RIA SHARMA is the founder of the NGO Make Love Not Scars (MLNS), which has since 2014 rehabilitated over sixty acid-attack survivors and significantly contributed towards the awareness around the sale of acid and acid attacks in India. Their campaign #EndAcidSale won a Gold Cannes Lion in film in 2016. And MLNS became the first NGO to win Brand of the Year at the CNBC-TV18 Indian Business Leader Awards. In 2017 Ria became the first Indian to receive the United Nations Bill and Melinda Gates GoalKeepers Global Goals Award; in 2018 she featured on Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 and was named on India Today’s ‘50 most influential women under 50’ list.