Who we are

Myna Mahila is an internationally renowned, award-winning, and technology-driven women’s empowerment NGO and its work has been supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Queen's Commonwealth Trust, ONGC, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), ITC Limited, Rashtriya Chemical and Fertilizer Ltd. (RCF), Reliance Foundation, Stanford University, and MIT Solve, among others. Myna Mahila Foundation works to improve women’s agency, shifts social norms, and empowers women to meet their full potential. It focuses on women in urban slums and has three verticals: (1) Myna Health focuses on improving women’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes with a reach of 1.5 million women. Teach Menses India (TMI) is its flagship program which provides SRH education, products and services to women and girls through physical programming and digital interventions through the TMI mobile application. (2) Myna Employ helps provide job opportunities to women through digital work. Most notably, it houses an initiative called Rani Work (digital work for women over smartphones). (3) Myna Research gathers primary data on women’s agency, employment and health outcomes in urban slums, and runs evaluations, including randomized control trials, to highlight women’s persistent problems and demonstrate solutions for scale. Together, the verticals can help shift mindsets that are holding women back, fostering an environment where women are inspired to speak up like the chatty “Myna” bird. Read more here.

We are honored to have been awarded by Forbes, Meghan Markle, the Queen of England, and have been featured on CNBC, BBC, TIME, Vogue, Glamour, NDTV, The Quint, Forbes, and many more for our work with women in slums. We are a Section 8 company (non-profit) registered in India, and have our 80 G, 12A and FCRA registrations. We run a range of programs from pad production, education, health camps, and at-home employment opportunities. We educate women in English, life skills, mathematics, computer and health and financial literacy. We hold workshops, courses and lectures with the women, and train them in business skills to be able to operate the sanitary pad micro franchisee themselves.

Vision

Educate, enable, enhance and empower women by improving their health and standard of living.

Mission

Increase women's agency and decision making power in the household to make women more confident and financially independent and healthy.

Our Values

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<aside> ✅ Quality Work

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<aside> 📈 Growth Mindset

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