There is never a right age to start thinking about society and how one can better it. Sanjana Runwal, who is a 17-year-old student at Dhirubhai Ambani International School, is doing the same by launching an app, which will help sanitation workers, and garbage and ragpickers understand the process of applying for a home loan in four easy steps.

Runwal is also the co-founder of the Clean-Up Foundation with her brother Sidharth. The brother-sister duo started this NGO in 2016 when they noticed garbage workers in Bandra during their evening walks. “We saw them picking up garbage without any safety equipment,” recalls Runwal, who was directed to the Bandra ward office by their father. Chandrakant Tambe, the ward officer at the time, admitted that there weren’t any stringent safety provisions in place for the workers. “Nobody really notices them,” says Runwal. “And that was a trigger for both of us.”