Traditionally, indigenous practices have ensured the health of farmlands and maintained fertility of soil. Adding farmyard manure, rotating crops, sprinkling ash, and many other such techniques have kept India's soils - which have always been low in nitrogen - at an optimum level of fertility.

Worms & Farm Waste, and the art of vermicomposting, are providing farmers with more sustainable and environmentally friendly methods of fertilizing fields, whilst simultaneously helping them build viable businesses to diversify and bolster incomes.

Ram Jethabhai Mulubhai has made some bold decisions in his life. On completion of 12th standard, he enrolled himself in a 5-year Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, and decided to become an artist! Pretty bold for a humble farmer’s son!

Sports in the tiny hamlet of Bulladewala, is something reserved for senior kids – Primary school children don’t play.

The women in Mehma Sawai were having a lot of issues with their health, but with the Primary Health Centre located 4 km away and without transport, they sat back and ignored it.

The savvy women of Saraswati Mahila Bachat Gat SHG have found a niche enterprise – producing and sourcing neem oil and Dash Parni – for local cotton farmers looking for natural ways to keep crop pests at bay.

A 24-year-old revolutionary from Chirawa, Rajasthan, is taking on the likes of TVS and Bajaj – leaders in India’s competitive 2-wheeler segment – by kickstarting his own e-scooter assembly business.

When Hari Singh was just 16 years old, he lost his hand in a fodder chopping machine. It took his parents almost 1.5 hours to reach the nearest hospital on their only vehicle – a tractor! But the gentle Hari is far from bitter about it. Despite his challenges, he has become a passionate advocate of organic farming - dedicating his life to educating farmers about it.

Something different is afoot in Gir Somnath. An area prone to salinity and water scarcity, villagers across 15 villages have come together with Ambuja Foundation to enhance their water literacy and security.

Rural India accounts for nearly 69% of the total population, yet only has 26% of total hospital beds and 33% of total healthcare professionals. A popular way in the past to address this vast need, whilst ensuring last mile reach, was the Mobile Medical Van (MVM) model – with both the government, and private NGOs like ACF, running MVM programs to tackle pressing rural health needs.

Navjot Singh is a much-loved personality around the streets of Alampur, where he is seen daily delivering goods on his cycle rickshaw. People fondly refer to him as ‘Navjot Cycle Rickshaw Walla.’ But this was not always the case. When he was born with intellectual disability and bilateral claw hand and foot deformity, local people shied away – speaking in hushed tones they would say hurtful comments like ‘what a burden for the family!’ and ‘how can they manage with his behaviour?’

Villagers of Arjuni live nestled on the fringes of the Barnawapara forest and are primarily Adivasi tribals – relying on the gifts of the forest for their livelihoods. Here, the primary source of income is found in weaving traditional bamboo products – baskets, brooms, fans and other household utility and decorative items.