A girl whose profession is journalism, but passion is social service. She has accepted social service as her life vow. In today’s society, many women feel hesitant to talk about menstrual cramps openly but she calls women to buy sanitary napkins for use. She feels the real problems of many menstruators. She is known as a Pad woman of Odisha.
Not only that. As a journalist, she tries to bring people’s problems to the public through media and also tries to help people being a social worker. She has created a special identity in society by being involved in the happiness of others and standing with people by helping them. She is none other than, she is Ankita Sahoo from Dadhisinga village of Kabera panchayat, Gondia block of Dhenkanal District.
At which age youth dream about colourful life, Ankita has created a special identity through engaging in social work. As a journalist, Ankita was determined to reach out to the people and as a social worker. She helps the suffering of the neglected and helpless in society. She was also finding ways to solve the problems around her. She has got self-satisfaction, motivation and inspiration to keep going in her work.
She provides many essential items to needy people in different areas and organizes many programs to educate women on menstrual hygiene. Not now, but for almost 12 years, she has been creating awareness among women and distributing more than 60.000 sanitary napkins from her own income.
Even during the flood situation in Odisha, she reached to the needy by boat and distributed napkin pads in the affected area. She arranges workshops in the school level to make awareness programs on women’s hygiene. Even she was awarded by Centre Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan & Honorable Speaker of Odisha (2012) Sri Surya Narayan Patra for her contribution towards women’s hygiene and sensitization. Recently Ankita Won Women’s Achiever Of Odisha 2013 Award. For Her dedication to this sector, She was Featured in National Prestigious Program Good News India.
Really Ankita has become a friend of the helpless and the poor. During covid-19 pandemic, she stepped out of her house to help others and became a front line warrior. Along with this she distributed free smartphones to underprivileged and needy students’. Not only this but also at the administrative level to help people and to claim the right to solve every problem she has created a twitter club. Through this club Ankita is able to take people’s problems to the administrative level very easily. In future she has a dream to work in women empowerment.
Featured image credit: Ankita Sahoo’s Twitter