Shweta Katti went from small school education, volunteering as an activist learning social work to New York’s Bard College where she is now on a full scholarship.

In 2012, Katti herself joined Kranti and started volunteering in Mumbai having completed her MA in Gender Studies at a University in Budapest. The same aimed towards granting girls from Mumbai’s red-light areas to become agents of social change.

Shweta Katti who grew up in a red light area of Mumbai has won a full scholarship to study in New York. She now wants to work towards the upliftment of marginalised girls.

The recipient of the 2014 United Nations Youth Courage Awards ceremony is a 19 year old, Indian girl, Shweta Katti, who comes from a red-light area in Mumbai. Winning a scholarship at Bard College in the US, with the help of an NGO, ‘Kranti’ that assists the daughters of sex-workers; Shweta went to the US to study last year, […]