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.
Priya Varadarajan, founder of Durga, is using theatre, panic alarms and 15,000 trained bystanders to prove that safety in public spaces is not a woman’s burden to carry alone.
Akhila Somanath co-founded Tech4Good Community to bridge the technology gap for India’s nonprofits and built a movement rooted in open source, community and the belief that people always come before product.
How Jatin Lalit Singh turned a pandemic detour into a free, 24-hour community library that now serves 6,000 members across eight villages in Uttar Pradesh, and why he believes it should never have been left to him alone.
Vimal Jat grew up as the first in his family to go to school in a village with no electricity; today he runs Synergy Sansthan, an organisation that has directly impacted over one lakh young people across Madhya Pradesh.
