Anusha Bharadwaj is the founder of Voice4Girls. Anusha has been a development sector professional since 2002 and her core expertise is in child education and health, adolescent health, gender, public health and rural development. She holds an MBA in Rural Management from Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) and an MA in Sociology from Annamalai University. In her spare time, Anusha is a documentary photographer and she believes that this lends a unique perspective into the communities she serves.
Anusha believes that marginalized adolescent girls in India must be enabled to take charge of their future and work towards breaking harmful cycles of economic, social, and gender inequality in their communities. Anusha understood that it is not enough to work with girls in isolation but working with adolescent boys as well and educating them will scale the impact and help build gender-equality society.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:
● You give girl a voice, she begins to change her world
● It is important to involve adolescent boys in the process to scale the impact
● Working with public systems has been time consuming but also has been the most rewarding
● The world is broken enough and the only people who can fix it are the children
● These adolescent girls have inspired many other young women
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QUOTE: “Adolescent girls and boys are the future of our society who can build and inspire other young women and men to take charge of their future and work towards breaking harmful cycles of economic, social, and gender inequality of their communities.”