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Reema Sathe founded Happy Roots, a food company that manufactures healthy, and preservative-free snack food using local ingredients, with raw material sourced from small and tribal farmers.

Social apps are a great way to connect with friends, but it's easy to forget that they are also extremely powerful communication tools. Here are a few inspiring real-life exmples where Indians came together on WhatsApp to reach out to those who need help.

Physicians working in the remote and hilly areas of Himachal Pradesh are using WhatsApp in a unique way to communicate the status of a patient’s illness and get advice from specialists who are sitting several miles away.

Just a week ago, we shared the story of Vithoba of a Maharashtra village, who tilled his land with a cot because he could not afford a plough and a pair of bulls. Within 5 days of us running this story, he could buy the bulls and pay off his debts! Here's what happened.

Recently we shared a story on How One Whatsapp Group of Farmers in Rural Maharashtra is Trying to Change Indian Agriculture for Good. When we shared the story, Baliraja was a Whatsapp group of 100 farmers who helped each other with the expertise they had. Read about all that has happened since the article was published.

For ages, they’ve been fighting a tough battle against a brutal ‘system’. But now, tech-savvy farmers of Maharashtra are sharing best practices, exploring new markets and building infrastructure, all through their phones. What's more, they are also planning to take their community’s voice to the government.