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Nitesh Mukane, who works at Aroehan NGO, details how they have helped tribal villagers in Maharashtra by solving their water crisis, improving health among women and children and increasing farm income.

After retirement, NRI Syed Hussaini launched his foundation, SEED USA, to provide education, healthcare, and employment to underprivileged Indians back home.

A personal tragedy made Sumitra Gargai, a woman of Jharkhand's Ho tribe, work with Ekjut, civil society organisation to fight taboos around mental illnesses and depression in rural India

From water scarcity, forests to coronavirus, the Joshi family from Bhilwara, Rajasthan, give a contemporary spin to Phad paintings that originated centuries ago.

Abhinav Agarwal and Megha Joshi launched their startup Mittihub last year to connect artisans from Rajasthan, Delhi, Agra and Haryana to sell their handmade terracotta ware without the burden of middlemen, helping them increase their income by 40%.

Hyderabad-based M S Raju's unique technique to turn Alkaline land fertile through changing pH levels has benefited many farmers in South India.

Tripti Gaikwad, a Nashik-based advocate, runs the Sampurnam Seva Foundation, which collects idols and photo frames to recycle them into toys for underprivileged children and bird houses.

Hansu Pardiwala, Kunti Oza and Chitra Hiremath of Mumbai started The Milk Bag Project in 2019, through which they collect empty milk packets and give them for recycling. The idea was inspired by a viral social media post.

Innovate Green Technologies Private Limited, an Ahmedabad based start-up by Hardik Shah is bringing back the circular economy through its initiatives and subsidiary — Recycle.Green.

Mohammad Sajid Hussain is a scientist and educator from Jharkhand, who quit his high-flying job to return to his native village and start Schoolasium, a learning centre that employs a different learning model to teach underprivileged students across the state