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Forced to leave their villages in search of a better life, migrant families in Bengaluru’s slums often struggle to educate their children. Proud Indian, an NGO, is bridging this gap with innovative education initiatives and art programmes that empower kids to dream beyond survival.

Studying in a one-room-kitchen house in a crowded Mumbai slum, Khan Rushda Praveen narrates her story of how she overcame the odds to now pursue her MBBS degree. She hopes to some day become a neurologist.

The temperatures in Delhi are clocking an all-time low, with December witnessing the coldest spell in 119 years.

"The vulnerability of the location and weak construction of the self-engineered shanties leaves thousands defenseless during monsoons. Government intervention has been minimal and these people don’t know how to protect themselves. I wanted to change that!” #Innovation #ImpactThatMatters #Mumbai

The founder of Ek Sangharsh, a non-profit organisation, Bahl has engaged in humanitarian initiatives that focus on the betterment of poor and deprived communities, for several years now.

Immanuel Pathare is a second year BCom student at Fatima Degree College in the city, who was visibly shaken when few people in his locality passed away due to dengue a year back.

Via her initiative, Rouble aims to improve the living conditions of those living in slums.

Sunlight rarely enters the small, cramped rooms in slums.

In just five years, the Robin Raina Foundation has adopted over 3,500 underprivileged children, is running multiple schools across the country, an orphan home in Mumbai, medical ambulances in Delhi, a cancer hospital ward in Pakistan and is building over 6000 concrete homes free of cost for the slum dwellers of Bawana in Delhi!

SNEHA uses a gender-transformative and participatory approach in engaging with adolescents. Shamolie Oberoi narrates a story of how it put a stop to an underage child wedding.