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Sonal Shukla
Founder / co-founderFounder of Vacha Charitable Trust
Sonal Shukla is the founder / co-founder of Vacha Charitable Trust[1], an Indian non-profit working on women & children and education from Mumbai.
Vacha Charitable Trust
Vacha was established as a trust in 1990, growing out of a 1980s women's rights group, and works from Andheri West in Mumbai to equip adolescents — with a particular focus on girls from marginalised communities — with life skills, leadership training and gender-equality education to navigate the transition to adulthood.
Vacha Charitable Trust reports the following, on its own site:
- Directly impacted over 97,000 individuals through focused outreach in the last 10 years
- Extended reach to 430,000+ people via community programmes in schools, colleges and beyond over the last 10 years
- Equipped around 10,000 girls and boys with 21st-century life skills over the last 10 years
- Formed 10 community-based feminist youth groups
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Mumbai
- Founded
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- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “Founder Trustee, Sonal Shukla left behind a formidable legacy of activism for Gender Justice.” — Vacha Charitable Trust. Source
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