ragpickers

Naman and Vipul Gupta's Code Effort Private Limited is transforming cigarette butts into eco-friendly products using V bins and an innovative recycling process. Their venture is also creating sustainable livelihoods for ragpickers and artisans, empowering communities along the way.

Did you know it takes 30 PET bottles to make a chic blazer? K Sankar, and his son, Senthil, are helping recycle over 15 lakh PET bottles and turning them into fashionable clothes.

RaddiConnect not only picks up clean recyclable trash from your doorstep free of cost but ensures it is sent to the right recyclers. The biggest impact is that the money you get in exchange for this recyclable waste can be donated to four diverse city-based NGOs.

Torrential rains have left waste pickers in Mumbai rummaging through garbage in ankle-deep water. And 15-year-old Sanjana's simple gesture is stopping them from being exposed to severe health risks. You are our hero, Sanjana!

Today, Sakshi is a social entrepreneur and co-founder of Bucket List, a city-based NGO that has impacted the lives of more than 2000 kids in the last three years.

A whiteboard, markers, and a duster for the teachers and a carpet laid on the ground for them to sit on, 15 such study centres across Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and recently, Rajasthan, are providing free-of-cost education for slum and street kids since 2013.

In fact, their efforts were instrumental in rescuing a teenage girl who was smuggled to India, married off at the age of 10, and gang-raped by the man and his brothers.

The students run around 12 batches, and teach some 500 children from bastis around the campus.

For over ten years, 53-year-old Yatin Naik has been dedicatedly foraging through the station area and railway tracks of Andheri, to collect abandoned wallets by pickpockets after procuring the cash.

Finally, some recognition for the incredibly hardworking ragpickers.