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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.

Coimbatore-based Prabhu and Brindha started TABP Snacks and Beverages that sells sodas and snacks to marginalised communities in a variety of flavours across Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Telangana.

Rohit Kumar Yadav, a Government Railway Police (GRP) constable who's running a school for the poor in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh for the past two years, says he gets to live out his "father's dream".

'Haqdarshak' appoints local women in villages who go door-to-door and help people apply for government schemes that cover areas like education, housing, health, employment, small businesses and the recently included COVID-19 related benefits.

Project Mumbai has so far converted plastic waste into 150 benches. This time they are offering to donate one kg of grocery for every kg of plastic waste you donate.

But besides his everyday journeys as a taxi driver, Reji has been taking time off to help the underprivileged in the Travancore area for the past 25 years.

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With winter almost setting in and temperatures dropping, the drive undertaken by Bengaluru citizens can be replicated across the country to ensure children, women, elderly do not fall sick from extreme cold.

"We found vagrant kids working in fishing factories, scrap yards, chai shops, shoe polish stalls and even as domestic help or ragpickers. We brought them together and sat them in a class."