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Heet Doshi and Om Thakkar, college students from Ahmedabad, founded ‘Your Reading Circle’ to promote the concept of reading among youngsters. Their free mini-libraries in public parks are improving reading culture by offering free access to books and creating community hubs for book lovers across the city.

Home to more than 20 per cent of the planet's entire biodiversity, islands are our key to survival and yet they continue to be exploited and degraded. Island Conservation, a global non-profit organisation, is working to change this reality.

“However, it was only when I went abroad that its benefits dawned upon me. Perhaps going far away was what made me realise its potential.”

Thanks to 1M1B's Future Leaders initiative, 14 Indian school children will present their work in the hallowed portals of the UN headquarters in New York on March 19.