User:Anurag Amartya Barthwal

Sadhvi Bhagwati, formerly a US citizen, Phoebe Garfield, is the international director of Parmarth Niketan’s Youth Education Services. She runs the Parmarth Shiksha Mandir that has adopted many deprived children and educates and helps them find jobs.

Phoebe Garfield was 25 years old and doing her PhD in clinical psychology when she first decided to come to India on a trip. She came to know about Rishikesh thorough a Lonely Planet guide-book and reached that place. On arriving in Rishikesh, at the banks of the Ganga, she felt she was here for a purpose. She felt she had no option but to listen to the insistent call of her inner voice.