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Nakshatra launched the Nammane Summane, an NGO that houses 65 underprivileged persons in the Gangondanahalli area of Bengaluru

Jayati Sinha, a San Francisco-based designer, has come up with a potential solution called Pop Hut, an an easily transportable, foldable and flat packed housing concept.

Anumuthu's childhood was marred with poverty and struggle as a child labourer after he lost his father at only 7. Learning from his own experiences, today he provides dignity and care in the form jobs, medical attention, food and clothes to the homeless through his NGO Snehan.

Dr Rajendra and Dr Sucheta Dhamane started Mauli Seva Pratishthan in Ahmednagar to rescue women abandoned by their families for  mental illnesses. Their centre is now a safe haven for over 300 women

Ashish Thakur, a banker from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, has dedicated half of his life to burying and cremating the abandoned dead with dignity and respect through his NGO Moksha. He talks about how he maintains hope in such a grueling line of work and the lessons he has learnt.

As the destitute across India struggled to get basic food and health services amid the COVID-19 pandemic, IAS officer S Seeram Sambasiva Rao provided homes, skill training and jobs to 1500 of them.

MyVacc, launched by Bengaluru's Dr Sveta Agarwal holds camps throughout the city, as well as in Pune and Mumbai, to provide free of cost COVID-19 vaccination to members of the unorganised sector such as slum dwellers, daily wagers, cab drivers, the homeless, and more.

Commonly known as ‘Aunty’s stall’ among the needy, Sarita Kashyap uses a major part of her daily income to feed the underprivileged.

"The needy and poor should not come to us begging. As everyone’s responsibility, we must introduce a mechanism where they can access food for free.”

The citizen-led group has distributed more than 1,200 blankets to the homeless in the last four years