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Dr. Avinash Pol, a dental surgeon from Maharashtra, guided the residents of more than 70 villages in the state to help revive water bodies and learn about beneficial government schemes. He also helped them with sanitation work.

A simple device is helping students in rural Maharashtra access interesting multimedia content like their urban and semi-urban peers. It runs on solar energy and does not require any prior knowledge about computers. This is how it works.

The villagers of Madhya Pradesh have started digging new ponds and desiliting old ones which are spread across 200 villages.

Fate wasn't kind to Karishma and her sister when they were young. But not only did she fight to get both of them an education, she now leads efforts to empower other adolescent girls.

A dentist, Dr. Ankita Chandra, holds dental camps every weekend in rural India to improve the geriatric medical and oral health in the country for free.

Most women, who have a fibre sheet at home, have got into the routine of finishing all their cooking and other kitchen work during day, making best use of the ‘free’ light.

The project first started a decade ago in Tembhurni village in Himayatnagar Taluk.

In remote villages near Delhi, ambulances often fail to reach on time. But the policemen in those areas are now making sure no family faces a health risk due to the unavailability of vehicles. This is how two policemen acted as midwives and saved two lives.

Meet the women who strongly believe that there is a spirit of ownership among villagers that can be tapped into by someone within their own community. And to honour this belief, they walk for miles each day to inform and educate people about sanitation and water issues. These are the wonderful Water and Sanitation Promoters of rural Tamil Nadu.