Women Empowerment

In 2017, I co-founded an intersectional feminist NGO ‘The Azaad Initiative’, which works for economic independence and social inclusion of genders. The flagship project of the NGO is the ‘She-Mentorship Project’. The project emerged as a result of my academic study for the Ministry of Women And Child Development on ‘Indian Women in Leadership Roles’, …

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Motherhood triggered these three entrepreneurs to create jobs, platforms and opportunities for other women. Educated young women are often forced out of the labour force after becoming mothers. But these three startup founders reinvented their careers after motherhood, and launched social enterprises that create opportunities, jobs and visibility for fellow moms. When Shalini Sharma delivered …

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Located in Anupshahr town of Bulandshahr district in the western Uttar Pradesh, the Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (PPES) is enabling girls and women to become assertive and articulative. Established with the idea of empowering women by making them financially and socially independent, as envisioned by the founder Virendra ‘Sam’ Singh, PPES is making real changes that our …

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Even in the midst of a crisis such as the one brought about by Covid-19, there are positive stories to tell, such as Ms Ogutu Okudo’s. She is on this year’s “Forbes Africa 30 under 30” list — the only Kenyan. Ms Okudo, 28, is the founder of Women in Energy & Extractives Africa, a …

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