Satyarani Chadha
FounderFounder of Shakti Shalini
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Satyarani Chadha is the founder of Shakti Shalini[1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children, human rights and lgbtq+ & inclusion from New Delhi.
Shakti Shalini
Shakti Shalini was founded in 1987 by Satyarani Chadha and Shahjahan Apa, two mothers who lost their daughters to dowry-related violence and turned their grief into one of Delhi's first support systems for survivors. It runs a 24x7 helpline, a crisis intervention and counselling centre, the Pehchan shelter home — which also shelters LGBTQ+ persons fleeing family violence — a child protection unit, skills training through Kushalta Vikas Kendra, and grassroots feminist mobilisation in five marginalised Delhi communities.
Shakti Shalini reports the following, on its own site:
- 15,000+ women supported over 36 years
- 2,000+ residents of marginalised communities engaged in grassroots feminist mobilisation
- 500+ individuals engaged in skills training and art-for-activism workshops
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- New Delhi
- Founded
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- Press
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References
- [1] “In the 1980s, Satyarani Chadha and Shahjahan Begum, two women found their daughters subjected to death by burning by their respective in-laws on the pretext of insufficient dowry.” — Shakti Shalini. Source
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