Ringyuichon Vashum is President of the Participatory Action for Sustainable Development Organization based in the state of Manipur.

[1] In 2007, she began working to improve the lot of the women of the hills in the Ukhrul District in the north of Manipur, an area home to the Tangkhul Nagas.

[2] Vashum became the director of the Ukhrul District Women Institute of Micro-Credit (UDWIM) as part of the North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Project.

Vashum used the assistance to encourage the women to move away from growing marijuana and opium poppies, and into organic farming and the keeping of poultry.

[3] Vashum was invited to the Presidential Palace (Rashtrapati Bhavan) in New Delhi on International Women's Day in 2017 to be awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar.