J.A.S. Padmaja

Smt. J.A.S. Padmaja aged 56 years is a Psychology graduate from St. Francis College Hyderabad and a post graduate Diploma in Marriage and Family Counseling from Osmania University.

She is involved in various social service activities for over 3 decades. She is a practicing counselor for the last twenty years working with mental disorders, adolescent crisis, depression and anxiety disorders and marriage counseling.

She was actively involved in founding THE HYDERABAD CHILDRENS TRUST (HCT) which gives meaningful life to the orphaned children by providing shelter and education so that they can secure decent jobs and lead a normal life.

She was also associated with APWMR as Vice President - which took up various welfare activities for differently abled children. She is associated with the JVMRD Trust as a chairperson where she is involved in building a high school in a remote village of the most backward area of AP.

She is also associated with skill development programs for women and educated youth requiring further skills to make them employable from this backward area through this Trust.