Sukarma Foundation is a volunteer-driven non-profit organization working on improving the lives of rural Indians. Key initiatives (or Karmas) by the foundation include educating women about the importance of female hygiene and sexual health, empowering them through employment opportunities via sustainable businesses, providing telemedicine facility to people in remote areas with a want of timely quality medical assistance, making basic education available to children and adults from impoverished sections of the Indian rural population and many more. Sukarma believes in making a sustainable positive impact in people’s lives by driving grass-root change and enabling people to help themselves.

So far, we have achieved a lot of things in terms of awareness in tribal villages, towns, colleges and girls’ hostels. People have started talking about periods; at least, they are able to listen to conversations about menstrual hygiene and reproductive issues without any shame or shyness. During this “PADWOMAN awareness campaign” in 15 districts, we have reached out to approximately 20,000 girls and women from 10,000 different villages in a radius of around 8000 kilometers. Villagers are welcoming us and embracing us with open hearts. We have our representatives in 15 districts, who can take this program to other villages. Our next target is to reach out to 8 tribal districts in Madhya Pradesh.

The foundation is registered in California, USA, as a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization with tax ID 82-2520356, with members of the nonprofit spread through India, USA, Netherlands and several other countries. Sukarma Foundation’s India branch is also a registered non-governmental organization (NGO) in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. Donations to the Sukarma foundation are tax-deductible in the USA