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Nilima Deshpande

Founding trustee

Founder of Stree Mukti Sanghatana

Nilima Deshpande is the founding trustee of Stree Mukti Sanghatana[1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children, human rights and livelihood from Mumbai.

Stree Mukti Sanghatana

Stree Mukti Sanghatana works across Mumbai and Navi Mumbai for women's empowerment and gender justice through education, healthcare, family counselling and livelihood programmes, including its well-known work organising women waste pickers into sustainable solid-waste management cooperatives.

Stree Mukti Sanghatana reports the following, on its own site:

  • Works with 3,000 women wastepickers

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