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Photo credits

The photos in SocioStory's sample stories, demo organisations and pages are the work of photographers who share them under open licences. Here's who took each one, where it's from and the licence that lets us use it.

19 photos · 15 AI-made pictures · Checked 26 September 2026

Stories

  1. Illustrative

    Story: “A plumber’s Sundays: fixing school toilets across Ghaziabad”

    An AI-made picture, not a photograph, until we find a real one to take its place.

  2. Close-up of hands writing notes in a notebookIllustrative

    Story: “Ask for outcomes, not photographs”

    “Businesswoman writing in a notebook closeup” by Shixart1985, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY 2.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  3. Illustrative

    Story: “Blood on call”, and the demo blood donation camp drive

    An AI-made picture, not a photograph, until we find a real one to take its place.

  4. Young trees growing between bamboo stakes in a dense Miyawaki plantation at IIT HyderabadIllustrative

    Story: “Counting living trees, not planted ones”

    “Miyawaki Plantation - IIT Hyderabad, India” by Rohitjahnavi, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC0 1.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  5. A cow drinks at a village pond in Tonk district, Rajasthan, as women wash clothes at the water's edgeIllustrative

    Story: “Forty ponds in four years”

    “Women washing and cow drinking at a river in Rajasthan, India” by ILRI / Stevie Mann, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY 2.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  6. College students with notebooks listening at a workshop in UdhagamandalamIllustrative

    Story: “How a campus SocioStory Centre filled forty seats in a day”

    “Students in Udhagamandalam EH College Workshop on Tamil computing and Tamil Wikipedia” by Thamizhpparithi Maari, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  7. Illustrative

    Story: “Mobile health vans that log every visit”

    An AI-made picture, not a photograph, until we find a real one to take its place.

  8. Library books on a shelf, each spine labelled with its catalogue numberIllustrative

    Story: “One Saturday, 120 employees and a school library that finally opened”

    “Books At Central Library On Shelves” by Frederick Noronha, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  9. Illustrative

    Story: “Scribes for exam season”

    An AI-made picture, not a photograph, until we find a real one to take its place.

  10. Illustrative

    Story: “Stitching a way back to work”

    An AI-made picture, not a photograph, until we find a real one to take its place.

  11. Shelves of books behind the windows of a blue mobile library bus parked under treesIllustrative

    Story: “The library bus that turns a highway dhaba into a reading room”

    “Bangalore mobile library” by Rathfelder, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  12. Illustrative

    Story: “The retired teacher who runs a free coaching class from her verandah”

    An AI-made picture, not a photograph, until we find a real one to take its place.

  13. Illustrative

    Story: “Wheels for Anjali”

    An AI-made picture, not a photograph, until we find a real one to take its place.

Our pages

  1. A man in a white shirt reads the morning paper beside his motorbike in Jew Town, KochiIllustrative

    The About page

    “Kochi, Jew Town, India” by Vyacheslav Argenberg, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

    Credit as the author asks: © Vyacheslav Argenberg

    Cropped and resized.

  2. A tamarind sapling in soft lightIllustrative

    A spare banner (not shown at the moment)

    “Tamarind Sapling with Rack Focus” by Saishna96, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  3. Two hands pressing soil around a newly planted saplingIllustrative

    The Volunteer and For volunteers pages

    “Plant a Sapling for Better Future” by Robbieross123, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  4. College students laughing in an auditorium during a workshop session in MaharashtraIllustrative

    The For colleges page

    “The Participants Students and Teachers5” by Sagarmarkal, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  5. Water spilling over a village check dam in Telangana, with fields and trees beyondIllustrative

    The For CSR page

    “Check Dam On Ooka Chettu Vaagu at Peddamungalachedu Village” by Kavali Chandrakanth KCK, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  6. Women at a self-help group meeting in rural Tamil Nadu, smiling and talkingIllustrative

    The For NGOs page

    “India - Faces - Rural women driving their own change 1” by McKay Savage, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY 2.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  7. Volunteers planting saplings in a new urban forest plot at Kanakakunnu, ThiruvananthapuramIllustrative

    A spare photo (not shown at the moment)

    “Afforestation at Kanakakunnu” by BemanHerish, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Cropped and resized.

Demo organisations and drives

  1. Sunset over the Upper Lake in Bhopal, with a small wooded island and a boat in silhouetteIllustrative

    Demo drive: Upper Lake clean-up, Bhopal

    “Sunset in Upper lake, Bhopal” by SUBHASH E, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  2. A village of tiled houses among green paddy fields below misty Sahyadri hills near Junnar, Pune districtIllustrative

    Demo CSR foundation Greenline Foundation: its cover

    “Village from the dreams” by UrbanWanderer, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  3. Illustrative

    Demo NGO Hunar Sewing Collective: its gallery (“Cutting cloth for a bag order”)

    An AI-made picture, not a photograph, until we find a real one to take its place.

  4. Illustrative

    Demo NGO Hunar Sewing Collective: its cover, website and blog

    An AI-made picture, not a photograph, until we find a real one to take its place.

  5. Illustrative

    Demo NGO Hunar Sewing Collective: graduation day on its website, gallery, blog and events

    An AI-made picture, not a photograph, until we find a real one to take its place.

  6. Illustrative

    Demo NGO Hunar Sewing Collective: a graduate in its gallery, updates and events

    An AI-made picture, not a photograph, until we find a real one to take its place.

  7. Illustrative

    Demo NGO Hunar Sewing Collective: its bookkeeping circle (programme, gallery and blog)

    An AI-made picture, not a photograph, until we find a real one to take its place.

  8. Illustrative

    Demo NGO Hunar Sewing Collective: its Return to Work course (programme, gallery and website)

    An AI-made picture, not a photograph, until we find a real one to take its place.

  9. Illustrative

    Demo NGO Hunar Sewing Collective: its Fair Orders programme, updates and blog

    An AI-made picture, not a photograph, until we find a real one to take its place.

  10. Illustrative

    Demo NGO Hunar Sewing Collective: its workshop (website, gallery and events) and the demo drive “Sorting donated fabric”

    An AI-made picture, not a photograph, until we find a real one to take its place.

The Academy

  1. Adults with laptops at a training workshop in a seminar room in KolkataIllustrative

    Academy course cover: CSR Essentials

    “Wikidata Workshop - Kolkata 2017-09-16 2884” by Biswarup Ganguly, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY 3.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  2. Hundreds of rural women and men seated in a hall at a volunteers' gathering in Tamil NaduIllustrative

    Academy course cover: Running a CSR Foundation

    “India - Hand in Hand volunteer mela 1” by McKay Savage, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY 2.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  3. The dome of the Supreme Court of India in New DelhiIllustrative

    Academy course cover: CSR Law in Depth

    “Supreme Court of India” by Subhashish Panigrahi, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    Cropped and resized.

  4. Wind turbines on farmland below cloud-topped hills in south IndiaIllustrative

    Academy course cover: The SDGs and India

    “Wind power in south india - panoramio” by Shankaran Murugan, from Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY 3.0.

    Cropped and resized.

Data and maps

  • PIN codes and districts

    Contains PIN code and district data from the Department of Posts’ All India Pincode Directory on data.gov.in, under the Government Open Data License – India.

    We use it to fill in a drive’s district from its PIN code, to sort drives by distance from a PIN code someone types, and to draw our maps. The Department of Posts doesn’t endorse SocioStory, and the data comes without warranty. We never use anyone’s device location.

  • Aspirational districts

    NITI Aayog, List of 112 Aspirational Districts (July 2023).

  • Map tiles

    Map tiles by OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, with data from OpenStreetMap contributors.

    OpenStreetMap data is available under the Open Database License. We hide border lines on our maps.