Simona Adhikari

Simona Adhikari is currently a high school student in Charlotte, NC. She first became involved with smartketi in 2014. While visiting Manthali, she came up with the idea to teach young rural women a way to earn money. She selected 24 young women and led a one-day training session where she taught these women how to make a wrap bracelet from local materials. She then set up a system where women could make these bracelets and earn money for their efforts. Simona arranged for the bracelets to be sold in the US and the UK. She called this project 'smartbracelet.' To date, she has raised over $7,000 from the smartbracelet project and continues to promote this income generation project. She has presented her project at various conferences throughout the US. On the side, Simona also manages the social media for smartketi organization.