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The girls who emerge as leaders then engage their peers through social action projects, tackling issues such as child marriage, health education, and the rights of women. The girls design these projects with the goal of involving at least 100 community members, creating grassroots change.\n\nEighteen-year-old Akshara Sharma from Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, is set to take up her role as a Girl Icon in her village after she was selected as the unanimous holder of that position this year. \n\nDespite poverty, Sharma’s family always supported her to complete her education, and even shifted her to an English-medium school 15 km from their house for Classes 10-12 so that she could continue learning in English. quality education. \n\nSharma, who is now preparing for NEET, says the local ASHA workers, and at times, even her mother, accompanies her to convince families to send their girls to school.\n\n“The new English medium school I enrolled in from Classes 10-12, was very disapproving of someone like me joining them, as they felt that my rural background and class status would affect their reputation,” says Sharma. \n\n“I proved how the will to learn transcends all these boundaries by emerging school first in my Class 12 public exams. It made me feel that for every other girl in my village, their potential just needed to be tapped,” she adds.. \n\nThe Girl Icon programme’s peer-led model ensures that knowledge spreads organically, creating a network of empowered girls advocating for education, health, and equality.\n\nOne Girl Icon, for instance, successfully negotiated with local authorities to introduce a school bus service for her village, significantly increasing attendance. Another raised awareness about child marriage through street plays, directly influencing community attitudes.\n"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"20:T54a,"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Since its inception, the Girl Icon programme alone has reached over 60,000 girls, with participants across Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Karnataka. Graduates of the programme frequently become advocates within their communities, creating a ripple effect. \n\n“Our girls have not only delayed marriages, but also inspired others to pursue education and challenge gender stereotypes,” says Misra.\n\nThe team also eventually involves male figures in the family, including fathers and brothers, in the dialogue process to make these changes sustainable for the girls by garnering support from their families and changing their mindsets.\n\nWhen 23-year-old Preeti from Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh became a Girl Icon with Milaan and had to leave to Lucknow as a 17-year-old for training, her father stood against this decision. It was only the second time around when another training came up In Banaras that her father agreed to let her go, after getting in touch with and having detailed conversations with the Milaan team.\n\n“In our village, people get easily influenced by what others around them do. 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Designed to foster an inclusive environment, Unmukt trains adolescents to make informed decisions and challenge societal norms.\n\n“We work with our 3,600 boys and girls in each cohort in this programme, which is supported by the Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies and other organisations who fund our work regularly,” says Misra. \n\n“This programme has an element of sports, but there’s also a life skills training to equip our children and youth to be able to make informed decisions on matters that impact their lives,” she adds.\n\nMishra notes that community buy-in has been critical. “By involving parents and conducting awareness sessions with men and boys, we create a more enabling environment for change,” she says.\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated vulnerabilities for many girls. Milaan’s response included providing resources to affected families and leveraging its Girl Icon network to identify community needs. The foundation also introduced scholarships for job-oriented courses in fields like nursing and law, encouraging girls to pursue higher education.\n\nMisra acknowledges that while they have made progress, the pandemic set back their efforts to create gender equality by decades, with much of their work now focussed on regaining this lost ground.\n\n“Since most of our girls did not have smartphones and laptops, our teachers visited their homes during the pandemic to ensure they were not married off and continued learning where they left. We have also tied up with primary health centres to offer routine medical checkups for our girls at Swarachana and have an in-house counsellor to address their mental health challenges,” says Javed Abbas, Associate Director of Programmes. \n\nThe foundation plans to expand its programmes, aiming to reach 100,000 girls within the next five years.\nMilaan is also refining its strategies by concentrating efforts in fewer districts for deeper impact. 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Sundaram says that despite an extensive search, she never found one that said they would support her fully, and so she gave up on filing a case against her abuser. \n\nDealing with these experiences and emotions led her to start the Neeti Project, which was later registered as the Imaara Survivor Support Foundation in 2023, an NGO working towards preventing and ultimately ending sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in the Indian context. \n\nIt prioritises survivor-oriented remedial approaches and also highlights the significance of bystander intervention and support. \n\nSundaram was born in Canada, and moved back to India with her family when she was eight years old because her parents wanted their daughters to grow up amidst Indian culture and engage in various art forms. 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Seeking to escape and take legal action, she lacked the financial means to do so. \n\n“After offering her psychological first aid and explaining the services we provide, I connected her with a nearby one stop centre based on her location, a resource that could offer her the comprehensive, pro bono support she urgently needed,” she elaborates.\n \nIn another instance, she was contacted by a human trafficking survivor in Africa through the World Pulse platform. She shared her day-to-day ordeal of being targeted by a trafficking ring. A human trafficking survivor who had been in captivity for years previously, she had managed to escape her circumstances with her two children and had sought safety. Since her escape, she became an advocate for other survivors, but her activism brought renewed threats to her and her family. \n\n“In collaboration with Pallabi Ghosh, founder of the Impact and Dialogue Foundation, we successfully relocated the survivor and her children within a month. However, as refugees, they faced new challenges like securing food, shelter, and financial support in their new country. Through global networking with anti-trafficking advocates and ongoing calls to ensure her safety, we were able to provide essential resources to help stabilise her and her family within a few weeks,” Sundaram says.\n\nShe admits it has been extremely difficult to raise funds, as the first three years are a trying time for any NGO. She runs Imaara with small amounts contributed by her family and friends. The plan is to collaborate with established NGOs to achieve more and continue working towards the goal of ending gender-based violence.\n\n“The bigger idea to scale is create an app for survivors where they can access the database with just a click. We are also excited to start creating modules and research on making service providers more trauma-informed and survivor-centric. 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She wears a delirious smile, talks to herself, and loves telling stories about friendship between animals, birds, and wronged women finding freedom.\n\nGopi belongs to the community of Siddis—a distinct ethnic group with African ancestry. \n\nIt’s been 35 years since her husband left her for another woman. But Gopi doesn’t let this bother her. Her will of steel is what helps her fight for what’s hers—whether it is getting her farmland of arecanuts from encroachers or putting up a fight to get her book of stories self-published. \n\nIn fact, Gopi had even pawned her jewellery and borrowed money from the people she worked for to get her book published. \n\n“Gopi is strong-headed, free-spirited and unfazed. Her no-holds-barred personality has earned her the reputation of being a maverick by those who find her too strong and overbearing. But it is her struggles in life that have made her who she is: a vibrant teller of stories of pain, wisdom and resilience,” says Savita Uday, Founder of BuDa Folklore, an NGO in Angadibail in Uttara Kannada, Karnataka, which is dedicated to conserving, educating and promoting the indigenous culture and folklore of the region.\n\nUday encountered Gopi 10 years ago when she was looking for someone to work at her home.\n\n“She is a treasure trove of stories—of grief, freedom, and ecology. They are stories she had grown up listening to, from her mother and grandmother, and she wanted to narrate them to people she met,” says Uday.\n\nIn many ways, her storytelling is an act of reclaiming her voice and place in society, says Nishanth Gurumurthy, a filmmaker from Bengaluru who has made a documentary on Gopi. \n\nThe community Gopi belongs to—the Siddis—have lived in India for centuries, concentrated in the states of Karnataka and Maharashtra, forming a vital part of the country’s cultural mosaic. The Siddi population in India is estimated at 20,000–50,000, with a significant number residing in Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada, Dharwad, and Belagavi districts. \n\nThe "])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"26:T7f8,"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Reports show that Siddis face poverty, limited access to education, healthcare, and stable employment. They also face an identity crisis, as their African physical features make them susceptible to social discrimination and stereotyping, often resulting in their exclusion from mainstream Indian society. \n\nAs many of them depend on forest resources, the Siddhis also have to deal with forest rights and livelihood issues, and bureaucratic barriers that hinder their access to land and rights under the Forest Rights Act. Despite being granted scheduled tribe status in Karnataka in 2003, the community’s space and voice in policy-making remain negligible. \n\nIn many ways, these challenges have brought out the storyteller in Gopi, says Gurumurthy. \n\n“Do I belong to the home that I was born into, or the home that I was married into, or to the forests that I have protected all my life? Where is my home?” Gopi asks in the film, giving viewers a glimpse into the segregation and displacement her community has faced historically. \n\nShe talks about how speaking her mind has often earned her the ire of society, adding to the discrimination against her community that is already prevalent. \n\nGopi recalls how as a child, when she went into town, people would called her “African” or “Negro”, and she would run back home to her grandmother and ask her why they did that. She would tell Gopi that their ancestors were of African origin and brought as slaves to this land in a ship. \n\n“She wasn’t sure herself, because she was born here as well. The migration happened a few generations before her,” says Gopi. \n\nLike many of her community members, Gopi has a photograph of Barack Obama in a folderfile. \n\nThe Siddis draw inspiration and pride from their perceived connection to Barack Obama—a connection that stems from their shared African ancestry and the symbolic resonance with Obama’s rise to power. 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She also touches upon the different kinds of ants in the region, each distinguished by unique appearances and characteristics.\n\nBuDa Folklore takes these stories to the children of local government schools to strengthen their connection to their land, heritage, and generational wisdom. The NGO also works with urban schoolchildren across the country to instill curiosity and wonder in them about dying traditions, folklore and cultural practices.\n\n“Sometimes it is mystifying to see how the city children, despite language barriers, grow so fond of me. When it’s time to go home, they embrace me affectionately and say their goodbyes. I let them go with a heavy heart. 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The idea of home has never been settled for me,” she adds.\n\nWhile technically, Assam is home for Dutta, it also symbolised a place that came with a lot of trauma. These circumstances propelled her to think of the reasons beyond the evident harm that was committed by someone to explore how and why the harm manifested in society and the structural causes behind it.\n\n“The obvious answers were poverty and the under-resourced, conflict fatigued society of Assam, that struggled with unemployment and chronic mental distress,” she says. “A lot of people who get involved in narcotic crimes, for instance,are people who come from very vulnerable communities, having no money for basic survival, and get incarcerated for becoming carriers. The law on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) being so strict, they are not even entitled to bail,” says Dutta. \n\nThese problems that stem from the unique sociopolitical challenges of Assam naturally propelled the Studio Nilima her team to listen to incarcerated people and their families, and understand what they needed.\n\nFounded on the principles of empathy and intersectionality, Studio Nilima’s work intersects the realms of law, history, and community engagement, creating a space where meaningful discourse and actionable change meet.\n"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"2a:T7ef,"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"woman imprisoned for carrying narcotics, an act driven by the desperation of providing for her children. These stories illustrate that punitive action without understanding the root causes is a cycle doomed to repeat, a realisation that drives Studio Nilima’s focus on addressing the structures behind societal issues.\n\nStudio Nilima’s legal aid and awareness building programme Pratidhwani, has extended to prisons in 10 districts in Assam and reached out to 1,778 inmates.\n\nPratidhwani works to improve the already existing legal services mechanism that the State runs through its district legal services authorities. Studio Nilima’s team engages with the system to brainstorm trial strategies, defence strategies, getting in experts including outside lawyers, and also build capacity at the district level. \n\n“The basic level of intervention is providing effective representation . We do appeals ourselves. We have an in-house team in Guwahati. In the Supreme Court too, we have a dedicated network of lawyers with whom we interact on a daily basis, and pursue cases in the Supreme Court. \n\nIn addition, we also look at strategic litigation, for example, the fact that Mental Health Review Boards - which are actually the basic unit of the Mental Health Care Act - was not implemented in Assam for a very long time; we had to file a Public Interest Litigation, and got them running,” says Anubhab Atreya, litigation manager at Studio Nilima. \n\nStudio Nilima’s art-based programmes are also integral to its holistic approach to justice and community engagement in Assam. These initiatives are designed to explore and express the complex interplay between culture, identity, and justice through various art forms. \n\nThe organisation's projects often incorporate visual art, storytelling, and performance to create platforms for dialogue and healing. One significant outcome of these initiatives is the creation of a music album with poems written by residents and performed by musicians from across Assam.\n"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"2b:T89c,"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Assam, with its intricate fabric of ethnicities and historical conflicts, presents unique challenges to justice. Studio Nilima’s work underscores the importance of recognising the region’s multifaceted identity. “Assam is not just Guwahati; it is an amalgamation of various marginalised communities, each with its own stories and struggles,” says Dutta.\n\nThrough conflict mapping, Studio Nilima has revealed how different districts face distinct issues—whether it's narcotics trafficking or socio-economic marginalisation—emphasising that justice solutions must be tailored to these local realities.\n\nFor instance, in areas like the Rabha and Tiwa communities, whose struggles are seldom represented in mainstream narratives, Studio Nilima has brought attention to how deeply localised marginalisation intersects with broader state and national issues.\n\nDutta points out that the kind of individuals that they meet in Assam’s prison system are different from the mainland. She adds one may meet former dissidents who find themselves in the prisons, owing to the fact that there are cases still going on against them when they took up arms against the State. She also adds that certain prisons, designated as detention centres, were used to house individuals perceived as non-citizens. \n\n“As per the notification from the Government of Assam, prisons became detention centres for illegal migrants and boys from juvenile correctional homes - which is against the law,” she says. There are also instances where we interact with boys under the age of 18 who are often housed in the prisons for being in conflict with the law. \n\n“We can cannot even say that Guwahati prisons would be representative of Assam's prisons, because there are many districts like, for instance, in the remote areas like Hailakhandi, Diphu where the demographic mix and the needs of the residents would be very different from those in Guwahati, or in the Central Jails,” says Atreya.\n\n“It is more complex than the simple narrative that there is only overcrowding or only mental health issues. Yes, there are these issues, but there are so many nuances to these issues that get missed out,” says Atreya.\n"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"2c:T6fc,"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Despite its dedication, Studio Nilima’s efforts often encounter systemic challenges. The organisation has mapped out prisons and observed the stark differences between central and district jails in Assam. \n\nDistrict facilities frequently suffer from inadequate resources, making it challenging to maintain humane conditions for residents. “Many prisons are so under-resourced that even basic sanitation and medical needs remain unmet,” Dutta points out, adding that residents often face compounded and cumulative trauma due to their poor socioeconomic conditions.\n\nConversations with prison staff reveal a shared struggle. Underpaid and overworked, staff often form unexpected solidarities with residents, reflecting a shared sense of being overlooked by a system that prioritises punitive measures over reformative efforts.\n\nStudio Nilima’s projects also expose gaps in policy, particularly in how reforms are devised without consulting those most affected. “The prison system in Assam, as in many parts of India, operates under a hierarchical mindset,” Dutta observes. “For real change to happen, the system must embrace a consultative approach involving legal experts, social activists, including prison officials and the incarcerated community.”\n\nThrough public forums, discussions, and ongoing legal services, Studio Nilima seeks to bridge this gap. Their work, marked by collaboration and deep community involvement, is setting the stage for policies that reflect the complex reality of Assam’s justice landscape.\n\nStudio Nilima is working towards justice that is inclusive and empathetic, something Dutta believes will occur when the realms of law, history, and community engagement meet to create a space where meaningful discourse and actionable change meet.\n"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"2d:T4da,"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,", where they performed everywhere—be it a small cafe, homes, terraces, and offices among other spaces.\n\n“We would perform in living rooms that were 12 ft by 12 ft, we’d take a bit of space to perform and have as few as 10-15 or as many as 70-90 people as part of the audience. If people wouldn't go to the theatre, we were happy to take the theatre to them,” Ravindran explains.\n\nIn their first year, the collective managed more than 120 performances. These were not ticketed shows; the performances were free and open to all. Rather, they asked audiences to contribute what they could afford.\n\n“We believe everyone should have access to the arts, not just people who can pay for it because we wanted to build new audiences for performances. The idea was to make the arts an integral part of our lives; not something that was exclusive or alienating,” she adds.\n\nWithin a couple of months, for artists from across India who wanted to perform in Bengaluru, Sandbox was instrumental in showcasing their works across venues.\n\nEmphasising the importance of community art spaces, the duo also opened Studio 345 in January 2024 in Bengaluru, where it hosts workshops and events centred around language, gender, books, and literature. \n"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"2e:T652,"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"data:image/png;base64,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"])</script><style data-styled="" data-styled-version="5.3.11"></style><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"2f:T47a,"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1," corridors. It was introduced in 11 elephant corridors: five in Alipurduar division and six in Lumding division.\n\nWhenever an elephant steps onto the railway track, the AI-based system issues alerts to train controllers, station masters, drivers, and other relevant parties, prompting them to take immediate safety measures. \n\nThe technology uses optical fibre cables, which are laid beneath the tracks for telecommunications and signalling. Intrusion detection sensors within this optical fibre network sense the vibrations caused by an elephant’s movement on the track, sending real-time alerts to the control room. The system can detect elephants within 5 metres of the cable, thus aiding in collision prevention.\n\nAccording to Manoj Kumar, the divisional signal and telecommunication engineer at Lumding, on October 16, the optical fibre cables detected the movement of elephants on the tracks based on parameters such as sound, frequency, amplitude, speed and direction using AI (artificial intelligence), and alerted the pilots 80 metres ahead of the herd. 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Many work long hours or multiple jobs just to make ends meet, making it nearly impossible to attend Parent-Teacher Meetings (PTMs) or be involved in school activities. A mother from a government school in Bengaluru shares the reality faced by many families, \"I can’t go to school whenever they want me to. If I miss a day of work, we lose a day’s wage, and that makes a big difference for us.\"\n\nIn addition to time constraints, many parents have had negative personal experiences with schooling, often leaving them reluctant to engage with the education system. One father shared his frustration about feeling unwelcome and unheard during school visits, \"Every time I go to school, they tell me the same thing—that my child is doing poorly in studies. They’ve said this for years, but nothing has changed. What’s the point of going?\"\n\nThese challenges illustrate a broader issue: without trust and mutual understanding, schools and parents remain disconnected. 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Instead of accepting this as the status quo, the headteacher, Kamalakshi, initiated community outreach efforts, personally visiting families to listen to their concerns and explain the importance of education.\n\nThe personal interactions and on-ground visits led to a deep understanding that economic pressures were a significant barrier, even to the extent that they prevented parents from arranging transportation to school. Kamalakshi collaborated with the community to arrange transportation for students and even created WhatsApp groups to maintain regular communication with parents, making it easier for them to stay involved without sacrificing work.\n\nHer efforts paid off. Attendance rose, parents began attending PTMs more frequently, and students became more engaged in their studies. As one student from Grade V noted, \"My mother comes home late from work, but she still helps me with my homework. 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As a result, while the frequency of hazardous events has risen, the loss of human life has significantly declined—falling from 5,798 deaths in 2000 to 1,758 in 2020. \n\nHowever, the most vulnerable populations, especially children, remain at high risk. According to UNICEF, 24.1 million children in India are impacted by floods, cyclones, and heatwaves each year, highlighting the ongoing need for targeted protections and services.\n\nWhile India has made progress in several child-related indicators (e.g., the reduction in under-five mortality from 34 to 28 per 1,000 live births 15 ), many children under age five who live in remote locations are especially vulnerable to emergencies, particularly losing out on school days and on health care and other services. \n\nThere is urgent need for action at every level—international, national, sub-national, and local. While awareness of hazards and vulnerabilities has grown significantly, it remains clear that continuous, focused efforts are essential to building true resilience, particularly through education. \n\nSince education falls under the jurisdiction of the states, seamless coordination between state Departments of Education, the Ministry of Education, national and state-level disaster management authorities, and other relevant institutions is key. \n\nThis collaborative effort could drive the launch of a comprehensive school safety programme, one that deeply integrates disaster risk reduction (DRR) into the educational framework. \n\nA vital part of this strategy could include the establishment of a national school design testing facility, equipped to incorporate earthquake and flood-resistant features into all future school constructions. By embedding these standards into infrastructure, schools would become beacons of safety, especially in disaster-prone areas. \n\nThe integration of disaster preparedness into the New Education Policy (NEP) could further unify these efforts, ensuring that safety protocols and resilience-building become integral parts of a student’s education. \n\nAlongside theoretical lessons, hands-on experiences such as emergency drills and disaster simulations can build resilience to local hazards, ensuring students are equipped with knowledge and skills relevant to the specific risks faced by their communities, whether floods, earthquakes, cyclones, or other natural disasters. \n\nTo fully realise this vision, teachers and school leaders must be equipped to train students in vital life-saving skills like first aid and psychosocial support. 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Your mind becomes a dark, suffocating place, slowly extinguishing your innate brightness.\n\nThis sounds like an absurd nightmare, but it’s not much different from what many from the LGBTQIA+ community face every day, because those around them are more comfortable with the assumed character than with the real person.\n\nAs corporates, we can’t heal the world on our own. Longstanding social conditioning, prejudices, and practices will only gradually break down. However, we do have the power to move the needle. 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They may want to say, “I just celebrated my second anniversary with my partner,” “I had a big fight with my parents about my gender identity,” or “I was walking down the street, and someone made an inappropriate remark about me,” but eventually, they might simply say, “Oh… nothing special.”\n\nMany of us proudly display our family pics at the office or have these as our profile pictures on WhatsApp and other social media.. Are we conscious that many from the queer community find that this is not as simple, because of their fear of being judged or discriminated against?\n\nOf course, everyone has the right to keep their private life private. But we spend the bulk of our weekdays in an office, and it is natural to form connections there. At some point, personal and professional lives are bound to overlap. \n\nThere is a fear—especially amongst queer colleagues—that often stops an honest response in its tracks. 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We were young then and the shift was too huge for us to make sense of,” she says.\n\nWith her mother away from home for most of the time, the siblings were left to themselves. Colney remembers feeling lonely and lost, with no one to turn to.\n\n“I was 18 at the time and got into a relationship with a boy who was a drug user. Soon, I was also sucked into it because of the pressure to fit into his circle of friends, who were also users. I remember I used to throw up each time I took drugs, and in two months I had become addicted,” she recalls.\n\nHer boyfriend also led her on an emotional rollercoaster ride—breaking up with her often and then patching up, leaving her confused and vulnerable.\n\nShe eventually broke up with him for good and moved on to other relationships.\n\nOne day, Colney remembers waking up with blisters all over her body. When she was admitted to the hospital, she was diagnosed with herpes zoster. A test also confirmed she was HIV positive.\n\nHer ordeal at the hospital was nothing short of a nightmare, but Colney relives each incident with strength in her voice when even her friend, Nunui Lalnuntlangi—who is translating the conversation from Mizo to English, asks her to repeat the information.\n\nShe continues, “My body was full of blisters, my hair had all fallen out, and I couldn’t even put on my underwear. The hospital isolated me in a room that was meant for convicts visiting for treatment. I did not receive any counselling.”\n\nThe hospital even refused to change the sheets and her mother had to step in to help.\n\n“I was unaware I was being discriminated against,” she says. “In 2004, there was no ART (anti-retroviral therapy) centre for HIV patients and people had the notion that they would not live long and would be left to die.”\n\nColney’s immediate focus was to get off the drugs. She quit cold turkey and joined a camp for drug addicts at her church. The withdrawal was so intense that they suggested she leave the camp but Colney was determined to stop using drugs, and she did with their full support.\n\nThankfully, she did not face stigma from her family or friends. She kept herself busy with activities at church and decided to help other people, especially women living with "])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"3b:T9ec,"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,", and those with infected children so that they can be counselled and to prevent further transmission. We also reached out to sex workers and drug users to join us. We didn’t have any funds and generated our own by making candles and reselling stuff,” she explains.\n\nMizoram State AIDS Control Society got to know of the group’s work and offered the women to run a drop-in centre (DIC) where PLHIV are given counselling, psycho-social support, and legal advice. These centres also provide information about available services and facilities to PLHIV. PWNM also received a project from an international organisation that enabled them to upskill women for employment.\n\nDuring the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns, the PWNM team stepped in to help drug users with rehabilitation support from doctors and helped in the delivery of ARV drugs.\n\nBy partnering with Mizoram State AIDS Control Society, UNAIDS, and NGO Goonj, and connecting with government departments, colleges, Startup India, Mizoram State Legal Service Authority, women’s helplines, National AIDS Research Institute, and other organisations, it has reached thousands of women in the state.\n\nIts current initiative, Vihaan, funded by HIV Alliance India, focuses on care and support for people living with HIV.\n\nPWNM has a 33-member team and is run with the help of different church organisations, donations, and partnerships.\n\n“The journey has not been easy. While the stigma surrounding HIV-AIDS may have reduced, it’s still there. But our hard work and commitment to the cause has paid off, and has encouraged people to support us,” says Colney.\n\nIn 2019, Colney won the CII Foundation Woman Exemplar Award given to women changemakers. She now works closely with CII who supports her initiatives.\n\n“Our goals continue to be the same—provide life skills training and livelihoods with PLHIV, and advocacy and awareness towards the disease,” she says.\n\nColney got married in 2005; her husband is also HIV positive. They have a teenage son who was born HIV-negative.\n\nOne of the first women in Mizoram to publicly declare her HIV status, Coley emphasises that being diagnosed with HIV is not a death sentence.\n\n“The disease can be managed if diagnosed early and treatment starts on time and continues regularly. Don’t be afraid to approach your counsellor or doctor at any time. Be open about how you feel and talk to your peers. There’s life after an HIV diagnosis. Be brave and understand you deserve to be happy,” she says.\n"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"3c:T799,"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1," is deep-rooted, and a lack of education and the backwardness of the community did nothing to change it.\n\nOn a later visit, Mishra found that while children of the Gujjar community were enrolled in school, only three to four children from the Bedia community attended, and that too, enrolled as children of Gujjars—not using their original name or identity.\n\nThis was rooted in rampant caste discrimination—they were not allowed to sit with other students or drink water from the same place, and Bedis (women of the Bedia community) were only associated with sex work.\n\nAround 40 children started attending school within a year of Mishra working with the community. \n\nIn 2002, he started Samvedna—a non-profit that worked with children in the Bhopal slums. The NGO has since shifted its attention to the Bedia community.\n\nThe year 2010 saw the rumblings of change when the younger sister of the 14-year-old girl Mishra had first met insisted on going to school.\n\nHe had to fight with the family, and they relented on the condition that 12 other children——either of sex workers or were involved in sex work at some time in their lives—from the community should also be taken to Bhopal for their education.\n\n“I brought 13 children from the community to Bhopal, though only seven stayed on in the first year. They were housed in government hostels and studied in government schools. This is how our work started. Now, we have over 70 children from different villages studying here,” he says.\n\nBeaming with pride, Mishra recollects that the first girl to enroll in the programme completed her BTech and MTech and reached the final interview in the UPSC selection.\n\nMishra, along with Samvedna, has worked with 5,500 children in 60 villages in six districts of Madhya Pradesh—Bhopal, Rajgarh, Guna, Raisen, Vidisha, and Sagar—tackling issues at the grassroots level, ensuring continuing education in nearby schools and colleges.\n"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"3d:T666,"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Mishra points out a lot of people avoid the subject of human trafficking in India. Very few CSR funds are allocated for it, which means we are compromising the lives of lakhs of people.\n\n“While we have to stop trafficking, we need to focus more on prevention, reintegration, and rehabilitation. The factors of vulnerability that led to them being trafficked needs to be addressed,” he says.\n\nTo ensure human trafficking is seen and addressed by a social justice system, Mishra launched the RACE (Research, Advocacy, and Capacity Building against Exploitation) Lab.\n\nA vertical of Samvedna, RACE is India’s first anti-human trafficking lab. As a think-tank, it focuses on evidence-based research, advocates for policy and system changes, and builds the capacities of stakeholders to create an ecosystem to prevent and counter human trafficking.\n\n“I call it the CCS model—conceptual literacy of masses in human trafficking through awareness programmes, clarity of the people who work in this field, and the development of a specific skillset to work on it,” he adds.\n\nAn IPS officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre, Mishra holds a PhD in psychology from Barkatullah University.\n\nThe work with the Bedia community continues with heartening results. Education and livelihood programmes have created an amazing shift in mindsets. \n\n“I want to see a day when children are not forced into prostitution by their own family members. I want to see them dream big and fly high. 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They met a couple of doctors in Gorakhpur, one of whom ordered a biopsy where it was found that he had a cancer in the right humerus bone.\n\nThe next day itself, they travelled to Mumbai to seek further treatment at the Tata Cancer Memorial Hospital. Kumar says, initially, as a starry-eyed kid, on a dose of Bollywood, he was excited about the visit.\n\n“Things started getting painful and one month was passed in a battery of tests, a biopsy, and six chemotherapy cycles. I had to undergo a surgery for replacement of the humerus bone. The process was draining–I was feeling angry, resignation, and grief, and wondered whether I would recover,” he says of the ordeal.\n\nThe treatment cost Rs 4.5 lakh and Kumar says he was fortunate to receive help from government agencies, NGOs, and support from friends and family.\n\nIt took six months of physiotherapy for him to regain movement of his right hand. And throughout this period, and even though he was young at the time, what played in his mind after seeing the helplessness of many patients was how he could help them in the future.\n\nHe continued his education without much interruption–he holds an MA in Sociology, a master’s in social work, a certification from Tata Institute of Social Sciences and a PG Diploma from the Indian School of Development Management.\n\n“I began working with different NGOs like V Care Foundation, Access Life Foundation, CanKids KidsCan and others, visiting big hospitals like Tata Memorial Cancer Centre, Sion Hospital, Wadia Hospital, visiting patients who came from all over India and provided them with information about accommodation, food, treatment so that they don’t feel alone in their struggle,” he says.\n\nKumar also founded a support group of childhood cancer survivors visiting hospitals to share their stories of fighting the disease and the recovery process.\n"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"40:Tc9d,"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"\nIn 2019, he was visiting his village when the country went into lockdown. He perceived things had not changed much the healthcare system remained fragmented, and people still found it difficult to access specialists or specialised care.\n\n“I spoke to the doctors at different hospitals I had frequented as part of my work, a few technical experts and with advice from the district Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and started a telemedicine centre in Sant Kabir Nagar under the DigiSwasthya Foundation,” he says.\n\nInitially, Kumar facilitated telephone and video-calling to experts from his own home and then moved it to a 200x200 sq. ft centre in the village.\n\nHalf the centre is partitioned for the patient to have the privacy of talking to doctors via a big screen. The other half of the centre is manned by nurses who check the vitals of the patient and records the history of the patient.\n\nFollowing the success of the first centre, Kumar opened another one in the same district, one in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, and two in Maharashtra; in Palghar and Tekwadi.\n\n“People were sceptical at first about reaching out to doctors via video calls. They wondered what kind of consultation it was without injections or talking to the doctor in person. I was able to convince them that they now had access to some of the best doctors from the top hospitals in the country,” he adds.\n\nKumar has on board doctors from Tier-I city hospitals like Apollo Hospital, Tata Cancer Memorial Centre, JJ Hospital, Wadia Hospital, KEM Hospital, Lilavati Hospital, Sion Hospital, and others. Some doctors charge a nominal fee from the clinic while others work pro bono. No fee is charged from the patients.\n\nMoreover, the doctors are also available for follow-up consultations, and DigiSwasthya helps patients with referrals to hospitals, and in dire cases, financial help for treatment. Patients are also offered 59% discount in the diagnostic labs and medical stores the organization has partnered with.\n\nAlong with the tele-medicine centres, the DigiSwasthya team travels from village to village with educational material and teaches rural households how they can avail of affordable and accessible services through DigiSwasthya telemedicine centres.\n\nSo far, the foundation has served over 21,300 patients with 115 healthcare professionals on board. It has conducted 594+ health awareness and teleconsultation camps across India. It has impacted 6,50,000 beneficiaries directly or indirectly. It runs with a team of 22 staff, of which 17 work full-time and five are interns.\n\nKumar says raising funds has been the biggest challenge so far. In the first year, he used all his savings to start the centre. He has now started raising money from CSR funds, high-networth individuals (HNIs), and from friends and family who believe in the cause.\n\n“It’s heartening to see people unhesitant to visit the centres. Earlier, women were reluctant to share their problems with the doctors. Now, they are open to visiting the centres and talking openly to the doctors,” he says.\n\nNow, his plan is to facilitate a specialist’s visit once a month in each of the centres. 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The fish turned around and swam back to affectionately rub its head against Charloo’s outstretched hand, which he feels was its way of thanking him.\n\n“I didn’t realise that fish had feelings and since then, I have discovered what fish are capable of in terms of feelings and affection. This one incident brought home the fact that there are so many living beings underwater that are suffering and need help,” he adds.\n\nCharloo, who quit his banking job in Hong Kong in 1995, moved to Goa to join the Barracuda Diving Centre. An avid scuba diver, he had become an instructor only the previous year.\n\nIn just a few years, he had taken over from the existing partners to run it on his own. As part of the dive centre’s activities, he would organise an annual underwater and beach clean-up on the last Sunday of April—just before the monsoons set in.\n\n“We had to clean the water too because of tourists and local operators not having a garbage bin on boats. Moreover, there was no garbage collection on the island,” explains Charloo.\n\nThe community around the beach, staff from resorts nearby and the National Institute of Oceanography, as well as students joined in the exercise.\n\nWhile he believes that one day of cleaning is akin to putting a band-aid on a heart condition, the exercise was meant to have more of an educational impact than a physical one.\n\n“Our aim was to make people aware of the kind of rubbish ending up in the ocean, which we handed over to a recycling plant in Margao, which otherwise would end up in a landfill,” he elaborates.\n\nIn 2009, Charloo also founded "])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"43:Tc5f,"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"The simple incident with the angelfish got Charloo thinking about how marine life suffers as a consequence of our actions on land. His journey towards conservation began when he received data on overfishing and conducted surveys for the Central Marine Fisheries Institute.\n\nThe Coastal Impact team initially undertook marine awareness presentations in government schools on marine life, the status of coral, and how individuals can help in maintaining biodiversity. As a part of this, Charloo also organised an inter-school painting competition, and the winning entries were printed on a calendar and distributed free of charge to spread awareness.\n\n“About four years ago, I decided to scale down my diving operations and concentrate more on Coastal Impact. I didn’t put my hat out there for donations or funds because I didn’t know what projects I wanted to start,” he says.\n\nHis first focus, i.e. coral transplantation, came out of the understanding that corals are important for oceans and climate change.\n\n“With climate change and increase in ocean temperatures, we have lost almost 60% of corals worldwide,” says Charloo, adding, “Corals act as a barrier between big waves, tsunamis, and helps the health of the oceans. Even if they form only 1% of the surface of the entire oceans, they support 25% of the biodiversity that exists.”\n\nHe also points out not all oxygen we breathe comes from the forests; oceans contribute as much as 60-70% of the generation of oxygen that we breathe.\n\nAlso, increasing temperatures and the Poles losing more ice are bringing in more fresh water to oceans, which is changing their chemical composition leading to changes in pH levels, and acidification, which in turn weakens coral structures.\n\nWith a grant of Rs 20 lakh from the Habitats Trust, Charloo and his team of volunteers embarked upon a coral transplantation project in Goa.\n\nHe discovered the process by accident while reading about Florida-based Mote Marine Labs, which is transplanting corals on land in aquariums. These are grown in controlled conditions and transplanted onto reefs. Today, more than a million coral fragments have been grown worldwide using this method.\n\nThough it kicked its imagination, Charloo’s coral transplantation project in Goa is slightly different.\n\n“We made metal frames that stood two feet from the ground. These frames are lined with unused or discarded floor tiles, with holes drilled at the corners. Each frame had 12 tiles,” he explains.\n\nThe next step involves picking up broken coral fragments from the ocean floor that is cut into two, three centimetres pieces and stuck onto the tiles using a kind of super glue. Forty-eight fragments can be stuck on each frame and these are tied to the rocks.\n\nIn the pilot project, 182 fragments were transplanted that have recorded a growth of almost 500% in the coral fragments in two years.\n\nThe pandemic hit the project hard as funding dried up. Corals needed constant attention, and algae and sediment buildup had to be removed regularly. This was possible only with a help of a team of volunteers who worked for free, but this was not a sustainable proposition.\n"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"44:T6de,"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"Charloo thought of another idea—putting up the corals for adoption.\n\n“Anyone can adopt a coral for Rs 5,500 a year, which goes into its maintenance. Right now, 110 out of a total of 192 fragments have been adopted and they are doing very well,” he says.\n\nThe NGO has also been approached by a startup, which fashioned a cement structure for transplanting corals, and another that’s sequestering carbon, making a press, compressing them into floor tiles where the corals have been transplanted. He hopes that these ideas will take the project forward.\n\nA volunteer with Coastal Impact has also brought AI into the equation, uploading photos onto a computer and recognising the borders and calculating a coral’s circumference. This allows for accurate measurements.\n\nCharloo agrees marine conservation is not getting the attention it deserves. He admits he has knocked on many doors, especially corporates for CSR funding, but was turned away each time.\n\n“Companies want quick results and long-term impact is far from their minds. Our project needs time for visible results,” he says. But he’s thankful that two companies have adopted batches of multiple fragments and hopes more will follow suit.\n\nLast year, Charloo was featured in National Geographic's “One For Change“ series, which showcased changemakers who are making a difference to the planet.\n\nIndia has a 7,500-km long coastline, with many issues plaguing the surrounding oceans and their biodiversity. Charloo says organisations should step out of their silos and work together towards sustained and collective impact.\n\nHis next plan is to raise funds to work around the coastline and is looking at a project that aims to grow artificial reefs to aid more catch for fisherfolk.\n"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"45:T95e,"])</script><script>self.__next_f.push([1,"\n\nIt needed an all-around intervention– from the collection of waste, recycling and then using the by-products as raw materials for diverse industries led to the formation of PadCare Labs in 2018, a Pune-based startup that provides an end-to-end solution for sanitary waste disposal.\n\nFour years ago, Ajinkya’s initial thought was to develop a machine to be installed in washrooms where women can dispose of the pad at the source.\n\n“We implemented this in 2019 to check its feasibility and we observed was that the women just wanted to get rid of the pads–not bothered about recycling or incineration. My first dream was to have a small unit that could be installed in washrooms where processing could happen in a decentralised way. Indian washrooms are quite compact, and most of the time there is no water. And this solution would come at a high recurring cost,” Dhariya points out.\n\nAlong with sanitary napkin vending machines, the company developed PadCare bins to be installed in washrooms, where used sanitary waste could be collected and stored for up to 30 days and still remain free of odour and bacterial growth.\n\nThese are then collected and transported to a centralised unit, the PadCare X which claims to be the world-first 5D technology-based sanitary napkin disposal and recycling system.\n\n“After four years, and more than five thousand plus failure trials in terms of process development, we launched this technology 18 months ago and with a capacity of 100 kg and right now we are starting soon 1.5 metric tonnes processing capacity at Pune,” Dhariya says.\n\nRight now, there are 6,000 PadCare bins installed free of charge at 250 clients’ offices across India and 1.5 tonnes of pads are processed every day at the two central processing units in Pune. 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