Aditi Patwardhan

Gopal Jee has invented an eco-friendly means of producing electricity from banana stems, while Shalini Kumari has ideated a walker that also helps people climb stairs.

ResQ Charitable Trust in Pune rescues and treats injured and sick animals and birds, including dogs, cats, rabbits, pigs, elephants, cows and monkeys from across the city.

An active community spread across Mumbai and Bengaluru, The Circle functions as a support group for youngsters to share their stories of abuse, embarrassment and trauma without facing judgement, moral policing or stigma.

Developed by a Consultant from Gujarat, SpeakUp offers a platform for users to communicate their feedback to private organisations as well as government authorities.

The Queer Question aims at demystifying the LGBTQA+ community and initiating a queer-inclusive dialogue in society.

Uplabdhi Misha Chandola’s initiative Teach Girls is using the homeschooling methods to educate girls who have had to drop out of school in the Garhwal region.

Young changemakers across India are on a mission to offer holistic education to students of government schools through their Camp Diaries initiatives.

Sumedha Sah, a Mumbai-based architect and self-taught artist, is reviving the art of letter writing through her initiative The Snail Mail Project.

An innovator and social entrepreneur, Binish Desai designs technologies to recycle industrial waste. With his patented P-blocks made from paper industry’s waste, he is building toilets in rural Gujarat.

Hirin Dave, an Ahmedabad-based web developer, collects old toys and redistributes these among underprivileged children through her initiative.