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Popularly known as the "Clothing Man", social entrepreneur Anshu Gupta created a mass movement for recycling and reusing tons of waste material by establishing a culture of sustained donations from urban, wealthy India and its impoverished rural areas. His organization, GOONJ.., has a mechanism for second-hand clothes and goods to pass from the wealthy to the poor, tackling a very basic and often neglected human need while also reducing waste. Ashoka video intro and longer video.

TEDIndia Ever since founding the first truly effective ambulance service in India, Shaffi Mather has been hooked on social enterprises. He's gone on to set up inclusive high-quality schools, support small-scale dairy farming, and is now launching a bribe-fighting business. video.