A passionate social worker, Anixa comes from a very small village in South Gujarat. After completing her Bachelor’s in Social Work from Sardar Patel University and Masters in Social Work from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, she started her career working with Unnati, Ahmedabad for three years. She has been associated with cohesion for last 1.5 year. and looks after our Social Securities programme in the tribal landscape of South Gujarat. During her tenure at Cohesion, she has developed deep understanding of MGNREGA and other welfare schemes/ entitlements in the tribal context and how these can be leveraged to maximise the benefit received by the poor households. A tribal herself she has been able to connect to the issues of the area she is working in and she sets a very good example of a tribal youth working for the cause of tribal development.