Invisible Everyday Heroes

Apart from helping them find new jobs, Pragya Singh also finances their medical costs and critical reconstructive surgeries such as skin grafting. #Respect #RealLifeHeroine

“In the past 25 years, I have ferried about 11,300 bodies to Ludhiana civil hospital’s mortuary on my rickshaw.”

Whether it is on a bus stand, amidst unmovable traffic, at religious gatherings, in local trains, slums, schools, colleges or hideouts for couples across the city, the man says that he is his own speaker and mic, spreading awareness about TB prevention and coughing etiquettes to all around him.

Even as the grief of losing their son was tearing them apart, Dadarao decided to do something nobody expected. Armed with broken paver blocks, gravel, stones and shovel, he started filling every pothole he witnessed within one month of Prakash’s passing.

She wanted to make sure the workers were saved.

Annapoorna Charitable Trust is indeed a lifeline for dialysis patients in Kannur, who provide free daily transportation to 16 critical patients to the facility and back.

Amidst all the critical and limelight-grabbing accomplishments, instances of ordinary people joining hands to save someone’s life or help them find their way back home, hardly ever make it to the newsfeed or receive any acknowledgement.

Ian Grillot risked his life in an attempt to thwart a hate-crime.

It is the story of how a Chennai World bank employee and parent to a Grade 2 student, shelled money out of his own pocket to facelift the government-run primary school in Mugalivakkam.

Ashok started the Aikya Foundation in 2006, a community outreach program that trains Mumbai’s disadvantaged young people to become electricians.