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Discover how ex-scientist Kamini Singh used her research to build Doctor Moringa Pvt Ltd, creating 22 moringa products and transforming incomes of rural farmers across UP.

Aman Kumar at Nutty Village in Unnao is helping improve the lives of peanut farmers by providing them with the resources, market access, and fair prices they need to overcome agricultural challenges.

Sameera Jalan, a 16-year-old from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, founded PinThread, an initiative that teaches rural women and children of domestic help how to convert waste fabric into useful items like laptop covers, pencil cases and more.

“Today, women from all backgrounds and other villages, including those who have B.Ed degrees or more, come to us to join our work.”

"Our oldest lamp, which continues to work, is eight years old. We have bought over 1000 of their solar products,” says a customer.

By attracting over 10,000 guests, 'NotOnMap' has prevented the migration of at least 70 people from these remote communities!

SHRI’s sanitation units have toilets which are free for users and the facilities can purify about 1000 litres in an hour! The villagers are being supplied this water at 50 paise per litre!

ONergy was founded in 2010 and since then, they have installed power plants with the capacity of 15MW, installed 5700 street lights and 756 solar water pumps.

Today, Subicsha supplies their products to over 2000 small and big stores across Kerala. They are also supporting women from at least 588 SHGs!

"I ate these amazing jackfruit bars at a chai ki tapri (tea shop). Made by a local SHG, they contained no preservatives and tasted heavenly. It immediately occurred to me as to why are these products not available in urban markets,” says Vinay about his eureka moment. #Startups #EatHealthy