Access Life’s free stay centres across 10+ Indian cities ensure that no child has to abandon cancer treatment because their family had nowhere to sleep, eat or rest.
Ankit Bihari, co-founder of Dreams Peace Foundation, is using street theatre, a short film, and an all-India bike ride to dismantle generations of myth and shame around menstrual health in India’s most underserved communities.
Shikha Agnihotri, founder of the National Council for School Safety, is building the systems, training the people, and shifting the mindset that Indian schools need to protect every child on campus.
The journey of a commerce graduate who dedicated a decade to advancing education, livelihoods, and disability inclusion across India.
Dr. Neelam Gupta, founder and CEO of AROH Foundation, turned a defining childhood encounter with poverty into a 25-year movement that has brought education, livelihood, clean water, and dignity to marginalised communities across 27 states in India.
From a saline lake in Rajasthan to 2,600 villages across India’s drylands, Om Prakash Sharma has spent 36 years proving that lasting water solutions begin not with technology but with trust.
Gaurav Shah left a successful corporate career to co-found ISDM and lead ARMMAN, a non-profit reaching women across India through stronger public health systems.
From millets to Panchayats, Neeraja Kudrimoti’s fifteen-year journey with Transform Rural India shows how women-led, community-owned climate action is quietly rewriting rural India’s future.
Aanya Wig is using Her Haq to bring menstrual health, public policy, and gender justice to young people who have never been part of these conversations before.
For over three decades, Poonam Muttreja has worked to shift India’s population and public health conversation away from coercive control and toward women’s informed choice, community agency, and evidence-based policy, one village, one story, and one norm at a time.
