There is also a mother in me who doesn’t want to see people hungry. I can’t help but go ahead and make provisions to feed them. – Shanthi Chauhan

Umarani Padmanabhan has not kept a list of the number of people she has helped over the years, but she remembers that she started volunteering some thirty years ago. “I do not keep a count of the people I help. That’s not the focus anyways.”

Garima Poonia talks about her life in and out of the Andaman Islands, and what makes her a waste picker, an unusual passion.