Sagarika D

Having volunteered with other organizations on gender and development issues, Sagarika found a need for more youth-led initiatives in the North East. Through ‘Maan Ki Umeed’, Sagarika and her 40-member team have been focusing on enrolling slum kids to primary schools and organizing various capacity-building programs for them. As of May 2022, the team led by Sagarika has been able to reach more than 500 girls and women from rural and underprivileged areas, donate over 15,000 sanitary napkins during the Assam floods of 2020, and provide food ration kits to over 1500 families during Covid-19 pandemic covering 4 districts of Assam.