Today, Children’s Day is also the birth anniversary of Padma Shri Sindhutai Sapkal who dedicated her entire life to taking care of orphaned children.

It is a story of the resilience of four siblings aged 9 to 16 years from a tribal village in Jharkhand who lost their parents and elder sister to tuberculosis within a span of few months. They had to drop out of school and sell rice beer in order to survive. But, their story has a happy ending. Read on.

A charitable canteen run by Swati Shringi in Kota, Rajasthan is filling the hearts and stomachs of people who get a nutritious meal there for Rs 5.

Bihar is India’s most flood-prone state and recurring floods, apart from displacing millions every year, also contribute to human trafficking as poor families spend several months in flood relief camps from where their children are lured into ‘jobs’. Gaon Connection met several such children and here is what they told us.

Over 1,300 rural girls from the tribal communities of West Singhbhum district in Jharkhand have got a second shot at education thanks to the initiative of the Camp School which offers a nine-month course and helps enrol girls in government schools.

For the past three decades, national award winning teacher Gamchi Timre R Marak has been providing education in remote town Williamnagar in northeast India.