[1][2] FVF has helped 3.5 million Indians out of poverty, focusing on women.
While working for the paper, she interviewed the civil rights leader Vicente Ferrer Moncho and eventually joined the Citizens for Justice Committee which he started.
They married in April 1970 and had three children, Tara, Moncho and Yamuna.
[6] She and her husband worked together, building and developing the organization until his death ten years ago, when she took over.
[7] She works to improve the situation of Indian women and to help them to achieve positions of responsibility.