Anshul Tewari

And that blog became Youth Ki Awaaz, or Voice of the Youth, India's largest citizen media platform, where today, more than 200,000 young people are writing on issues that are deeply underrepresented every single month.

And this was not just young people coming together and ranting.

This was young people coming together and telling stories that were not being told anywhere.

So let me tell you about Ashwini.

Ashwini was a medical student studying in the state of Rajasthan, and he had this phenomenal habit.

Every single summer break, he would go to the closest village and provide free medical services.

So he went to this village called Rajghat, a couple of kilometers away from the city of Jaipur in India.

And when he went there, what he found was far more than a medical crisis.

There was absolutely no clean drinking water, there were no proper roads, there was no electricity, and he realized that there were no schools at all.

And no weddings had taken place in the last 22 years because nobody wanted to send their daughters to a village which was so impoverished.

Imagine a village of single men.

But like I said, Ashwini saw this as more than just a medical crisis.

He wanted to do so much more for Rajghat.

So he collaborated with us and he told the story of Rajghat on Youth Ki Awaz.

It slowly and steadily began picking attention.

Thousands of people found out about Rajghat.

NGOs came there.

The first time in many years, decision-makers came to Rajghat.

And...

support began to rally.