Hard work leads to success, but sometimes, one does not know which path to take. This is where a mentor can help. Rasika Kadam has turned such a mentor for thousands of people, mainly women from slums, villages and tribal areas. She helps housewives exercise their right to work, gets widows to become financially independent, and even solves the illegal street vendor issue, successfully turning their lives around.

Kadam helps women who are even scared to talk to strangers, to turn into outgoing grassroots entrepreneurs through Entrepreneurship Development camps she holds for YouthAid Foundation. Since moving to Mumbai in 2021 from Pune, she has helped 7,000 people  move from a life of majboori (compulsion) towards financial independence and purpose, by starting a  micro/ nano or small business. Kadam completed MSW and become a social worker as she cannot see that people’s potential is getting wasted, “it just takes little knowledge to change”.