by Charu Thakur | Dec 8, 2024
(December 8, 2024) At just five years old, Madhvi Chittoor watched a documentary about a Pacific island covered in plastic waste. Birds were eating trash, fish swam in polluted water, and the beauty of the island was destroyed. For Madhvi, this was more than just...
by Charu Thakur | Sep 11, 2024
(September 11, 2024) “Girls Too Poor to Buy Sanitary Products Missing School” – this headline on the BBC website in 2017 was the starting point of a revolution that was set to change the course of the education system in the UK. Behind this tectonic...
by Darshana Ramdev | Jun 13, 2024
(June 14, 2024) Litisha Bagadia and Siya Joshi, the co-founders of the Ayika Foundation, were busy brainstorming their next climate action movement. Their challenge, however, was much larger than simply getting people to show up and then go back home. They wanted to...
by Darshana Ramdev | Dec 21, 2023
(December 21, 2023) Aditya Mukarji is a familiar face in the growing crop of young global climate warriors, who are boldly taking their fight to the doorsteps of the powers that be. Mukarji’s cause is the battle against single-use plastics, one of the most...
by Charu Thakur | Oct 20, 2023
(October 20, 2023) “Our school’s lunch menu lacked diversity in all aspects, and I couldn’t believe that the same five ingredients seemingly rotated into different meals somehow met the guidelines for a balanced meal,” says Indian-American teen...
