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Safeena Husain is a social worker and founder of Educate Girls – a non-profit organisation that is headquartered in Mumbai, India. It focusses on mobilising communities for girls’ education in India’s rural and educationally backward areas.
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Safeena Husain, the driving force behind Educate Girls, has been honoured with the prestigious WISE Prize for Education 2023 at the WISE 11 Summit (World Innovation Summit for Education) in Qatar, making her the first Indian woman to win the Prize for contributing to girls’ education in rural India.
A social impact leader, Safeena Husain is the Founder and Board Member of Educate Girls – an Indian non-profit working towards empowering communities for girls’ education in some of India’s hardest-to-reach villages.
Mar 29, 2024 · After almost being forced to drop out of school, Safeena Husain became the first woman to win the prestigious WISE Award in 2023, for sending girls back to study. By Anubhuti Matta, Forbes...
Mar 2, 2024 · S afeena Husain grew up in adverse circumstances. “Poverty, violence, abuse... my family circumstances were difficult,” says the first Indian woman recipient of the WISE Prize for Education. At...
Jan 2019. Why Black girls are targeted for punishment at school -- and how to change that. Monique W. Morris. "Girls' education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet to help solve some of the world's most difficult problems," says social entrepreneur Safeena Husain.
