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Twenty-four-year-old Sanju Kaim delivered about 200 babies last year and is among dozens

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Twenty-four-year-old Sanju Kaim delivered about 200 babies last year and is among dozens

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  1. Thirteen-year-old Salim Sheikh and his friends are putting their sprawling Kolkata slum on the map – literally. For a year now, they’ve been gathering data about the people, houses and other facts that clearly identify their Rishi Aurobindo Colony. Soon, they will be uploading much of the information to Google Earth.

  2. The “new Pratibha,” as her parents call her, proudly shows a neatly-kept balance book. With the help of a bank and skills learnt through the “Deepshikha” program, 17-year-old Pratibha Vankherde and her friends started a small fabric business that helped them to save money. Pratibha says her self confidence has soared and eventually she wants to become an engineer.

  3. Fourteen-year-old Robin Das thinks tea stall customers shouldn’t beat child servers, shop owners shouldn’t steal wages and parents should help children stay in school. “These are just some of my thoughts. But now, I can share them,” says Das who has been chosen from a group of disadvantaged children to join a radio program in Kolkata that puts children behind the microphone.

  4. Putul Sharma shoots for her video “Pressure,” which tells her personal struggle with herparents demand that she marry at 16. Putul explains how she wished that she could finish school and how, through the video, she was able to finally speak to her parents about it.“They were looking for a groom for me but I didn’t dare tell them about my wish until finally they saw me doing the video,” says Sharma.

  5. Twenty-one-year-old Khumeshwar Sahu organized the entire community in his village to pick up garbage. He also approached their gram panchayat (local government) for five large dustbins installed along the lanes. “We did all this good work and wanted people to maintain it. The village also adopted the idea of building toilets in every house so no one would use the fields,” he says.

  6. Eighteen-year-old Rushali Gajabhaye is more sophisticated than most teenagers her age.Without hesitation, she will stand before a crowd of other village girls and talk about the importance of safe sex, or spend a few moments demonstrating the proper application of a condom on a plastic model of a penis. “It is not difficult to share this information with girls because, they are just like me and want to stay healthy,” she says.

  7. Sixteen-year-old Pausha Madharia was chosen to stand before the State Assembly of about 50 legislators to share her concerns. Without hesitation, she told them that drunken men on the road outside a wine shop in her neighbouring village were regularly threatening school children. “I asked that these shops be moved away from any public place,” says Pausha.

  8. Eighteen-year-old Laxmi Durge is determined to pass on the knowledge and inspiration that she has recently acquired in the Sports for Development Programme supported by UNICEF, government and NGO partners. “I am the community sports coach. We are teaching children in our village how to stay strong and healthy,” says Durge with shy pride as she leads children in an hour-long series of games.

  9. Twenty-four-year-old Sanju Kaim delivered about 200 babies last year and is among dozens of young midwives striving to make a difference in Madhya Pradesh, where infant and maternal mortality rates are high. “I was so happy to do this. I had no regrets about joining this field, because, it is so good to help children and their mothers. It gives me a lot of pride,” says Sanju.

  10. Fifteen-year-old Govinder Jauhar refused to go to school until his parents constructed a toilet in his home shared with 10 family members. Their family became the first to build a toilet in his village of 45 families. Now, neighbours in Morekhedi village are following their example. Govinder and other children run cleanliness campaigns in their schools and communities.

  11. Twenty-year-old SeemaDwivdi and her fellow “Messengers of Knowledge” don’t miss the chance to pass on information aimed at improving villagers’ lives. On the agenda today is a discussion on team-building and the importance of equality for women. “We try to tell the villagers to stop discrimination, because, while we might be physically different, our mental abilities are the same,” says Seema.

  12. Give this soft-spoken boy a pen and notepad, and there isn’t a topic that he won’t tackle. Whether it’s a village official who cuts corners, or a teacher who doesn’t turn up for class, 14-year-old GopalKushawa interviews all concerned and publishes his account in “Voice of Children,” a newspaper which is circulated every month in rural communities across Madhya Pradesh.

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