Aspiration and Pehchaan
Identity, confidence, communication, self-expression, and early exposure to possibilities beyond immediate surroundings.
Program architecture
How Maitri works
A long-term mentorship and aspiration ecosystem that builds identity, voice, and credible pathways from school to work.
How Maitri works
A long-term ecosystem that moves with a girl across key transitions: school, college, and early work.
The Maitri Pathway
From Grade 9 to first jobs
Maitri stays with girls across the transitions where support matters most, so aspiration can become access, and access can become leadership.
Choices and scholarships
Stream choices, board transitions, scholarship awareness, documentation, applications, and guidance for post-school pathways.
Mentoring and exposure
Peer circles, mentor continuity, internships, skill-building, voice platforms, and access to role models and networks.
First jobs and leadership loop
Job readiness, first-work handholding, alumni support, and members returning as peer leads for juniors.
A girl's journey through Maitri
From first session to first job, each step builds on the last. Weekly and bi-weekly workshops, monthly milestone sessions, and quarterly showcase events mark the way forward.
Peer mentoring
A layered mentorship model where seniors guide juniors in small, relationship-oriented groups. Trained mentors provide accountability, emotional safety, and continuity through school, college, and early work transitions.
Skill building
Practical modules on interview preparation, resume building, professional etiquette, goal-setting, critical thinking, and storytelling for impact. Future tracks include financial literacy, digital literacy, and leadership labs.
Pathways
Scholarships, internships, exposure visits, public speaking showcases, and first job placements through partner organizations. Each pathway is mapped to the skills and confidence built in earlier steps.
Sisterhood model (core of the program)
Maitri's core is sisterhood: every girl is held by peer circles, seniors, and mentors through school, college, and first-work transitions.
Level 1 — Core Girls
Participants at the heart of the program. They join structured sessions, build confidence through peer circles, and are paired with mentors who walk alongside them through school, college, and early career transitions.
Level 2 — Peer Mentors
Senior girls who have completed a full mentorship cycle. They lead small groups, provide day-to-day accountability, and model the confidence they once built as core participants.
Level 3 — Senior Mentors
Experienced mentors who train and support peer mentors. They facilitate mentor training on feedback techniques, structured storytelling guidance, maintaining boundaries, and ensuring emotional safety.
Level 4 — Founding & Leadership Team
The leadership layer that designs curriculum, manages partnerships, sets program standards, and ensures the mentorship culture stays relationship-oriented and rooted in the community it serves.
Small-group based
Long-term
Relationship-oriented
Accountability-driven
Voice as leadership
Girls carry wisdom forward
Voice is not an add-on at Maitri. Girls tell stories, host conversations, mentor juniors, and turn lived experience into guidance for the next cohort.
Maitri Voices
Girls write and reflect
Community members document their journeys, choices, confidence, and leadership so younger girls can see pathways through voices like their own.
Ninaad
Stories travel farther
A community podcast carrying success stories from Maitri and girls from similar contexts into the wider ecosystem.
SakhiAI
Lived wisdom becomes support
An AI-supported, peer-anchored reflection companion grounded in anonymised experiences from the Maitri community.
Ninaad: community podcast
Ninaad inspires and carries success stories from the community and outside of girls from similar context and lived realities to the Maitri members so that voice of these trailblazer girls can inspire Maitri girls to lead and pursue their ambition with courage and conviction.
Episode highlight
Meenakshi Yadav
From LSR College to campaign manager at I-PAC. A Vahini scholar who turned mentorship into a career in public policy.
Episode highlight
Sumitra Bharti
Transitioned from Humanities to an Advanced Diploma in Software Programming. Proof that pathways can be rewritten.
Episode highlight
Subhoshree Saha
Excellent 12th board results, selected as a Karm Fellow. A story of academic grit and mentorship.
Team Maitri
Maitri is led by the very community it nurtures. Girls who once received guidance return as scholarship guides, content leads, outreach anchors, event builders, and peer mentors for their juniors.
Built on sisterhood, compassion, and paying it forward, Team Maitri turns lived experience into leadership. Each vertical is a space where young women practise responsibility, guide others, and keep the community growing from within.
Sisterhood
Compassion
Paying it forward
Youth-led growth
Founder - Maitri
Anjali G Sharma
Community Builder and Mentor
Maitri lead
Taniya Negi
Alumna of SOE, Kalkaji. Pursuing B. Pharma at DPSRU.
Maitri lead
Nandini Yadav
Alumna of SOE Kalkaji. Graduate Mass Communication DU.
Maitri lead
Nandini Tiwari
Alumna of GGSSS, Tigri. Software Engineer Unthinkable solutions.
Maitri lead
Anjali Kumari
Alumna of RPVV. Lease Analyst at JLL.
Maitri lead
Bhavya
Alumna PDSKV govt school, Fatehpur Beri, ITEP student-DU
Maitri Lead
Moumita
Alumna PM Shri Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pushp vihar. Preparing for NEET 2026.
Maitri Lead
Aditi
Alumna SKV Rajokri, Pursuing BBA MDU
Community
Sisterhood model
Shared groups, celebration of wins, alumni network, and continuity across transitions. The community is the infrastructure: girls support each other beyond any single program cycle.
The sisterhood is what makes the program durable. When a girl moves from school to college, or from college to her first job, her mentors and peers move with her. The relationship does not end when a curriculum does.
Run a program with us
We co-design internship pipelines, mentorship circles, and transition support with partners who share our values.