'Haqdarshak' appoints local women in villages who go door-to-door and help people apply for government schemes that cover areas like education, housing, health, employment, small businesses and the recently included COVID-19 related benefits.
"Every expert we met discouraged us to take up this mission. No one believed that we could revive such a wasteland through organic methods. But, we made the impossible eventually possible."
Despite his illustrious life, his simplicity is what earned him ever-increasing respect among people of Odisha, as well as India. Though his life came to an end on May 29, 2010, his spirit and unwavering pulse to help common people, has truly immortalised him forever!
"The parents didn't take them seriously. But the kids kept working at it, under the guidance of village elders and their grandparents. And soon, they had rediscovered forgotten farming techniques - something their parents could never have imagined!"
The 61-year-old opened her doors to orphaned children and distressed women in 2007 after an incident that changed both Annie and her husband’s life, forever.