Give(@GiveIndia):In a quiet village near Amravati, in Maharashtra, an elderly farmer has changed hundreds of lives. Since 1990, Shankarbaba Papalkar, 83, has sheltered children with disabilities abandoned by society, raising them as his own and giving each one his surname for identity.

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2026.09.18 09:21

In a quiet village near Amravati, in Maharashtra, an elderly farmer has changed hundreds of lives. Since 1990, Shankarbaba Papalkar, 83, has sheltered children with disabilities abandoned by society, raising them as his own and giving each one his surname for identity.