Jeroo Billimoria is the founder of Childline India, a 24-hour emergency telephone service for India's street children, providing access to police assistance and health care. Trained as a social worker, she established several nonprofits in India to serve the needs of street children before starting Childline India in 1995. Since then Childline has responded to over 8 million calls for assistance. In 2004, Jeroo Billimoria became the Executive Director of Child Helpline International, which acts as a helpdesk for existing child helplines in countries all around the world, and provides child helpline services in impoverished countries where this type of resource doesn't exist. CHI now works in 150 countries! Jeroo Billimoria next created Child Savings International (now called Aflatoun) which is a global network of school based clubs that teach children how to plan and save for the future in order to break the cycle of poverty. For her tireless social entrepreneur work she has received recognition from Ashok: Innovators for the Public and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship as well as the Skoll Foundation For Social Entrepreneurship Award which includes a major financial grant.

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