changemaker

‘SBI Youth for India Fellowship’, an initiative of SBI Foundation provides a platform to the urban youth to participate in Rural Development with their innovative ideas to address the rural struggles and also benefit from the learnings through on-ground experience.

We call these men and women heroes, but they could just as easily be called warriors protecting planet Earth, a planet that is facing some of the biggest environmental threats it has ever confronted. #TBIChangemakers2019 #EarthHeroes

What is the secret of her success? She answers, “Main dil se kaam karti hoon. I work from the heart.”

It’s been 30 years since Dr Rani Bang and her husband, Dr Abhay Bang, dedicated their lives to the social and educational upliftment of the lowest of the low, in Maharashtra’s tribal district of Gadchiroli.

He spent a year and a half travelling all over the country, studying the work of voluntary agencies and formulating his plans.

Building a global network of women who support, encourage and collaborate with one another to create positive change!

Mumbai-based Haresh Mehta’s Paper Shaper, a corrugated cardboard manufacturing firm, is helping people do so by offering an alternate sustainable solution to wooden, metal and plastic furniture.

Not only is he revamping the slums by building toilets, he’s also making sure they are maintained well.

Stories have the power to uncover the social nature of a certain problem and can then formulate actions to solve those problems.

A firm believer that education is the only way to empowerment, Aarti Naik has been running educational capacity-building classes for slum girls since 2008.