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Jumde Yomgam Gamlin
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Social work · Arunachal Pradesh

Mother's Vision

As a girl, Jumde Yomgam Gamlin did daily-wage work to pay for school. Decades later she built a place where families come to pull loved ones out of addiction, and where women learn to earn.

Jumde Yomgam Gamlinजुमदे योमगम गामलिन
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Jumde Yomgam Gamlin receives the Padma Shri from President Droupadi Murmu, 27 May 2025. Photo: President's Secretariat (GODL-India), via Wikimedia Commons

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Born
1 February 1965
Village
Akker Yomgam, West Siang, Arunachal Pradesh
Organisation
Mother's Vision
Honour
Padma Shri 2025
1980joins government service as Gram Sevika
~35years of government service
30beds at the de-addiction centre

Working to stay in school

Jumde Yomgam Gamlin’s story is a long journey through poverty, grassroots government work and social work against drugs. According to her official citation, she was born on 1 February 1965 in Akker Yomgam village. Her father died early, and in hard times she did daily-wage labour so she could keep studying.

Thirty-five years in the field

In 1980 she joined the Arunachal Pradesh government as a Gram Sevika. Over about 35 years of service in community development, she rose to the level of CDPO. She worked with women’s self-help groups and taught livelihood skills such as sewing, embroidery and making chalk, candles and other useful products. Later, through her NGO Mother’s Vision, she turned her focus to recovery from addiction and women’s empowerment.

A place to recover

Official and public profiles describe Mother’s Vision’s 30-bed, spirituality-based de-addiction centre. Regional reports say more than 700 people have been helped to recover and more than 2,000 women have received training or financial support. Her anti-drug campaigns have rallied remote communities against the cultivation of cannabis and opium.

Her work shows that recovery depends more on rehabilitation than on punishment, and that women’s economic independence makes whole communities stronger.

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