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Bhimrao Patil from Sajani village of Kolhapur couldn’t complete his education, but has more than a quarter million hours of experience in mechanical engineering which helped him battle poverty.

“We are not the waking up at the crack-of-dawn sort of people. Unless of course, we have vegetables to send out or have elephants visiting the farm, in which case we pretty much stay up the entire night.”

"Do you know anything about how rural women manage when they are on their periods?"

The introduction of pipe water supply to households and safe sanitation practices in the tribal dominated district of Dindori, Madhya Pradesh is changing lives drastically.

The people of Nath Panthi Davari Gosavi community have been categorized as nomadic tribes since members of the community are constantly migrating.

Mangaal Rural, a social enterprise, was looking for a small village on the outskirts of Imphal that could be a model for future computer literacy programmes in the state. The project’s success can be largely attributed to the co-operation and support from the residents of Nungthaang Tampak.

From hereon, girls from this UP village won't be married off to families that have not constructed a toilet at home.

Over the last four years, Jitendra Mane, a 32 year old teacher from a village called Tilwani in Kolhapur, has been inspiring kids despite suffering from a severe form of arthritis.

After a month-long treatment by the doctor at his own hospital, the man successfully came out of his coma.

The youth of today has the potential to work together with government and private organizations and bring about a larger change.