Raipur, Aug. 5 -- For nearly two decades, Rupa Sahu, a Divyang community health worker from Baroda village in Abhanpur block of Raipur district, has been ensuring that children are protected against polio. A polio survivor herself, Sahu has dedicated her life to public health as a Mitanin, Chhattisgarh's community health worker, since 2006. During this period, she has helped administer polio vaccine drops to more than 5,000 children.

Driven by her own experience of living with a disability caused by polio, Sahu says she joined the Mitanin programme with a single mission to ensure that no child has to face the difficulties she has faced.

"Ever since I became a Mitanin, I had one goal: that no child should ever have to suffer the pain I w...