Project Smile: A young man’s mission to let his neighbourhood children smile confidently

While growing up in the Kanchanrup municipality in the Saptari district of Southeastern Nepal, Rishav Das never realised why his teeth looked better than the kids in his neighbourhood. In fact, he did not notice that as he belonged to a well-off family in the community and he did not interact much with neighbouring kids.

In 2018, Das, as a biotechnology undergraduate studying in Kathmandu, went to his village in Saptari on Dashain vacation. Then, he saw some children playing beside his house and joined them to enjoy the company. While playing, all of them laughed together and at that moment, he happened to notice the stains on the children’s teeth.