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The 21 year old active youth volunteer from Odisha

The 21 year old active youth volunteer from Odisha dreamt of doing something for the society since childhood. Her volunteering journey started after being elected as president of the Block level ANANYA girl’s federation and continues to go a long way since.
From being an introvert to addressing masses, Yashoda always dreamt big of becoming a leader despite all odds. This year, she addressed a crowd consisting of 5,000 people on Child Marriage during Koshli Dhanuyatra Mohachhav at her district. Her parents who initially refused for such activities and yelled at Yashoda very often for being involved in mass mobilization and rallies, are now her biggest supporters.
The evolving leader used to take life skills sessions among adolescent girl groups along with discussions, exercises and games etc. These sessions helped in capacity building and discussions that empowered adolescent girls. Later on, she was also trained on the Sexual Reproductive Health Rights and shared the knowledge with adolescents through group interactions that increased their awareness about Menstrual Health and hygiene.

Coming from a semi-rural area of Thiruvallur distr

Coming from a semi-rural area of Thiruvallur district of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, volunteering has empowered Vijayabigai to work towards a better society. She has inspired and mobilized many volunteers through her actions and dedication. The 21 year old youth started her volunteering journey when she was in the 12th standard after getting inspired from her mother, a teacher in Anganwadi school.
Vijayambigai was able to identify herself and her purpose because of volunteering. It not only boosted her self-esteem but also made her realise the role of a responsible citizen of the country. She organized and conducted 30 community awareness programmes at MCDS during May to June 2018, provided assistance to United Ways, Chennai to conduct awareness camp on Health and Hygiene.
She has volunteered in organisations like Bhumi NGO (2018 -2019) , Arunodhayam NGO as a life skill trainer for youth, Indian youth café, volunteered with tribal groups at Wayanad, Kerala while being an active volunteer for child health and diet at Little Walks NGO from 2019. The changemaker campaigned for Psycho Social support at Spoken Waves in 2018 to 2019, volunteered at Asha Nivas for a learning aid project for 8th grade students in 2019. She organized and coordinated to form Children’s parliament in slums of Chennai and Bangalore in 2019 at the Centre for Social Action NGO and is providing Psychosocial support for COVID-19 in tandem with Greater Chennai Corporation.

A 17 year old example of power of youth, Rohan Mod

A 17 year old example of power of youth, Rohan Modi from Telangana formulated a model of contact-less delivery of Essential Grocery boxes to unemployed workers by developing an Android App, India's first app that caters to displaced community, successfully implemented in 3 States, impacted 1200+ people, and provided 8400+ days of essentials thus avoiding potential starvation during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Rohan’s initiative ‘Go-vid’ has served Telangana, Maharashtra and Kerala so far and he plans to serve across India. Go-vid started its journey in playing a small role to alleviate hunger for out of work daily wage urban workers both casual workers and those working in the informal sector by soliciting, collecting and packaging food for distribution through a network of kirana stores and other programs that serve our target population groups. The organisation’s services include grocery box programs and emergency food programs. Go-vid receives support from individual donors, charitable organizations and corporate sponsorship. Our services improve the ability of families to care for children and achieve goals of self-sufficiency. Go-vid's services, now, are a small investment in comparison to the cost of ignoring the problem of hunger in the county and the influence it has on a number of health and crime issues. Go-vid plans to serve 100,000 people in Telangana, 60,000 in Maharashtra and 40,000 in Kerala during the first year. To achieve this, it intends to distribute 25,000 grocery boxes in Telangana, 15,000 in Maharashtra and 10,000 in Kerala.
The organisation estimated 50-Lakh urban unemployed not getting the benefit currently, and assuming an average family size of 4, the target group is 2 crore urban unemployed youth and their families.

“Community and parents have an important role to

“Community and parents have an important role to play in teaching and learning. Like what the school saw a gap was that the community did not consider the school to be their own and the school also set itself apart from the community. Pradeep Kumar Sharma fromChhatisgarh eliminated this scope.
In the school, the handicaps of the community were not limited to meetings only, Pradeep started connecting them in different ways and started working to increase their participation. Some litteratemembers of the community shared some of their knowledge in the school along with some artisans, potters and skilled workers who were also encouraged to demonstrate their skills in schools.
A better evolution of knowledge was observed when the community and school collaborated with each other to bring about a change.
During the pandemic, Pradeep realised that it is important to communicate the importance of education for which cooperation of the community was required. Monitoring committee was formed to ensure the smooth flow of awareness building amongst the children.
Pradeep believes that hands on knowledge for children is the best to learn and grow.

With a strong will to make an impact and help peop

With a strong will to make an impact and help people, and from the inspiration that brave social workers have, Poorvaprabha Patil from Maharashtra has been brought up by a single parent- a strong and independent woman. She was sexually abused at the age of 6 and suffered from clinical depression at the age of 17. She attempted suicide in 2016.
Her recovery from it had been through volunteering and helping people, which soon turned from a 'hobby' to the very purpose of her life. Starting her journey from ground up, Poorvaprabha is a self-starter, a young change-maker who embraces new ideas and creates solutions for challenges that the world currently faces. As a medico, she believes that it is her responsibility to do her best to ensure safe, accessible, affordable health care and health care for all, irrespective of who they are, what they do or where they come from.
She started out with a small volunteering effort which gradually led her to heading an organisation of 20,000+ medical students making an on-ground (person-to-person) impact to 2,00,000+ people per year; and working as the Regional Focal Point for the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth; and being the Co-moderator for Health Information for All- a WHO supported global health network; among many other initiatives.

Chetan Pardeshi from Pune is an all-rounder workin

Chetan Pardeshi from Pune is an all-rounder working in multiple areas for a better community that includes Quality Education, Good Health and Well Being, Gender Equality, Clean Water and Sanitation, Reduced Inequalities and Partnership for sustainable development goals, Chetan has done it all at the age of 25. He has worked extensively and has implemented several government initiatives like Digital India Week, Yoga Day, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and Self for Society. He was a full time National Youth Volunteer under the aegis of Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan, Government of India.

Chetan conducted village level surveys for youth volunteers and youth clubs and also on government schemes like Mid-Day Meal scheme, Adolescents Health Awareness etc.

“ My mission is to mobilize the masses & inspire

“ My mission is to mobilize the masses & inspire others.I believe volunteering is something that every person should do in any way possible”

Nupur Agarwal from Uttarakhand comes with a vision to develop & empower communities, with the goal of creating inclusive societies. Through the Dehradun Drum circle, she calls out to all kinds of people in a community to join the event.

An initiator, her project named ‘Kahaani’ works towards cultural preservation of a community through wall art depiction of old customs & traditions shared by the elder members in the form of stories.

Her initiative evolved as a social enterprise that works with the members of the village to make local & safe products. Nupur believes in learning by doing because of which she actively participates in every project and always aims to help communities develop in a smart & sustainable manner.

Harshit Gupta from New Delhi runs a non-profit org

Harshit Gupta from New Delhi runs a non-profit organization called ‘Womenite’ that works on issues like child sexual abuse, gender and menstrual hygiene in schools, colleges and other community areas. Apart from reaching out to 2,00,000 students and women through our 300+ workshops and campaigns in different schools, colleges and institutions, he personally carried out the whole COVID19 relief work on behalf of Womenite. The organisation managed to impact over 20,000 girls and women by distributing 2 lakh sanitary napkins, 2000 dry ration kits and serving over 5000 cooked meals. His organisation worked in 100 North MCD schools as a part of safety week organized by Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights.
Harshit’s personal engagement is through motivating the youth of our nation to do good for the society. He believes that leadership is not about giving orders, it is about inspiring others to be leaders and setting an example by working more than the other members. He is able to impact various stakeholders at the same time that includes the youth working with human agents of change, communities in terms of school children and 20,000 females via, distribution of sanitary napkins.

Chaitanya Prabhu from Maharashtra founded ‘Mark

Chaitanya Prabhu from Maharashtra founded ‘Mark Your Presence’ at the age of 20 and took up ‘registering’ as a voter a challenge upon himself and further registered 550 people. He registered as many people as he could for the Lok Sabha elections. After realizing that he can empower young voters, the 22 year old leader met the Chief Electoral Officer to gain the support of the Election Commission.
The organisation started conducting seminars in colleges to spread the message and since then, the team has registered young voters and adapted different techniques to reach out to a larger audience. “Register in 7.30mins' – I branded it,”
Turning youth into educated voters has been Chaitanya’s mission. The organisation has registered 10,000+ voters and continues the campaign for young registrants. What started as a help to friends is now a movement on strengthening democracy. Mark Your Presence has served as a platform to bring people together for the task of nation-building. “I will not stop till every student is registered and is an informed voter in every college, school, and university of India.” says Chaitanya.

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