SocioStory · 75 stories
Stories of NGOs, social heroes, CSR teams and volunteers from across India. Every one is checked by an editor before it goes live.
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NGO storyWomen & girls
When food was being distributed to the brick kiln workers in Nagpur by the volunteers of ‘Seva Kitchen’ during the lockdown, they caught sight of a malnourished woman who was expecting a child. She was helpless and the volunteers…
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NGO storyWomen & girls
This mountain kid was ‘born into adventure’. Mountaineer Kaamya Karthikeyan was yet to open her eyes to the outside world, when her father Cdr S Karthikeyan was training with Indian Navy’s skydiving team for the World Military…
4 min read
NGO storyWomen & girls
When Priyadarshani Pawar took up cycling for exercise in 2017, buying herself a second-hand mountain bicycle, little did she know that her love for cycling will lead her into a Super Randonneur. Priyadarshani who is one among the…
5 min read
NGO storyWomen & girls
‘God gives the toughest battles to his strongest soldiers’, believes Pinkathon ambassador and functional strength trainer Farzana Begum from Visakhapatnam. From being stereotyped for wearing a hijab and training to battling life…
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NGO storyWomen & girls
June 21 marks an important day not only in India but the entire world. It is 'International Day of Yoga' and what better example other than Kushi who has created a ‘World Record’ under yogic practice for highest number of ‘Back…
4 min read
NGO storyWomen & girls
“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 out of the house. Confused, I called him. After a few seconds, he picked up and I realized that he was…
4 min read
NGO storyWomen & girls
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 wife, for which he had to travel 5-6 kilometers everyday from his home. It was then…
3 min read
NGO storyWomen & girls
Romita was diagnosed with cancer when she was only 13. The next two years were a period of intense struggle due to excruciating physical pain, loneliness long absence from school, loss of hair, and ultimately, confidence.…
2 min read
NGO storyWomen & girls
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 slum community in Mumbai, he has seen poverty at close quarters. He also grew up…
3 min read
Social heroWomen & girls
Wasudev Mishra, Founder, Silaigram hailing from Pulgaon, a town in Wardha district, was a bystander of poverty and unemployment. He was surrounded by a plethora of adversities. From the girls of his society who were compelled to…
3 min read
NGO storyWomen & girls
Lavanya Gudelli, a 20-year-old student, belongs to an extremely orthodox family in which girls are married off at an early age, and education and literacy are alien words. The fact that she is the only one among generations of…
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