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Chetna Gala Sinha is the founder of Mann Deshi Foundation (1996)[1], an Indian non-profit working on livelihood and women & children from Mhaswad.
Mann Deshi Foundation
Mann Deshi Foundation trains rural and semi-urban women in business skills, financial literacy and entrepreneurship, working alongside the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank founded by Chetna Sinha in Mhaswad, Maharashtra.
Mann Deshi Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- 400,000 women have participated in the women's empowerment programmes
- 90,000 accounts with the Mann Deshi Sahakari Bank
- 50,000 people in the community have benefitted from access to clean water
- 9,000 girls benefited through the bicycle programme to ensure access to schools
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Mhaswad
- Founded
- 1996
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “In 1996, our founder Chetna Gala Sinha decided to set up the first rural bank for women in India to provide a safe space for women to save as well as gain affordable and easy access to credit.” — Mann Deshi Foundation. Source
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