Asia · Southern Asia
31 projects · 31 organizations
Yuwa fields girls' football teams and runs a free school in rural Jharkhand, using the game to keep girls in the classroom and out of child marriage.
Villagers across rural Bengal stage forum theatre plays that let audiences step onstage and rehearse standing up to domestic violence, child marriage and corruption.
Magic Bus uses weekly sports sessions led by young community mentors to keep India's poorest adolescents in school and out of child labour and early marriage.
Rural grandmothers from dozens of countries train in Tilonia, Rajasthan to become 'Solar Mamas' who electrify their own villages.
India's first accredited surf school pays coastal kids in free surf lessons for every 5kg of beach trash they collect, turning Chennai's Kovalam shoreline into a classroom for ocean literacy.