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Pages in category "Indian social entrepreneurs" The following 81 pages are in this category, out of 81 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
A social entrepreneur is an entrepreneur who works to increase social capital by founding social ventures, including charities, for-profit businesses with social causes, and other non-government organizations. These types of activities are distinct from work of non-operating foundations and philanthropists who provide funding and other support ...
Chetna Gala Sinha (born 1958) is an Indian social entrepreneur working to empower women in areas of rural India by teaching entrepreneurial skills, access to land and means of production. [ 1 ] Sinha and six other women chaired the 48th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland in January 2018.
Arunachalam Muruganantham (born 12 October 1961) also known as Padman is a social entrepreneur from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India.He is the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad-making machine and is credited for innovating grassroots mechanisms for generating awareness about traditional unhygienic practices around menstruation in rural India.
Sindhutai Sapkal, affectionately known as the "Mother of Orphans", is an Indian social worker and social activist known particularly for her work in raising orphaned children in India. She has adopted more than 1800orphans .She was conferred a Doctorate in Literature by the DY Patil Institute of Technology and Research in 2016.
This is an annotated list of social enterprises sufficiently notable to have a Wikipedia article, in alphabetical order. For quick navigation, click on one of the letters: For quick navigation, click on one of the letters:
Ria Sharma is a social activist and the first Indian to receive the UNICEF Global Goals Awards for 2017. [2] [3] Sharma is the founder of NGO Make Love Not Scars that works in all aspects of rehabilitation for acid attack survivors in India. [4] Sharma also founded the world's first rehabilitation centre for acid attack survivors [5] in the world.