(December 18, 2024) It was in 2022 a then 14-year-old Tejas Pugalia realised that countless students in rural India miss school during monsoons due to a lack of school bags to protect their books. This sudden awareness that the attendance rate dropped to 28 percent...
At just 18, Australia based Rhea Werner is proving that age is no barrier to impact. With roots spanning Indian, Malaysian, and German heritage, she has channelled her multicultural perspective into powerful advocacy for mental health and eating disorder awareness....
(October 18, 2024) In 2015, Karthik Ramu’s life changed in a way that few teenagers could have anticipated. His grandfather, living thousands of miles away in Coimbatore, India, suffered a near-fatal heart attack. Karthik, at the time a high school student in...
(June 19, 2024) Growing up in Bengaluru, Jeya Malhotra often saw children with intellectual disabilities being mocked or bullied in her apartment complex. The sight was painful as these kids couldn’t defend themselves, but what she found daunting was the lack of...
(January 26, 2024) Up to 7800 kilotonnes of textile waste gets accumulated in India each year with pre-consumer waste making for a steep 42 percent, out of which 17 percent ends up in landfills. Seeing piles of wasted fabric stacked in corners of his dad’s...
