the procedure of seeking...
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MY VIEW: Everyone Should Be a Teacher, Even If Just For a Day
Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi often takes on the role of a guest lecturer for students of a rural school in Maharashtra. Here, he explains why he believes every one of us should become a teacher. Long ago (late...
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Daughter of Lifetime Imprisonment Convicts Goes To School With The Help Of...
Four-year-old Priti Kewat from Rewa, Madhya Pradesh started going to the BNP Memorial Higher Secondary School this week. It’s normal for a small child her age to step out of the house, holding her...
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TBI Blogs: How One Young Man with an MA in Finance Is Using Technology to...
Kushal Dattani was pursuing his Masters in Finance in Australia, when he first took on the role of a special education teacher. Today, he is helping teachers build more inclusive classrooms through his...
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MY VIEW: Why I Believe Indian Classics Should Be Taught in All Schools
Language, culture and history act as a pillar of psychological support and encourage us to take pride in our country; Indian classics and epics are one way to reinforce this in our children. Last year,...
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The Lack of Environmental Education in India and Why It Is a Must-Teach Subject
Environmental studies is an important subject that should be taught across all schools in India. But the situation on ground is really grim when it comes to teaching this subject and hiring those who...
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Remembering IAS Officer Anita Kaul, Who Reformed Our Education System with...
Education doesn't just lead to individual freedom and empowerment, it also lays the foundation of a country's social prosperity and economic development. This makes a sound school education system the...
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Why an IIT Graduate Left His Cushy Job Abroad to Set Up Digital Classrooms in...
When Pramod Kumar, who belongs to a small village in Bihar, decided to prepare for engineering exams, he was struck by the lack of educational resources like textbooks in regional languages. Pramod’s...
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These Ingenious IIT Students Are Using Scrap Tyres to Build a Library and...
How an architecture company founded by IITians is using scrap tyres as construction material to build playgrounds and a library for underprivileged children in Bangalore. In urban areas, pressure from...
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A ‘Spark’ of Brilliance: IIT-Mandi Students’ Initiative to Provide Quality...
‘Spark’ is an initiative by the students of IIT Mandi (Himachal Pradesh), which focuses on providing academic as well as extra-curricular inputs to four government schools located in the villages of...
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Food, Education, Clothes, Shelter & Theatre: Jamghat’s Way of Rehabilitating...
Jamghat is a Delhi-based organisation that brings street children into the mainstream by providing them with resources and helping them stand on their own feet. Back in 2003, when theatre enthusiast...
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Story of Grit & Grace: Haben Girma, First Deaf-Blind Student to Graduate from...
From being the first deaf-blind student to graduate from Harvard Law School to becoming an internationally acclaimed accessibility leader and lawyer, Haben Girma’s journey exemplifies grit, grace, and...
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Delhi’s Shahbad Dairy Is Witnessing a Unique Drive for Education. And It’s...
Shahbad Dairy in Delhi is an area populated mostly by daily wagers and migrant workers, where the focus is always on survival. In this grim reality, a 14-year-old girl is leading the fight for...
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