Archana Borthakur

Borthakur launched a programme titled 'Positive Lights' in 2016 to provide right treatment and care to HIV+ orphaned children. She has also arranged to decorate the care home of such children with lights and Rangoli and distributed food packets and educational materials along with other essential commodities collected from people.^[4]

In 2018, Borthakur initiated a programme for children under the name and style of ‘Breakfast for a child’.^[5][6]

Borthakur distributed school bags, pencil boxes, fluxes, tiffin boxes, erasers, wood pencils, colour pencils, picture books, exercise copies to below poverty level children in 2018. Khetri area on the outskirts of Guwahati was covered during this mission.^[7]

Borthakur is educating girls in rural Assam about menstruation and making menstrual hygiene accessible to the underprivileged girls.^[8]

Borthakur launched a survey project on child labour in 2020 with the help of Guwahati district administration. A survey was conducted on children from the age group of 9 to 14 years.^[9]

Borthakur is the author of three novels Poridhi, Aparajita and Cottonian ekhon rodor khiriki, Sunyatar Xipare Tathagata, Hothat Bhalpuwai Kole, Abishwashi Samoi Stabdha Jibon.^[10][11][12]