Bihar

Honoured with the Free The Slaves 2016 award, Samarthan is setting the standard for successful and sustainable anti-slavery initiatives through its innovation, hard work and dedication to fight bonded labour in the most marginalised of Indian villages.

Nishant Tiwary, the Superintendent of Police of Purnea, Bihar has founded a school for the children of migrant workers in the region.

A daily-wage worker from Meerut searched for his missing wife on a rickety cycle for a long period of eight months and eventually found her.

Sixty-year-old peon of CCL township, Jharkhand, Sumitra Devi’s retirement day celebration was attended by her IAS, doctor and engineer sons.

Shivangi went from selling newspapers in Kanpur to studying at IIT Roorkee after she joined Anand Kumar's successful Super 30 coaching centre.

Prakash Academy runs after-school programmes in Bihar to make sure that children from the villages can access the same resources as their urban counterparts

Feeling upset and humiliated at having to regularly defecate in the open, six school girls from Bihar have renounced wearing gold jewellery until their parents build toilets in their homes.

Champaran Satyagraha was the movement responsible for putting Gandhi on the front seat of Indian nationalist movement and making satyagraha a powerful tool of civilian resistance.

Raquel Mason is a Spanish woman who has made India her home for the past ten years so she can educate and empower Dalit children, senior citizens and women.

Tanju Devi is proof that a single individual's unwavering determination can result in change for an entire community.