By Manjira Majumdar

Poverty and inaccessibility keep the adivasi children of six villages in Birbhum district, West Bengal, out of government schools. But they are getting an innovative and creative non-formal education at Suchana. A storybook written and illustrated by the children themselves has just been published More...

Every house in Ghachowk village in Nepal has a toilet, and the community takes responsibility for keeping the village clean. Local schoolchildren were the first to learn these lessons and did a splendid job of passing them on to adults More...

Streetchildren and former child labourers have come together at Jamghat to use theatre for social awareness More...

The Children's Development Bank offers loans to poor children to start up small businesses and teaches them to become self-reliant More...

The Bachpan Bachao Andolan/South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude has adopted some unique strategies in its campaign to free children who are forced into slave labour More...

Backed by the Community Aid and Sponsorship Programme (CASP)-PLAN, Bhopal's slum children, trained by Unicef, are taking the initiative and holding workshops on the importance of clean drinking water and sanitation More...

There are at least 100,000 streetchildren in New Delhi. The Salaam Baalak Trust's shelters and contact points offer some of these children healthcare and nutrition, basic literacy, counseling and vocational training More...

A supplementary education project in Kutch, Gujarat, shows how meaningful education is possible despite the limitations of the state-managed education system More...

Against all odds, a special school for the mentally challenged is producing artists who sell. More...

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