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About our Founder

Sonal Mukhiya Education, Health & Nutrition, Child Protection, Poverty & Inclusion, Resilience Building, and Humanitarian Aid are all areas of focus for Sonal Foundation. In order to maximise the benefits for children, our strategy is to develop and carry out long-term programmes centred around these topics in close collaboration with local and governmental authorities.

Mumbai Flood, 2022

Heavy rain has been falling in Mumbai as the monsoon season begins. On Monday, the city has seen heavy rains that have caused flooding in various areas and severe traffic congestion. Trains have been cancelled, and bus routes have been changed. On Tuesday, state chief executive Eknath Shinde assessed the flood situation in the state. Mumbai faces water-logging, traffic woes …

Secondary Schooling

A secondary school, often referred to as a high school or a senior high school, is a school which provides secondary education, between the ages of 11 to 19 depending on location, after primary school and before higher education.

Mountains all around the world

A mountain is a large land form that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill. Mountains are formed through tectonic forces or volcanism. These forces can locally raise the surface of the earth. Mountains erode slowly through the action of rivers, weather conditions, …

Safe Drinking Water Act

The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) is the principal federal law in the United States intended to ensure safe drinking water for the public. Pursuant to the act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to set standards for drinking water quality and oversee all states, localities, and water suppliers who implement these standards. SDWA applies to every public water …

Preserving Wildlifes

Wildlife traditionally refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all plants, fungi, and other organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems. Deserts, forests, rain forests, plains, grasslands, and other areas including the most developed urban sites, all have distinct forms of wildlife. While …

Life Under Water

Three quarters of the planet Earth is covered by water. A majority of the planet’s solid surface is abyssal plain, at depths between 4,000 and 5,500 metres (13,100 and 18,000 ft) below the surface of the oceans. The solid surface location on the planet closest to the centre of the orb is the Challenger Deep, located in the Mariana Trench …

Birds From Around the World

Birds are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5 cm bee hummingbird to the 2.75 m  ostrich. They rank as the class of tetrapods with the most living …