A Lifelong Advocate for Positive Change

Sukhiben is a Community Development Volunteer (CDV) with Sanchetana for many years. Her age is 67 years now and she is very active. Her husband aged 72 years and doesn’t earn. She has a son and daughter and they say that her husband has always been supportive to Sukhiben and never denied Sukhiben to participate in Sanchetana’s work. She began to participate in different programs of Sanchetana from the year 1997 in the Child and Nutrition Program, where she made food for malnourished children of the community and motivated mothers to do the same. She received health-related training in pre and postnatal care. Sukhiben, in early 2000, participated in the Adolescent Health Program of Sanchetana, in which she visited the home of many girls and talked to their parents. She grew slowly as a leader with her strong leadership skills. She formed a group of 10 women and helped them to open an account. Sanchetana has helped her to boost up her self-confidence. She took a loan of Rs. 10000 from our capital assistance program. She began to purchase the jewellery of Bagasara metal and sold it. Sanchetana gave her information and helped her reaching out to exhibitions and she could begin her small stall with the financial assistance she received. Today she is independent and in a much better change of her own life. It is her wish to remain associated with Sanchetana’s work in her whole life.