From donating $5M to providing blue-collar jobs – the top Social Stories of the week
This week, SocialStory witnessed a slew of stories on donations, crowdfunding, kindness, and providing livelihoods. Also, read our explainer on India’s mass inoculation drive, all set to begin today.
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SocialStory delved into the workings of crowdfunding platforms that raised crores of money, aiding thousands of social causes during the pandemic.
In fact, we also witnessed
Founder of SpaceX and Co-founder of Tesla Inc Elon Musk’s kind gesture, who donated $5 million to Khan Academy, a non-profit educational platform.
With the vaccines rolling out today in India, we bring you a
The life and death of Lakshmi Kumari, an elephant as old as the Indian Constitution
For most of her life of 70 years, she was entitled to a promise of compassion. But it was never delivered. Representative image. | Sivaram V/ Reuters
Towards the end of 2020, a world desperate for feel-good stories celebrated the deliverance of “the world’s loneliest elephant” from three decades of captivity in Pakistan. Born in Sri Lanka in 1985 Kaavan was gifted to Pakistan as a young, frightened and lonely calf. His sole companion, another elephant from Bangladesh, died in 2012.
After years of campaigning and court cases, Kaavan was freed by a judgement from the Islamabad High Court, which notably built on the principle laid down by the Indian Supreme Court that animals also have an equal constitutional claim to a right to a dignified life. After boarding a Russian plane that stopped to refuel in Delhi, he finally reached a sanctuary in Cambodia where the singer Cher,