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💧Reviving Rivers, Restoring Life 💧

Members of River Protection Committees established under our Empowered Communitites for Environment Protection and Disaster Preparedness (ECEPDP) initiative, travelled from Nimapada to Bhubaneswar to represent needs and priorities of communities living along Kushabhadra, Bhargavi, and Dhanua river belts, at the Odisha Nadi Surakhya Sammilani (Odisha River Protection Convention) organised today by the Mahanadi Bachao Andolan (Save Mahanadi Movement) in collaboration with Open Learning Systems.

The Chief Guest at the Convention was Dr. Rajendra Singh, the Water Man of India. 💧✊🏾

[River Protection, Rivers are Life, Community Outreach, No Development Without Environment Protection, Odisha]

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We are at today for the 2025 Special Olympics State-level Badminton Selection Games. Qualifying athletes will head to Gujarat in June for the National Championships, whose winners will ultimately battle for glory at the 2027 Summer Olympics in Chile! Let's go!! 🏸💪🏾

Kudos to partners, athletes, and parents, for overcoming the heat and all odds to make today possible. Immensely grateful to our location partner for so generously opening their doors to our very special athletes! ✨

[Special Olympics, weekend special, badminton, Odisha, state selection, athletes, special needs and abilities, Summer Olympics 2027, Chile, 🇮🇳🇨🇱]

Open Learning Systems (OLS), dedicated, since 1987, to championing the rights of children, adolescents, women, particularly those with disabilities or experiencing other vulnerabilities, through special education, community outreach, advocacy, and inclusive development.

[Open Learning Systems, NGO, civil society organisation, human rights, child rights, inclusion, Bhubaneswar]

We are extremely proud of our student, Sipra Priyadarshini, who stood up and decided to be counted as a determined Special Olympics Athlete in the World Winter Games held in Turin last month. The diminutive goalkeeper of Special Olympics Bharat was like a wall, thwarting several attempts of the oppositions at the goal in the Female Floorball competition, and was instrumental in bagging the bronze medal for the team.

Read more on Sipra and her team's achievements, here: https://olsbbsr.org/open-learning-systems-student-sipra-priyadarshini-helps-special-olympics-bharat-bag-bronze-medal-at-world-winter-games-2025/