Rujuta Teredesai
Co-founderFounder of Equal Community Foundation
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Rujuta Teredesai is the co-founder of Equal Community Foundation[1], an Indian non-profit working on human rights, women & children and education from Pune.
Equal Community Foundation
Equal Community Foundation works to raise every boy in India to be gender equitable. Its Action for Equality programme takes boys aged 13 to 17 through a year of behaviour-change work that builds the knowledge, skills, peer support and leadership to challenge gender norms in their own lives and communities, while Project Raise is a national collaborative helping other organisations adopt the same approach.
Equal Community Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- 12,599 boys across India have participated in ECF programmes
- 6,701 boys engaged in gender transformative programmes by Project Raise partners
- 199 collective actions taken by participants each year to challenge gender norms
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Pune
- Founded
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- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “Will Muir and Rujuta Teredesai initially founded a venture called Solar Cinemas in 2009, which was intended to provide information on social and development issues to residents of low-income communities through cinema.” — Equal Community Foundation. Source
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