by Charu Thakur | Feb 6, 2024
(February 6, 2024) Interested in sustainability, 23-year-old Samir Lakhani found himself on a muddy trail in one of the villages of Cambodia in 2014 when he caught the sight of a woman bathing her child with laundry detergent. A young volunteer from Pennsylvania, US,...
by Amrita Priya | Jan 3, 2024
(January 3, 2024) Environmentalist Nimal Raghavan, who has revived 180 lakes in India, has won people’s heart in Kenya as well. He has earned himself the moniker ‘Wa Muva’, or ‘Son of Rain’ in the drought-stricken country, through his efforts to tackle water scarcity....
by Charu Thakur | Jan 10, 2024
(January 10, 2023) Bernice Wimmer has been trying everything to fight the hunger crisis in the city of Alexandria in Minnesota, and was looking for support in redesigning her outreach food shelf (a point where families shop for the rescued food) to help improve...
by Darshana Ramdev | Jun 1, 2024
(June 1, 2024) When the pandemic hit in 2020, people began washing their hands often, wore masks when they stepped out and maintained social distancing protocols. When the vaccines were rolled out, they lined up to receive them. Ramit Debnath, a Gates-Cambridge and...
by Mallik Thatipalli | Oct 26, 2023
(October 26, 2023) Of the world’s 570 million farms, over 80 percent cover less than two hectares, the size of three football pitches. Together, these small-holding farms produce a third of our food, but those who farm them are among the poorest people on the planet...