In less than seven minutes of dialing 100, we had two police officers and an ambulance waiting to take us to the hospital.
Avani Prasad was suffereing from acute depression and her dream of becoming an IAS took a backseat. Although, she didn’t want anyone to undergo the same traumatic experience. She started an organization named Spandan to make mental health services more affordable to people.
Shipra goel was always commented about being fat. She was forced to go the gym and her health continued to deteriorate. She started doing yoga to maintain her weight as it was the easiest option and eventually took it up as her profession.
Mariya had to leave college in the first year to get married. After marriage, she was busy with her responsibilities for her family and never got a chance to start her education again.
“I hit my lowest when I wanted to play the lead in a school play. I was meant for it. But, I was asked to play the role of a tree instead since it would ‘match my skin colour’. That day, I cried for hours.”
“I was hospitalized; the next 3 weeks were a blur of treatments. Dad would feed me breakfast every morning before work and say, ‘Just one more day!’, while mom spent the rest of the day with me.”
When Swati Raval was asked to pilot a flight in order to rescue stranded passengers from India, she could only think about the safety of her children. Returning from the flight, she couldn’t hug her children as she has to maintain social distancing norms at home.
Manashri Soman’s parents were told that she would never be able to walk or talk along with the visual impairment which was congenital in her. But, in contrast to being labelled as not being ‘normal’, she went to school, college and became a financially-independent person.
Maitri Shah was always questioned about her abilities and the people around her were bothered so as how would she accomplish things because of her disability. However, her determination to keep going ahead in life made her change things around and she has kept her hustle going.
Heena Mandavia started ‘Harsh Thali and Parathas’ as a mere means of survival in Mumbai. Later, her son Harsh Madavia took over the responsibility and the business. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the mother-son duo has been feeding the poor and the destitute and have served more than 11,000 meals.
