Changemaker India

A Bengaluru resident’s simple rainwater harvesting system is helping apartment complexes cut up to Rs 1 lakh in monthly water tanker bills, recharge groundwater, and inspire over 200 communities to adopt sustainable water solutions.

After 37 years in the Indian Army, Major General Ashim Kohli found a new way to serve. By recycling retired army uniforms into school bags for underprivileged children, he’s ensuring the uniforms’ duty never truly ends.

In 2008, Ravi founded the Earth Saviours Foundation and would personally go out into the streets to find disabled and destitute people — bringing them into the foundation’s shelter home, and serving them around the clock.