Why Is It Easier for India to Get to Mars Than to Tackle Its Toilet Challenge?

In 2013, India became the fourth country in the world (after Russia, the US and the EU) and the only emerging nation to launch a Mars probe into space. But it remains part ...

Do We Know What Our Children Want?

"There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."

J.K. Rowling

Over the last one century or so, ordin...

WHO Develops Electronic Solution To Child, Maternal Deaths

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has developed an electronic solution using hospital-based study on 10,000 pregnant women in Nigeria and Uganda to reduce the high labour...

Two Princeton Students Are Helping Hundreds Of Indians Learn English For Free Using Mobile Phones

A basic mobile phone can become a tool of learning, thanks to Vaasvi Goyal and Kasturi Shah’s free English teaching service:
Hello, Seekho
An eight-year-ol...

In Rwanda, A Phone Text Can Save A Baby

Using an old mobile phone, health worker Floride Uwinkesha logs the latest local pregnancy, part of efforts in Rwanda to boost maternal health through a monitoring programm...

The Next Great Elimination Story: Malaria

Editor’s note: In commemoration of World Malaria Day, April 25, PATH will be sharing stories over the next five weeks from the front lines of the malaria elimination ...

GIRL PEES IN PUBLIC | SHOCKING REACTIONS?

"We don't know who's watching, who's waiting for us.”

A country 614 million-women-strong with 636 million of its total population without safe sanitation. ...

Mobile Phones: Patriarchy's New Red Alert

Villages are imposing mobile phone bans on young women in order to control their new independence and mobility. It started with KhapPanchayats in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and...

Women And Girls Imperative To Science And Technology Agenda

Can you imagine an entire day without access to your mobile phone, laptop, or even to the internet? In our rapidly changing world, could you function without having technol...