Meera Marthi | Source | CEO & Co-founder at Where Are India's Children (WAIC)

As CEO & Co-founder of Where Are India's Children, Meera works alongside her colleagues to drive positive outcomes in the best interest of the child through sustainable solutions. WAIC has been making a significant impact on the ground by moving eligible children into the legal adoption pool, potentially leading them to a forever family. They employ technology-enabled fieldwork as an approach to addressing this massive problem. WAIC advocates for policy changes in the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act so that more children in shelters can be evaluated for adoption eligibility and drives public awareness campaigns like #SafeSurrender to educate people about the importance of surrendering children instead of abandoning them or gradually abandoning them.