"If entrepreneurship is a difficult life, social entrepreneurship can be more difficult," says Neelam Gupta, founder of the AROH Foundation in India.
"My parents found it'stupid' to think of charity when we could barely survive with my father's meagre salary."
So she set out to change that in 2001 with her foundation, which focuses on skill development, livelihood generation, access to basics, education, health, water, and sanitation, and vast holistic rural development projects in over 18 Indian states, reports SocialStory.
Today, the foundation has built over 10,000 individual household units, 6,000 solar-powered street lights, and 250 solar water filtration units in more than 100 Indian villages, enabling them to access water and sanitation.
"The vision is for the empowerment of the underprivileged and deprived communities and to see their development creates a productive force for the process of national development," says Gupta.
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