This teacher spent 20 years of his life for the upliftment of one of Kerala’s most underprivileged tribes
Back in 1999, the state education department of Kerala, India, started opening single-teacher schools in remote tribal settlements scattered in various forested areas across the state. This was due to the reason that back then, the only tribal lower primary school was in Edamalakkudy and students had to travel for an entire day or two just to reach school. 29-year-old PK Muraleedharan was a volunteer with...
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Amazon tribe wins lawsuit against oil companies, protects rainforest from drilling
The Amazon rainforest is home to millions of plant and animal species as well as some of the last remaining indigenous tribes. When the home of one of such tribes – the indigenous Waorani community in Ecuador – was threatened by a big oil company, they decided to fight back. The tribe won a landmark lawsuit against three government bodies for conducting a faulty consultation process with the...
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Scores of homeless people in LA will have clean laundry this week, thanks to this laundry truck
Shouldn’t the ability to wear washed, clean clothes be one of our basic rights? Unfortunately, for hundreds of people living on the streets of LA, this is not the case. Laundry truck LA is a non-profit created in 2017 by DOLAN Clothing founder Jodie Dolan that provides free laundry services to homeless people in Los Angeles. The service only operates for six hours every Thursday at Huntington Park....
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This man is helping 150,000 Indian kids fight malnutrition by growing superfood in his backyard
Despite being one of the fastest growing economies in the world, India continues to grapple with widespread poverty, illiteracy and malnutrition. In fact, the number of malnourished, underweight children in India is almost double than that of Sub Saharan Africa. In 2009, Mahesh RV, a final year engineering student at PES Institute of Technology in Bengaluru, came across a headline that said 42% of all children...
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Teenage crane operator rescues 14 people trapped in a burning building
A Chinese teenage crane operator Lan Junze is being hailed as a hero after he bravely managed to rescue fourteen people trapped inside a burning building. Lan was working at a construction site in Fushun when he noticed a seven-story building catch fire. The 19-year-old took quick action and rushed to the spot with his crane. A video showing the braveheart using his crane to rescue residents from the fire has...
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Indian researchers develop self-cleaning glass that uses sunlight to purify water
Most sewage treatment plants are capable of filtering out the solid particles and toxic inorganic compounds from waste water. However, it is the microbes and organic pollutants like dyes, drugs and detergents that pose the real problem as it is extremely difficult to filter them out. Now researchers at IIT Mandi, India, have developed self-cleaning transparent calcium borate glasses and titanium dioxide glass...
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Man celebrating his own birthday jumps into chilly river to save a drowning dog
Last week, Gabe Castellanos had been celebrating his birthday with some friends on the Brooklyn Barge when they spotted a dog in the water and assumed it was going for a swim on a hot day. But when the dog kept swimming farther from the pier, its petsitter suddenly approached the group and said that Harper had run away. That’s when Castellanos realized that Harper the dog was on the verge of drowning and...
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This Mumbai woman gives street singers the chance to live a life of dignity
Nine years ago, while boarding a local train in Mumbai on her way to a musical show, Hemlata Tiwari was mesmerized by the voice and talent of two street singers who were welcoming the travelers. Later that evening, as she listened to the musical show performers on stage, her mind kept going back to the two street singers she’d heard on the local train. That’s when an idea struck her that with a...
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Meet the woman who struggled for five years to protect Cook Islands waters
Marine conservationist Jacqueline Evans recently won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her relentless five-year campaign to protect over 763,000 square miles of ocean from pollution, seabed mining, and overfishing. She was instrumental in the passing of the Marae Moana legislation in the Cook Islands which was meant to protect the ocean territory rich with stunning array of marine...
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Meet the Indian duo that converted 275 tons of plastic trash into innovative, pretty and eco-friendly tiles
Paras Saluja’s trip to the Everest Base Camp in 2015 gave his life a new meaning. Not only did the trek ignite in him a passion to do something useful for his country, it also made him aware of the plastic waste issue and how plastic litter was impacting one of the most beautiful places on Earth. His trip to Vietnam in 2017 finally shaped his vision. Paras found out that plastic trash, right from shopping...
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