Letchimi Devi Doraisamy is a Grants Officer with DAI. For the past 15 years she has worked to address the development, livelihood, and community service needs of asylum seekers and refugees.

As a university student and a social worker supporting the cause of plantation laborers, urban poor, and factory workers, Letchimi expanded her horizons to social activism. Her participation in awareness campaigns for voting rights, minimum wage, affordable housing, and other causes exposed her to innovative approaches that she brings to her current humanitarian work.

In her current role with the UNHCR she implements technical and vocational skills training, entrepreneurship development, multipurpose cash grants, employment counselling, and other initiatives to build up the human and social capital of some 4,000 refugees each year.