OFTEN one's calling to serve the community and make a difference is hampered by lack of resources. Plustrust nurture and support such individuals, particularly rural women and youth, to become change-makers.

Vibha Kumari's dreams of becoming a teacher were dashed when she did not get through the government Shikshamitra recruitment programme. But that didn’t deter her. She started tutoring children from nearby villages - from two the number grew to 40.

With her obvious talent - and passion - for teaching she was employed by a local NGO in her hometown of Birpur, Bihar. In 2018 they encouraged Vibha, now in her fifties, to apply for Plustrusts’s Rural Women’s Edupreneurship (RWE) fellowship - which she did, and has not looked back.