Know Our Awardees
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Amma Andhua Patashala - Blind School
Education
Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh
Established 20 years ago in Kurnool, Amma Andhula Patashala provides free accommodation, food, and medical care to 36 blind school and college students from impoverished families. Supported by Jana Chaitanya Yuvajana Abhyudaya Sangham, its aim is to empower these students for a prosperous future.
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The Banyan
Mental Health
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Founded in 1993 by Mrs. Vandana Gopikumar and Ms. Vaishnavi Jay Kumar, The Banyan rehabilitates mentally challenged and neglected women. With a success rate of over 5,000 cases, it operates 16 centers across three states, serving over 100,000 people. The organization provides medicinal remedies, physical exercises, job training, and public events. Its goal is to establish sustainable care models addressing various mental health needs, from emergency medical care to long-term support.
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Rescue Foundation for Girls & Women
Trafficking
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Established in 2000 by Lata and Mr. Balkrishna Acharya, Rescue Foundation has saved over 5000 girls from sex trafficking. Operating in Maharashtra and Delhi, they rescue and rehabilitate girls from multiple cities, offering health check-ups, counseling, and nutrition upon rescue. With a vast network, they approach girls, obtain consent, inform police, file FIRs, and conduct rescue operations.
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Ananda Shiksha Niketan
Education
Murshidabad, West Bengal
Named the youngest headmaster in the world' by BBC in October 2009, at the age of 16, Babar Ali is an Indian student and teacher from Murshidabad, West Bengal. He started a school, Ananada Siksha Niketan-Home of joyful leaming, in his backyard when he was just 9-years- old, now with 300 regular students. There is no tuition fees, thus making it affordable for the poor in this economically deprived area, and thereby helping increase literacy rate there. Six of the school's students joined them as teachers to give back what they had leamt as students.
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Janahita-Vatsalya
Education & Shelter
Nellore, Andhra Pradesh
Janahita is a trust that works to provide care and love to the destitutes under various projects. Under Vatsalya, orphan kids are given home and shelter and a free school is rum for them. Other poor and downtrodden children join these kids in the free school. They also run an old age home for neglected elders. They provide free vocational courses for women in tailoring and stitching. thus helping them to be self employed.
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Dev Animal Voluntary Organisation (DAVO)
Shelter
New Delhi
DAVO is an award-winning, registered Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), operating primarily in Delhi and NCR. It has over 25 years of experience in the issues affecting poor women, children, animals and adolescents from some of the most disadvantaged areas of India. They are running two homes for the homeless, one in Dwarka, Delhi with 60 inmates and another one in Sonipat with 70 inmates. They focus their work on nutrition, health care and education.

Sri Guru Deva Charitable Trust
Differently-Abled
Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh
SGCT has been serving to improve quality of life of the poor, sick and disabled persons for over a decade. Among the extraordinary services they do, they run an artificial limb center and has till now provided artificial limbs to 1500 people. They also run a old age home with 100 inmates.

Genesis Foundation
Healthcare
Gurugram, Haryana
Genesis Foundation facilitates medical treatment for critically ill under-privileged children suffering with Congenital Heart Defects. GF, so far, has supported medical treatment of over 1550 critically ill children. The children supported by the Foundation belong to families with a monthly income of less than Rs. 10,000 per month.
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Vivekananda Bharathi Ashrama
Shelter
Hyderabad, Telangana
Vivekananda Bharathi Ashrama non-profit, non-political, independent social voluntary organization, committed for welfare of the people without any consideration of caste, creed, community, race or religion. It has been striving to give a life of hopefulness to orphans, children, disabled and other deprived people who have always been ignored in the community.
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Navajeevan Blind Relief Centre
Differently-Abled
Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh
Navajeevan Blind Relief Centre has so far rehabilitated 10400 blind and orphan chidren, provided 170600 vision impaird children with education support. They run a free school for blind children, free eye hospital, and an old age home.
