Ashif Shaikh

Ashif Shaikh (born 18 October 1982) is a social entrepreneur and activist from India and founder director of the community and survivor focused non-profit organisation Jan Sahas. He is also the founder and current national convener of Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan (National Campaign for Dignity) for eradication of the practice of manual scavenging. Through Jan Sahas, he has launched campaigns to end sexual violence against women and children, forced labour practices, caste based commercial sexual exploitation of children, trafficking and manual scavenging in India.