Anjali Gopalan

Anjali Gopalan

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  • Name:
  • Anjali Gopalan
  • Born:
  • September 1, 1957

Anjali Gopalan Biography

Anjali Gopalan is a social activist from Tamil Nadu best known as human rights and animal rights activist. She is also an LGBT rights activist. She is the founder and executive director of The Naz Foundation (India) Trust, an NGO which stands for AIDS patients, with main focus on women and children, and also and gay, lesbian, transgendered and bisexual communities. In 2012, Time placed Gopalan on its list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Her work on HIV/AIDS issues over the past two decades has changed the way India’s policymakers address these issues.

 

Anjali Gopalan was born in 1957 in Chennai. Her father was an Indian Air Force Officer. Her mother hailed from Punjab and is a homemaker. Her education was completed in various cities across North India, where her father worked in air force. She took advanced studies from US, and worked there for 10 years before she moved back to India. Anjali worked for nearly a decade with community-based organizations in New York City, before he set up the NGO - The Naz Foundation aimed at working for marginalized communities in the United States.

 

She set up the organization soon after her return to India in 1955. Her experiences in this field made her efforts much easier. NAZ foundation works on issues of sexuality, rights, and training, and runs an orphanage-and-home exclusively for children and women affected by HIV. Her organization also fights against social injustice in the context of gender, sexual orientation, poverty and a few more factors. She established Delhi’s first HIV clinic in 1994. She also found Naz Foundation (India) Trust in 1990s.

 

Published: September 04, 2018

Updated: September 04, 2018

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