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RASHMI MISRA An Indian youth teacher turned entrepreneur who is famous for founding VIDYA. An organization which is devoted to helping people reach and attain their educational goals despite lower income or poverty. She caters to mostly women, children, and the youth.

Biography
A wife, teacher, mother of two and grandmother of one. She grew up with an army background, she went to different schools and the last three years of her schooling was spent in Delhi. She graduated from Lady Shri Ram College. She would later go on to work for the Austrian embassy. She would later quit to volunteer her teaching services to those less fortunate. She is married to an Indian Institute of Technology professor.

Education
graduated from Lady Shri Ram College

Career and Work
She taught in Germany for approximately 10 years. She had the idea for VIDYA after walking and seeing a group of underprivileged kids playing in sewage and she wondered why they weren’t in school. This was when her idea of VIDYA sparked. She then went on to volunteer herself to teach these kids raising her own funds to do so.

Major Contributions
VIDYA She is the founder and chairperson of Vidya, which has three locations. They are located in Goa, Mumbai, and Delhi. She founded this organization to provide poor women and children who could not afford an education to be able to do so. They have been around for thirty-two years.