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.
Through Rozgar Dhaba, Neelam Pandey Pathak is helping rural youth and women access verified jobs, digital work and economic opportunities across India.
After nearly two decades in global finance, Ambuj Kumar returned to India to lead SVP India, championing engaged philanthropy that goes beyond monetary donations to offer skills, time and genuine human connection to grassroots organisations.
Kalki Subramaniam, founder of Sahodari Foundation, has spent over 16 years using art, literature, livelihood projects, and courtroom advocacy to build a life of dignity for India’s transgender community, one story at a time.
Bidisha Mahanta, Executive Director of Zubaan, on why documenting ordinary lives, from unpaid farm labor to confiscated phones, is the most radical thing a movement can do.
