Suraj Moraje co-founded The Eka Fellowship to provide underserved students in Bangalore and Pune with the long-term, personalised support that determines whether talent translates into opportunity.
From growing up in a tent beside a bridge in Mumbai to leading a grassroots movement that has transformed thousands of lives, Deepa Pawar’s journey is a powerful example of how resilience, education, and community leadership can create lasting social change.
Founder of SP Seva Sansthan Foundation, Jigar Vaishnav, on how listening first, breaking silence around women’s health and choosing dignity over charity has driven lasting grassroots change across underserved communities in India.
Saket Sambhav founded The Better Human™ Life Foundation to tackle the trust deficit in the social sector, creating one of India’s few Zero-Leakage models that combines environmental action with transparency, accountability, and measurable impact.
After overcoming financial hardship and personal loss, Vikash Kumar built Sankalp Siksha to provide quality education, skill development, and technology exposure to rural students in Kushinagar.
After overcoming poverty, educational barriers, and exclusion, Satyendra Kumar founded initiatives helping first-generation learners access education, leadership opportunities, and pathways to social change.
Shreya Ghosh, Head of Asia Engagement at Girls Not Brides, makes the case that child marriage is a systemic failure rooted in poverty, inequality, and exclusion, and that ending it requires every actor in the ecosystem to work together.
Dinesh Gautam founded Drishti Foundation Trust in 2012 to close the gap between environmental policy and ground-level action, building a model where communities become long-term custodians of their own natural resources.
From community learning centres on temple steps to policy advocacy and youth fellowships, Chandan Singh’s Pratigya is helping children, families, and communities in Jharkhand build confidence, leadership, and access to meaningful education.
Arun Daniel Yellamaty Kumar started by feeding Hyderabad’s homeless with twenty cream buns, and never stopped asking what more he could do, until Youngistaan Foundation became a 70,000-volunteer organisation.
