Alina Alam, India

Alina Alam

India

Alina is the founder of ‘Mitti Café' which is a chain of cafes that provides experiential training and employment to adults with physical ,intellectual and psychiatric disability. The organisation’s outreach initiative also helps create awareness about inclusion and disability rights. Mitti Cafés across India are managed by hundreds of adults with disability who have have in the last few years served over 6  million meals and beverages-thereby creating awareness about inclusion with every meal served.Their warriors with disability in this pandemic have cooked and served over 2 million meals to the poor and vulnerable communities and homeless groups,thereby proving the magic of abilities as a result of economic independence and dignity.

In the short span Alina has been featured in the Forbes list of 30 under 30 ,is a Commonwealth Youth Awardee and has won awards like the NCPEDEP Mindtree Hellen Keller Award,Times of India. She Unlimited Award ,Rotary Exemplar award ,Microsoft Nipman Award, Tiecon Young female Entrepreneur of the Year Award, amongst others.