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Teachers Took Nail Cutters, Not Textbooks, to This Tribal Hamlet in Tamil Nadu. Two Years Later, 50 Children Are in... Schools
The Better India 3 days ago

Teachers Took Nail Cutters, Not Textbooks, to This Tribal Hamlet in Tamil Nadu. Two Years Later, 50 Children Are in...

When 82-year-old educator Padmini arrived at the Kombai tribal settlements in Tamil Nadu, she brought not textbooks but nail cutters - understanding that dignity must be taught before grammar can take root. Her "School on Wheels" programme, which began on Saturdays in 2024,...

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I’m a Pediatrician in Michigan Who Created Rx Kids, One of the nation’s Largest anti-poverty Programs – here’s What I’ve...
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At -20°C, Ladakh’s First Woman Gynaecologist Went Door-to-Door Delivering Babies
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The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind – the Marginalian
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This Assam Man Turned Annual Floods Into Fish Farming for 300+ Families
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‘Our Forefathers Are Coming back’: Naga People Celebrate After Oxford Museum Agrees to Return Remains | Global Development | the...
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Virginia Woolf on Creativity – the Marginalian Arts
themarginalian.org 16 hours ago

Virginia Woolf on Creativity – the Marginalian

Virginia Woolf believed that the shocks life delivers - the sudden, vertiginous moments that pierce the "cotton wool...

The world’s First Solar Ambulance Just Completed Its First real-world Test in Rural Kenya | the Optimist Daily Technology
The Optimist Daily 22 hours ago

The world’s First Solar Ambulance Just Completed Its First real-world Test in Rural Kenya | the Optimist Daily

In the Narok region of Kenya, where rough roads stretch for hours between communities and the power grid cannot be...

How This Senior Travel Company Is Helping Over 350 Seniors Travel with Confidence Elders
The Better India 1 day ago

How This Senior Travel Company Is Helping Over 350 Seniors Travel with Confidence

After losing her father to cancer at 64 - just months after watching him dance beside the sea in Kerala - Saakshi...

National Teacher of the Year Has a Brilliant Plan to Recruit More Young teachers: Invite Them Schools
Upworthy 1 day ago

National Teacher of the Year Has a Brilliant Plan to Recruit More Young teachers: Invite Them

Leon Smith has spent 25 years teaching at the same Pennsylvania high school - a quiet act of devotion in a profession...

Silicon Valley Engineer Left Coding to Grow 10 Lakh Native Saplings for Butterflies Environment
The Better India 1 day ago

Silicon Valley Engineer Left Coding to Grow 10 Lakh Native Saplings for Butterflies

A Silicon Valley engineer who once cleaned insects from windscreens as a child - back when there were enough to...

What If Giving Away a day’s Revenue Was the Best Day of Your year? Business
Positive News 1 day ago

What If Giving Away a day’s Revenue Was the Best Day of Your year?

Every September 11th, the trading floor of BGC Group fills with celebrities closing deals worth tens of millions -...