Dr. Leena Kelshikar

Co-Founder & Managing Director (Dr. Lata Ghanshamnani); Co-Founder (Dr. Leena Kelshikar, Mrs. Veena Angadi)

Dr. Leena Kelshikar is the co-founder & managing director (dr. lata ghanshamnani); co-founder (dr. leena kelshikar, mrs. veena angadi) of RNisarg Foundation (2016)^[1], an Indian non-profit working on environment and healthcare from Thane.

RNisarg Foundation

RNisarg is a doctor-founded, women-led nonprofit in Thane that treats waste and climate as public-health problems. Its Project Sakhi has educated over a lakh women on menstrual health and promoted menstrual cup use; other programmes include a municipal sanitary-waste collection service, the Prarambh schools initiative on waste and road safety, and a structured take-back system for unused medicines.

RNisarg Foundation reports the following, on its own site:

1.0L+ Women Educated (Menstrual Health)
5.0L+ Students Reached (Prarambh)
25.0L+ Citizens Reached (Green Pharmacy)
1.0Cr+ Pads Diverted from Landfills

Organisations: 1
Based in: Thane
Founded: 2016
Press: 0

References

[1] “RNisarg Foundation was established by doctors who understood that the health of people, communities, and ecosyste” — RNisarg Foundation. Source

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