Aparna Hegde

Aparna Hegde

Founder

Founder of ARMMAN

Aparna Hegde is the founder of ARMMAN[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare and women & children from Mumbai.

ARMMAN

ARMMAN is a Mumbai-based nonprofit using mobile technology plus health workers to reduce maternal and child mortality — through programmes like Kilkari (stage-based voice messages for mothers) and Mobile Academy (training for ASHAs), run at national scale with governments.

ARMMAN reports the following, on its own site:

  • 81 M+ pregnant women, mothers and their children reached
  • 554,592 health workers trained
  • 22,862 nurses, medical officers and specialists trained
  • Working across 27 states and union territories

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