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Nimish Parekh

Founder and co-founder

Founder of Healing Fields Foundation

Nimish Parekh is the founder and co-founder of Healing Fields Foundation[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare and livelihood from Hyderabad.

Healing Fields Foundation

Healing Fields Foundation, founded by Ashoka Fellow Mukti Bosco in 2000, trains rural women as Community Health Entrepreneurs who deliver basic health education, first aid and telehealth referrals within their own villages. The model pairs healthcare access with a livelihood for the women who deliver it, and now reaches several thousand villages across multiple states.

Healing Fields Foundation reports the following, on its own site:

  • 8000 Villages and counting
  • 10 mn Citizen Beneficiaries across 10 States in India
  • More than 8,000 Community Health Entrepreneurs (CHEs) reach 10 million people across 10 states.
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Hyderabad
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References

  1. [1] “We are an Ashoka Fellow-led NGO, founded by Mukti Bosco, the recipient of the prestigious 2022 Roux Prize.” — Healing Fields Foundation. Source

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