Poonam started Uddip Social Welfare Society to help physically challenged people. "This recognition will help me work harder for people in need," she says.

1. TINY STEPS, GIANT STRIDES!
Poonam Shroti
Founder, Uddip Foundation

2. An MBA in Finance
with a Post Graduate
Diploma in Personnel
Management, Poonam
was qualified, talented
and educated but still
could not get a decent
job like “normal”
people

3. Suffering from Osteogenesis
Imperfecta, Poonam is just a
little over two feet in height
but this did not stop her from
positively impacting the lives
of many. She converted her
disability into an opportunity
and started an organization to
help the people around her.

4. Poonam started Uddip Social Welfare Society to help physically challenged people.
"This recognition will help me work harder for people in need," she says.
Uddip Social Welfare Society has started a campaign ‘CanDo’ for the empowerment of
disabled individuals.

5. Poonam has also begun focusing
on blood donations and
livelihoods. She has concentrated
her efforts in rural areas, having
completed a survey of one village
already. She wants to make the
women self sufficient by providing
them with livelihood options.

6. Tiny Poonam has taken
tiny steps, but soon these will
become giant strides. Her joint
family, and a huge circle of
friends, keep motivating and
encouraging Poonam.

7. As Poonam states, “If one’s
willpower is strong, one is
propelled to action, and when
one takes that action, the
path ahead becomes clear.”