LEAD Stories

Leader Shweta from Bapuji Polytechnic College, Davangere was recently struggling to pay her rent and often had to rely on her peers and parents to cover bills. She had to do something to ensure that she could be financially free. As a little girl, Shweta learned how to dance classically a talent up until this point of her life she had not capitalized on. With the help of the LEAD program, Shweta was able to overcome her fears and build a now thriving business of teaching classical dance to children. With mentors from the...

An upbringing in an environment that supports social work produces the best citizen of the society. LEADer Asavari Devalapurkar comes from such a background. During her school days, she was part of a club that overlooked many social works such as plantations of saplings, Swach Bharath etc. When she joined engineering at VSM institute of Technology Nipani, LEAD came to knock at her door. An orientation program conducted by LEAD at her college began this unsurpassed journey of her life. The speeches given by various LEADers inspired her on that...

Can you imagine Earth without Trees? 13 million hectares of trees (forest) have been cleared for other uses or by natural disaster. By the year 2030, we might only have 10% of our forests left and if we don’t stop cutting down trees, they could all be gone in 100 years. To address this problem LEADer Santosh from RYMEC College, Ballari took an initiative of planting saplings under the name Project Green City.   Firstly he approached his college and got rejected. He did not stop or neither rested. He...

Do you feel the unpredictable weather change every day? Global warming has become a threat to all mankind. It is now one of the primary concerns of our civilized world. We have to admit that we are the great contributor in the rapid increase of temperature in our environment. And we must be aware to the cause and effects of global warming. Trees and other plants help in reducing heat in our surroundings. It removes harmful chemicals from the soil and reduced the greenhouse gases, as it absorbed carbon dioxide...