Matoshree Pearl, a housing society of Mumbai has gone from an ordinary housing society to an entirely green housing society, with a self-sustaining waste management programme and an organic terrace farm. Find out how they do it in this episode…

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I lost my father early on. I watched my mother take over the responsibility of the household and bring us up. She sold vegetables every day and worked night and day to educate us…

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Here’s a graffiti that celebrates an idea that cares for the less privileged children and the environment. This artwork is a result of days of hard work. Let’s add our bit to this valuable effort by depositing our used Tetra Pak cartons in the various depositing centres around Mumbai.

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My parents are social workers. They’ve dedicated their lives to underprivileged kids––they run a school for them. When I was a child, many of my father’s students would stay with us at home, and my mom would feed them. I grew up watching them take care of people…they nurtured these kids and helped them grow in life. I wanted to carry their values forward.

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I was 13 when I started teaching my friends Math in school. I realised then that I really enjoyed it and wanted to do more, so I started volunteering with an NGO in Dharavi. Every week, I would go teach underprivileged kids. But, I started noticing that my students were skipping out on their classes more and more because they were falling sick. On asking them about it, I learnt that they spent most of their days working in landfills and it was affecting their health. It was heart-breaking.

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