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Sandra Lavi Gojkovic walked away from corporate success and a comfortable life in Switzerland to protect children across rural India. Thirteen years later, her work reaches nearly 20,000 kids in 30 villages.
Sandra Lavie Gojkovic left her corporate job in Dubai with just four pieces of clothing and a question that wouldn't let her rest. Twelve years later, her work has transformed education for children across 30 villages in West Bengal.
After a car accident ended her farming career at 46, Devaki Amma planted one tree during recovery and never stopped. Four decades later, her five-acre forest is Kerala's answer to its only district without natural tree cover.
Namrata Jain grew up traveling 8 kilometers to school in Naxal-affected Dantewada. Now she's back as an IAS officer, riding through the same difficult terrain to bring schools and services to others like her.
When COVID shut down schools in remote West Bengal, homemaker Malati Murmu opened her doors and started teaching. Today, 45 first-generation learners gather daily in her mud classroom.
When Girija Kumari Madhu saw children with cerebral palsy sidelined from sports, she pledged her own gold jewelry to give them a chance to play. Now 250 young athletes are winning national championships and rewriting what's possible.
After losing her mother outside a hospital during the pandemic, Seetha Devi turned an auto rickshaw into a mobile oxygen unit. The same woman who once lived on the streets saved over 800 patients from suffocating alone.
