

Meet the recipients of
The Changemaker Awards 2022
Coming from diverse backgrounds, 15 young people, going above and beyond in their daily life to create and sustain positive change, are recognized with The Changemaker Awards 2022. This carefully selected cohort of young changemakers is changing the definition of 'success' for young people in an exponentially changing world.
Our cohort of The Changemaker Award recipients address wide-ranging issues: environment, gender, health, education, child rights, agriculture, arts & culture, and animal rights among others.
Having already identified the problems, built teams, and created positive change in their communities, these young changemakers are best positioned to steer the movement to spread the culture of changemaking and to reimagine how we define 'success' for individuals, communities, and countries.
Our Awardees

As part of the campaign against single-use plastic, Aditya petitioned Burger King to stop using single-use plastics in their restaurants. As the movement peaked traction the day before the protest, the fast-food giant declared it would no longer use single-use plastics in Burger King restaurants across India. Aditya has inspired countless young people to campaign on environmental and social issues through his work.






He has been closely following and working upon environment contributing issues and has been participating, volunteering, and campaigning with PRATYeK, Save The Children, UNICEF, Mash Project, and Let Me Breathe.




His other project ‘Sanjeewani’ is low cost, customized, smart personal assistant to cater to the personal, social, and intellectual needs of the disabled. This product is much more effective than the existing products in the market. It helps the users overcome the challenges posed by their physical disabilities and improve their lifestyles.

Saleha has made it her passion and mission in life, starting at a very young age of 12, to break the taboo around menstruation. Her exceptional contribution in various community welfare activities got her the most prestigious award - Savitribai Phule Award. She was also selected as an Ashoka Youth Venturer and was mentored in leadership skills for one year.

Shailendra is well-versed with the admission process and keeps constant contact with the principal and teachers in every school in his area. He conducts awareness campaigns with Children Groups wherein he enumerates and lists down out-of-school children and helps in enrolling them back to school. He has also raised his voice against corporal punishment in schools and has counseled several teachers on it.

Inspired by the statistic that 350 million pairs of footwear are discarded annually, she launched ‘Sole Warriors’, nonprofit collecting footwear from privileged communities and donating them to those in need. Over the past 18 months, they collected over 15,000 pairs from 4,000 households through a network of 50 volunteers and eight supporting organizations, with the ultimate aim to reach one million feet.

Her current initiative is ‘Project I Am Enough’, which aims at forming a community of youth, aiming to make this world a better place and implement self-love, all united against body shaming. The community-based initiative has a long-term vision in mind to bring like-minded voices against body shaming together and create a safe haven for discussion. The aim is to normalize bodies, spread awareness about body shaming and eating disorders in a creative, inclusive manner.