Anuradha Kapoor

Founder

Founder of Swayam

Anuradha Kapoor is the founder of Swayam [1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children and human rights from Kolkata.

Swayam

Swayam is a feminist nonprofit in Kolkata providing direct support to women survivors of violence and their families, alongside community education, awareness campaigns and advocacy work aimed at building violence-free communities.

Swayam reports the following, on its own site:

1,478 women survivors of violence provided support services in 2019-20 (714 new cases and 764 continuing from previous years)
300 campaigns and awareness programmes conducted, reaching 6,75,880 people over three years (April 2014 - March 2017)