Empowerment

The theme this year focused on ‘Schools as a supportive environment for children’.

Pabiben’s story is a testimony to how setting a goal and working hard to attain it can make the biggest difference, not only to one’s own life but to the lives of an entire community.

Accenture supports TRRAIN’S PANKH project which aims to train people with disabilities and provide them with employment opportunities in the retail industry.

Equipped with a tablet each, these Digital Sakhis confidently ensure door-to-door dissemination of information—from daily transactions using digital modes of payments to updates about government policies and schemes—across their demarcated villages on a regular basis.

It was perhaps a chance encounter with the team of ICICI Academy for Skills (IAS) that changed the course of Dilbagh’s life.

Since its inception in 1997, Srinivasan Services Trust’s presence has been central in aiding rural communities in areas ranging from economic development and infrastructure to healthcare and education.

The quality of food cooked at home has also improved with women maintaining kitchen gardens, where those who didn’t have land, grew vegetables in the farmlands.

Maya Health is giving women an opportunity to become entrepreneurs and improve the health of their communities while also providing an essential service to residents.

Today, the Delhi-based gay activist and professional puppeteer uses the living and interactive medium to open conversations about bold and taboo topics for the masses.

The inhumane scourge of manual scavenging still exists in India despite being outlawed. In fact, surveys report a four-fold increase from the official count in 2017!