Ridhi Agrawal

Swagatika Acharya from Odisha was diagnosed with cancer when she was a teenager. Today, her fight has helped the women with free breast cancer screenings and other patients with surgeries and chemotherapy treatment.

Sameera Jalan, a 16-year-old from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, founded PinThread, an initiative that teaches rural women and children of domestic help how to convert waste fabric into useful items like laptop covers, pencil cases and more.

Volunteers, many of whom are students themselves, are briefed on the learning levels of each student and given book PDFs to facilitate lesson planning and teach students.