Building a Better World Through Discarded Bikes – Flathead Beacon

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Building a Better World Through Discarded Bikes Flathead Beacon | August 21, 2018 This article highlights the work of Rise Up Leader and Guatemala Country Representative Veronica Buch as president of Maya Pedal, a non-governmental organization that converts discarded bicycles into pedal-powered machines that can be used by Indigenous people in Guatemala living without electricity. Read the article here.

Rise Up Announces Grantees and Advocacy Projects in Mexico

The following post was originally published by the Public Health Institute on August 14, 2018. Click here to see the original post by Lauren Claassen, Public Health Institute.  PHI’s Rise Up is committed to activating women, girls, and their allies to drive exponential change by strengthening leadership, investing in local solutions, and building movements – one community at a time, one country at … Read More

Urmila Salunkhe

Urmila Salunkhe Program Officer – Akshara Centre Mumbai, Maharashtra – India Urmila has been involved with Akshara Centre since she received a scholarship from them as an adolescent. She has been employed officially with Akshara since 2007 working on their various campaigns for girls and youth including scholarship provision and technical training for 300 girls per year. Right now she … Read More

Shilpa Kashelkar

Shilpa Kashelkar Project Manager – Development Initiative for Self Help and Awakening (DISHA) Pune, Maharashtra – India Shilpa is a dedicated professional with more than 20 years of progressive and multifarious experience in Social Work and Interdisciplinary fields. She is a visiting faculty at the College of Social Work, Mumbai University. Shilpa has worked in the social field, primarily with … Read More

Savita Jadhav

Savita Jadhav Founder + Secretary – Sadhana Institute for Sustainable Development Pune, Maharashtra – India Savita grew up in and has been working in cantonments, which are former Army areas created by the British that don’t have the same bodies and governance as the rest of India. Her grandfather started the schools in her cantonment, where she studied psychology and … Read More

Sabah Khan

Sabah Khan Co-Founder and Managing Trustee – Parcham Consultant – Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai, Maharashtra – India Sabah is a feminist activist whose interests are minority rights with a focus on women.  She follows this passion through her voluntary engagements. She co-founded Parcham, a group dedicated to breaking stereotypes based on religion, class, caste, gender and other markers … Read More

Ratnamala Sudesh Vaidhya

Ratnamala Sudesh Vaidhya Regional Coordinator – Mahila Raisatta Andolan Nagpur, Maharashtra – India Ratnamala is an elected representative at the village level. She works with elected women officials and women from the community in six districts and sees the value in building a connection between the two groups. She is especially interested in working with young women who are educated … Read More

Prabha Desai

Prabha Desai Director – Sanmitra Trust Projects Mumbai, Maharashtra – India Prabha has a long history of working with HIV positive women, sex workers, and trans women in the second-largest Mumbai slum. She implemented a project funded by the Gates Foundation from 2004 to 2012. She sees the challenge of women’s economic empowerment as not just about training and entering … Read More