About Sampada Trust

Sampada Trust began as an informal outreach program of Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) in 1998 to assist women and SHGs in the area of skills and capacity enhancement, for access to and acquisition of assets and resources.

Sampada Trust aims at empowering rural women by providing financial, entrepreneurial and customized services to women through their SHGs and village level Apex Bodies - Sanyukta Mahila Samittee (SMS) to take up quality of life enhancing measures and income-generating activities.

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Structure & Network

Asoke Basak

Chairman
Senior Government Official
Indian Administrative Service (IAS Retd.)

Marcella D'Souza

Founder & Managing Trustee
Former Programme Coordinator (Women's Development, Indo-German Watershed Development Programme)
M.B.B.S., Takemi Fellow (Harvard University)

Crispino Lobo

Executive Director
Former Programme Coordinator (Indo-German Watershed Development Programme)
Managing Trustee (WOTR)
M.A., MPA (Harvard University)

Anirudha Mirikar

Director
Entrepreneurship & Livelihood Expert