JRD Tata

Founder

Founder of Population Foundation of India

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JRD Tata is the founder of Population Foundation of India (1970)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare and women & children from New Delhi.

Population Foundation of India

Population Foundation of India is a New Delhi-based nonprofit founded in 1970 that works on adolescent health, women's empowerment, sexual and reproductive health and family planning through research, policy engagement, community action and communication campaigns. It partners with government bodies including the Ministry of Health and NITI Aayog and reports having trained over 50,000 government officials.

Population Foundation of India reports the following, on its own site:

50,000+ government officials capacitated in areas such as family planning and community action for health
517,000+ young people reached through online campaigns, programmes and grassroots interventions
343,000,000+ engagements achieved through edutainment and digital media initiatives