Impact Stories

Kiranmai- Stem Cell Donor

By: Reshma Jain If you could offer hope- a chance at life- to someone dying from cancer, would you? Well, I think most of us would do the best p...

Muthukumar- World Bone Marrow Donor Day

By:Reshma Jain While all of us remained locked at home due to the pandemic, there were a few others like Muthukumar who went an extra mile to sa...

Muhammed Nafih- Stem Cell Donor

By:Reshma Jain It was that time of the year when Kerala was reeling under floods and at the same time a person was suffering from a severe healt...

Kaushik Patnaik- Bone Marrow Donor

By:Reshma Jain "If I can make a difference in one person’s life, then that’s success for me", says Kaushik Patel, a stem c...

Nayab Midha- Spoken Word Artist

By:Reshma Jain If poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words, then Nayab Midha, a young poet proves it right. Hailing from Sri Gangana...

Anvita- World Suicide Prevention Day

By:Reshma Jain Anvita lost her best friend Prajna to suicide. Anvita met Prajna in the 11th grade when she joined a BASE integrated college that...

Rashi Thakaran- India’s first mental health helpline (24*7) ‘Kiran’

By:Reshma Jain As the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment launched India’s first round the clock mental health helpline, 21-year-ol...

Jincy- World Suicide Prevention Day

By:Reshma Jain He left a note along with his ATM pin. He said he’s sorry for disappointing his parents. He mentioned that he had left a li...

Purvi- World Suicide Prevention Day

By:Reshma Jain Every year, September 10 is observed as World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) in order to provide worldwide commitment and action t...

Vaishali Kulkarni More- First solo woman motorbiker of Andhra Pradesh

By:Reshma Jain Sporting on a 220 CC Bajaj Avenger Cruise bike that she named it as ‘Ellie’, (short form of the French word Esprit Li...

Abhishek Thaware- India's first teeth archer

By:Reshma Jain A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim and what better example than Abhishek Thaware who despite the odds, made ...

By:Reshma Jain At a time when most of the youngsters are hooked to their smartphones and are active on social media, there are a few from the ec...

Geeta Chouhan- International wheelchair basketball player

By:Reshma Jain “Disability need not be an obstacle to success,” believes Geeta Chouhan, an International wheelchair basketball playe...

Indian Magic Academy

By:Reshma Jain A child prodigy who stepped into the world of magic at a young age of 10 is an inherent artist himself. Performing magic has alwa...

Devnar school for blind

By:Reshma Jain “Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear”, goes an adage. Devnar foundation for the blin...

Rajendra Singh- Waterman of India

By:Reshma Jain I was in class nine when I first learnt about the term ‘Johad’ also known as percolation pond which is popular in Raj...

It was one of the days in February of 2016, when Shyla Talluri received a call late at night from India. The call was to inform the state of affa...

Aryan Pasha- India's first transman bodybuilder

By:Reshma Jain “I’m a boy who was born as a girl, and have to prove to myself every day that I’m a man enough for the world, a...

By:Reshma Jain It was in 2008 when Aditya suffered a major sports injury forcing him to be bedridden for a long time. While being dependent on u...

COVID-19 Free Jobs Forum

By:Reshma Jain Ever since coronavirus struck India, terms like lay-offs, firings, furloughs, etc have been dominating the headlines. Due to the lo...

By:Reshma Jain When food was being distributed to the brick kiln workers in Nagpur by the volunteers of ‘Seva Kitchen’ during the lo...

Maj. Gen. GD Bakshi

By:Reshma Jain Independence Day is around the corner and Socio Story brings to you the story of Major General Dr Gagan Deep Bakshi, SM, VSM, a r...

Kaamya Karthikeyan- The Mountain Conqueror

By:Reshma Jain This mountain kid was ‘born into adventure’. Mountaineer Kaamya Karthikeyan was yet to open her eyes to the outside w...

Social Crusader- Malleshwar Rao

By:Reshma Jain “I am just returning after performing the funeral rites of a covid-19 patient as none of the family members agreed to do th...

Priyadarshani Pawar- First Female Super Randonneur

By:Reshma Jain When Priyadarshani Pawar took up cycling for exercise in 2017, buying herself a second-hand mountain bicycle, little did she know...

Kalpana Ramesh- Water Warrior

By:Reshma Jain When Kalpana Ramesh and her husband decided to move back to India in the year 2000, they chose to settle in Hyderabad. Kalpana th...

Anmish Varma- India's Karate and Kickboxing Champion

By:Reshma Jain A world champion, a mountaineer and a social worker are the best terms to define Anmish Varma from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh....

Patch Design for IAF's Rafale Squadron

By:Reshma Jain Saurav Chordia from Assam was on cloud nine on the day the first batch of Rafale fighter jets roared over the India airspace...

By:Reshma Jain East Delhi is home to the Ghazipur Landfill that is set to become taller than the Taj Mahal. It is a space that now represents wa...

By:Reshma Jain Born in a coastal town of Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh, Stephen Anurag Prathipati who is fondly known as Kingsman did not experience t...

Wings of Angelz

By:Reshma Jain From being diagnosed with rare muscular nervous disorder called Friedreich ataxia to being the youngest Indian in the Middle East...

Farzana Begum-Fit women for a Fit society

By:Reshma Jain ‘God gives the toughest battles to his strongest soldiers’, believes Pinkathon ambassador and functional strength tra...

Theatre For A Cause

By:Reshma Jain “Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society”, goes a saying. And to reflect it, a group of like-minded indivi...

Dr S C Shankare Gowda- Doctor in five rupees

By:Reshma Jain If I were to describe Dr S C Shankare Gowda, then I would have put it in these simple terms- a flag-bearer of hope, a life-saver ...

By:Reshma Jain What better idea than ‘Getting Fit’ and ‘Doing Good’? Imagine for every kilometre you walk, jog or run; y...

Anil Kumar- sculptures artist

By:Reshma Jain When PENCILS are used as a medium to depict art, it changes the way we look at pencils. Meet K Anil Kumar from Hyderabad who does...

Anand Arnold-first wheelchair bodybuilder

By:Reshma Jain “My Ability is stronger than my Disability,” states Anand Arnold who is the first wheelchair bodybuilder of India. Ha...

SWAN Livelihood

By:Reshma Jain July 15 was declared as the World Youth Skills Day (WYSD) by the United Nations at its General Assembly held in November 2014. Yo...

Captain Soniya Jain-Vande Bharat Mission

By:Reshma Jain Life had come to a standstill in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. While lives remained locked at homes and the nations...

Saloni Heart Foundation

By:Reshma Jain Can you ever imagine a rickshaw-walas son getting medical advice from a top doctor at Stanford Hospital? Or even an average middl...

By:Reshma Jain Illiteracy is one of the major reasons that impact the development and growth of our country. This being majorly a rural phenomen...

Akash Chourasiya- Sustainable Agriculture

By:Reshma Jain When Akash Chourasiya was preparing for the AIIMS entrance exam, life took a turn for the better. After looking at the growing po...

Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organization

By:Reshma Jain Known as the ‘Mountain Man’, he has truly lived up to his name. He is an Indian green activist and founder of the Him...

HS Survivor Ankita Muwal

By:Reshma Jain When Ankita Muwal, 27 years, was diagnosed with a rare skin disease called Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS), little did she know tha...

Bike-Ambulance-Dada

By:Reshma Jain When Karimul Haque from Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal turned his two-wheeler into an “ambulance”, the villagers ...

Goggles for Blind

By:Reshma Jain ‘Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible’ and one such star giving a helping hand ...

Blind Relief Association

By:Reshma Jain ‘Not being able to reach the stars does not mean you can’t reach for them’ and Ankur Dhama, an alumnus of JPM S...

India's Grammy Award winner and noted environmentalist Ricky Kej

By:Reshma Jain “The day I got my Degree in Dental Surgery (DDS), I gave the certificate to my Father, and I became a full-time musician. I...

Football for Friendship

By:Reshma Jain With myriad dreams twinkling in her eyes, 15-year-old Ananya Kamboj from Mohali, Punjab has now been selected into the WLF Ambass...

By:Reshma Jain As a child, Anugreh Sehtya was always curious and one thing that always intrigued him a lot was building innovative things. Reali...

"Its time to speak Out Mard- Against Domestic Violence on Men"

By:Reshma Jain It was the picture of his three-year-old daughter buying chocolates at a store that flashed through his mind when he was on the v...

India's Yoga Wonder Girl

By:Reshma Jain June 21 marks an important day not only in India but the entire world. It is 'International Day of Yoga' and what better ...

Mental Health Matters

By: Reshma Jain “On January 6, 2019, it was around 8:45 pm when the bell rang. I was in my room. I could vaguely hear my dad as he rushed ...

By:Reshma Jain With a vision to seek a world of hope and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live with honour a...

Mission Jeewani- Touching lives of people through service

By: Reshma Jain When Kamal Nayak came across daily wage earners, (especially women) from Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand and noticed that they did n...

Selfless Giving is the Art of Living

By: Reshma Jain ‘An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves’, goes a saying and Harendra Singh Jodha proves...

Saving lives with Gift of blood

By:Reshma Jain Only 20 minutes of your time and 250 cc of your blood, may make the difference between life and death. Meet Pilla Venkata Ramana ...

Beauty with a purpose

By: Reshma Jain “The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk”, goes an adage and if this should suit a person, then it ...

Centre for Rights Activism

By Reshma Jain: At a time when young graduates dream of making their career graph and look at their prospective career growth, Akhil Ennamsetty ...

By: Reshma Jain When Sanjana Dixit celebrated her 16th birthday in an orphanage in Bangalore, little did she know that she would be impacting th...

Padma Shri Chaiwala

By: Reshma Jain From a Chaiwala to a Padma Shri awardee, 62-year-old Devarapalli Prakash Rao from Cuttack shares his interesting life journey du...

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ― Mahatma Gandhi On this Environ...

Youth Climate Save Movement India

By Reshma Jain: “I knew about the school strikes from the day Greta Thunberg first started striking in Sweden. I knew that sometime in the...

Around 3 years ago, Jyoti Kumar, a 35 year old born and brought up in Dhanbad,Jharkhand was struggling hard to get pious A2 milk for his pregnant w...

Animal Warrior Conservation Society

Pradeep was just another animal lover until the day when he saw a monkey near his window trapped in a tree at 60 feet height, and he couldn't h...

These days every parent aspires for their child to make it big, to see their dreams being fulfilled in their child, and to work towards providing t...

Romita was diagnosed with cancer when she was only 13. The next two years were a period of intense struggle due to excruciating physica...

The Second Chance Project

After losing a loved one to an organ failure, Radhika Joshi conducted extensive research on organ donation in India at the tender age of 17. During...

Wasudev Mishra, Founder, Silaigram hailing from Pulgaon, a town in Wardha district, was a bystander of poverty and unemployment. He was surrounded ...

Sankalp- Ek Prayas

Parimal Sinha, founding member of Sankalp- Ek Prayas, was committed to work for the education of underprivileged children. To fulfil his dream, he ...

Despite limited means, 23-year-old Mohan Rathod has always desired to help the poor and the helpless in society. Having spent his childhood in a sl...

A Little Ray of Hope!

Day after day, fifteen-year-old Lavanya Varshney would hear news of how stubble burning was increasing the pollution level in the air. She hails fr...

Milte hain during lockdown

The whole world has come to a standstill since February 2020 with the COVID-19 pandemic. It is not expected to abate any time in near future. The s...

A silver lining amid a dark cloud

Akriti Gupta’s father was diagnosed with cancer! The family was shattered. But Akriti soon realised that the dreaded disease cannot overpower...

WHhen gods descent on earth- COVID19 Heroes

The COVID crisis is a testing time for people across the world. Despite the grave danger it presents, some noble people are committed to volunteer ...

Shiksha Se Shikhar Tak

Rajani Joshi is a living example of how one flame can light up the world. While working at the Health Ministry in Delhi, she also completed her Mas...

Tiny Tails Home

This is the inspiring story of Delhi-born Harsha who grew up among pets, mainly dogs. This provided a natural learning of love, care and loya...

An alumni of the prestigious Indian School of Mines, Prabhat Saxena, presently works as a senior reservoir engineer with a multinational oil compan...

It all began with the secret dream of one man. Prakash Pandey hails from a poor family that lives in a remote village in Bihar. His early chi...

The Hustler Team

Entrepreneurship isn't a key term that is only confined to the struggle and challenges faced by an individual person, but it is also a parameter th...

Barun Paul had always been actively involved in the social causes around him. He was determined to dedicate his life towards the upliftment of soci...

Lavanya Gudelli Lavanya Gudelli, a 20-year-old student, belongs to an extremely orthodox family in which girls are married off at an early age,...

Sanskriti School of Excellence

Where most people only think of doing something to provide free education for slum kids and underprivileged sections of the society there are a few...

Bring Smile Organization

SELFLESS SERVICE TOWARDS HUMANITY FROM A TENDER AGE OF 13 Countless souls are starving to death around each corners of the world. There are nume...

BY SETTING UP "DRISTI", THIS DUO IS IMPLANTING RURAL INDIA WITH EDUCATION, TECHNOLOGY & AWARENESS Vikas Pandey and Shubhanshu Shekhar Shukla Est...

# Socio story has caused many hearths to lit up and many households to subsist by way of myriad social upliftment, food programs and many more as a...

Love Heals Cancer

Nitesh and Dimple are two names of one soul. The concept of soulmates seems like a farfetched one in today's materialistic world until you look at ...

Sheetal always aspired to do something meaningful with her life. She graduated from Delhi University with an M.Phil. degree and landed a job with t...

A 13+ years of veteran in CSR, Lavina Sequera is a co-founder of SOIL, a social initiative that provides a foothold to the decaying artisans and cr...