Seema Waghmode
Seema is giving a new lease of life to commercial sex workers for the past 25 years. Supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seema-led NGO Kayakalpa in Pune is rescuing commercial sex workers and their children by providing them with regular health check-ups, food, education, and shelter.
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Other Winners
Reji Thomas – A Father to 28 HIV-positive children
Mumtaz Chand Patel – A Mother knows no religion
Bhargsetu Sharma – A Braveheart and animal rescuer
Reshma Pathan – India’s First Stunt Woman
Pushpa Preeya – A Penman for the specially abled
Gulafsha Ansari – Bend it like Gulafsha!
Sufiya Shaikh – You don’t need to give birth to be a mother!
Ketan Chodvadiya – Surat Hero who saved several from a burning building