A Super Girl Scout Makes Movies To Make Life Better For Vulnerable Girls
Sakshi Satpathy, 16, babysat and walked dogs to finance her films on child marriage and trafficking. She's won the Girl Scout's top honor — and Amnesty International and CARE have screened her works.
It was 4 p.m., and Sakshi Satpathy, the 16-year-old high school senior who had arrived in New York on a red-eye flight from San Francisco at 6 a.m., was finally eating lunch: a take-out chicken and arugula salad from Panera Bread.
Nonetheless poised and smiling in a bright yellow blouse, she responded to a reporter's question that her name, Sakshi, in Hindi means "witness."
That seemed apt since she has already spread awareness of human trafficking, child marriage and gender equality through screenings in 15 countries of her , a to help rehabilitate trafficked girls, not to mention a website and of educational videos about these
