
Sanjina Gupta is the founder of Rangeen Khidki Foundation[1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children and healthcare from Kolkata.
Sanjina Gupta is an Indian sexuality educator and the founder and chief executive of the Rangeen Khidki Foundation, a youth-led feminist organisation based in Kolkata that works on gender justice and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Career
Gupta is a consultant on sexual and reproductive health and rights and a trained menstrual health facilitator, and has worked in health and education for more than a decade. She has worked in rural Bengal and Bihar and in Mumbai and Maharashtra, and runs workshops on menstrual health, gender equity and comprehensive sexuality education for schools and other organisations. She has been a Changeloomer with Pravah, a Changemaker with ARROW for Women, and a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum.
Rangeen Khidki began its work in 2020, starting with a community at Panchanantala in Kolkata during the COVID-19 pandemic, and works with young people and women in both urban and rural areas on gender and sexuality, sexual and reproductive health and rights, mental health, education and life skills. Its programmes include Period Adda, which works with adolescent girls on menstrual health and trains them as change agents and has run in Goalbati village in South 24 Parganas since 2021; My Body My Rights, on bodily autonomy and informed decision-making; Project Tamanna; Project Priyo; and a consulting, research and capacity-building practice.[2][3][4]
Rangeen Khidki Foundation
Rangeen Khidki Foundation is a youth-led feminist organisation based in Kolkata working on sexual and reproductive health and rights with adolescents and young people, alongside the parents, teachers and other adults around them. It says it has run over 300 trainings reaching more than 41,000 people directly over five years, using a rights-based approach to gender justice and empowerment.
Rangeen Khidki Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- 12,000+ adolescent girls reached
- 28,000+ menstruators reached through #PeriodsInPandemic
- 300+ trainings and workshops conducted
- 500+ stakeholders, parents, teachers and community leaders reached
Inspired by Sanjina's work?
Support Rangeen Khidki Foundation











