Probably the biggest Social Worker-Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan has been involved in many social works. Amitabh donated ₹11 lakh (US$17,000) to clear the debts of nearly 40 beleaguered farmers in Andhra Pradesh.
He also donated ₹30 lakh (US$47,000) to clear the debts of some 100 Vidarbha farmers.
In 2010, he donated ₹11 lakh (US$17,000) for Resul Pookutty's foundation, for a medical centre at Kochi.
Amitabh Bachchan donated ₹2.5 lakh (US$3,900) to Delhi Police constable Subhash Chand Tomar's family, who died after succumbing to injuries during anti gang-rape protest for 2012 Delhi gang rape.
He opened a Harivansh Rai Bachchan Memorial Trust, or HRB Memorial Trust in his father's name in 2013.
Amitabh Bachchan was made UNICEF goodwill ambassador for the polio Eradication Campaign in India in 2002, when 1,556 polio cases were detected that year.On 27 March 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared India a polio free country with no case of disease being reported in the previous three years. In 2013,
Amitabh and his family donated ₹25 lakh (US$39,000) to charitable trust Plan India, that works for the betterment of the girl child in India. Amitabh Bachchan donated ₹11 lakh (US$17,000) to the Maharashtra Police Welfare Fund in 2013. Amitabh was the face of the 'Save Our Tigers' campaign that promoted the importance of tiger conservation in India.
Amitabh also supported PETA India's campaign to free Sunder, a 14-year-old elephant who was chained and tortured in a temple in Kolhapur, Maharashtra.After the elephant was freed and rehabilitated in Bannerghatta National Park in Bangalore, he was reported to tweet, "@PetaIndia has turned elephant Sunder’s home into free-roaming, forested sanctuary... feeling good I contributed to this cause!"
In 2014, it was announced that he had recorded his voice and lent his image to the Hindi and English language versions of the TeachAIDS software, an international HIV/AIDS prevention education tool developed at Stanford University.
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