Sumitra Magrati was awarded Swayamsewak award 2021 by United Nation Nepal, also nominated on 100 Most Influential Young People Award list for 2020. She was also awarded 30 Top Most Beautiful Women Award 2020 by Talklove Africa. She was selected among 20 amazing young girl from Nepal for YWPLI 2020-2021 of Women LEAD Nepal and currently doing mentorship of Current batch of YWPLI 2021-2022. She is currently doing her MBA in Federation University, Sydney Australia. She has completed Master degree in Sociology from tribhuwan University 2021. As an education field officer, Ms. Magrati has been leading alone more than 80 government school of rural, Himalayan and very remote part of Okhadhunga District, Nepal. She has been involving in organizing, planning, implementing, monitoring and reporting in various programs. At first she led 10 government schools on the area of girl empowerment and maintains GESI in school and societies. She was able to make impact on 10 school's student's life by providing training regarding life skills for instance leadership, public speaking, negotiating, problem solving, questioning and so on and also about Self Defense by teaching some quick steps, provided awareness about good touch, bad touch, sexual harassment, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation, about reproductive and menstrual health. This year she has been leading Okhaldhunga district on the "Promoting stability in Education project which denotes different module like Radio education, Remedial teaching learning, Disaster management training and training to Child Club, Parents, Teacher, Head Teacher and Local representatives.
Ms Magrati is social activist too, she has led different campaign as She is the co-initiator of Dalit Dignity First where she is advocating on Dalit issues, led her own district Gorkha in "Ajhai kati sahanay " campaign where she was fighting for the growing rate of sexual exploitation in order to draw attention of government to take action, led different campaign regarding caste-based discrimination. She has been highly supportive and enthusiastic in all the activities ad carries on good relationship with all staffs.
She is one of the influential youths of our nation who has always been speaking for the voiceless who are deprived of basic facilities for instance her Dalit community. She currently has been working as Global Goodwill Ambassadors for Nepal on Humanitarian Work, youth Ambassador of International youth society. She is active youth activist and Campaigner of Bagmati Cleaning up Mega Campaign of Nepal.
In the course of her work Ms. Magrati was found to have good coordinating skills with having leadership, hard-working, peace-loving, dedicated, honest, courageous and courteous attributions.
Her Message:
“I want to be the change that I want to see. Any discrimination on the ground of caste, gender, race and class are against human rights and humanity. Since my childhood, I have seen caste and gender-based discrimination. Specially the whereabouts of my Dalit community is vulnerable, the untouchability that Dalit people have been facing for so long, they were deprived of many things and still practiced discrimination in our society. So, I want to be the change maker so that I could be able to make a difference in people's lives by empowering them.” – Sumitra Magrati
