Sandeep Rai, founder of The Circle India, left a career in medicine to spend two decades building a movement that incubates local entrepreneurs to create high-quality schools for children from India’s most underserved communities.
Anusha Bharadwaj, founder of VOICE 4 Girls, has spent two decades building safe spaces where marginalized adolescent girls across India can question the rules written for them before they were old enough to read.
How Ravi Dhanuka, Aditya Tyagi, Shravan Kumar Jha, and Ranita Uppal built i-Saksham, a peer-led movement across five districts of Bihar that transforms young rural women into community change leaders by shifting the beliefs, relationships, and power dynamics that hold them back.
Vikas Gambhir, development sector advisor and SVP India partner, shares how two decades of work taught him that lasting grassroots impact begins with building strong institutions, not just funding programmes.
Guruprakash Sekar spent a decade watching India’s grassroots NGOs collapse under invisible system gaps, compliance overload, and digital isolation before he built People4Good, an organisation designed from the ground up to give nonprofits the technology, trust, and internal capacity they have always needed but never had.
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.
