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Safeena Husain is a social worker and founder of Educate Girls – a non-profit organisation that is headquartered in Mumbai, India. It focusses on mobilising communities for girls’ education in India’s rural and educationally backward areas.
Social entrepreneur. Educate Girls. TED Speaker. Personal profile. Safeena Husain has worked extensively with rural and urban underserved communities in South America, Africa and Asia. After returning to India, she chose the agenda closest to her heart — girls' education — and founded Educate Girls.
Safeena Husain, the driving force behind Educate Girls, has been honoured with the prestigious WISE Prize for Education 2023 at the WISE 11 Summit (World Innovation Summit for Education) in Qatar, making her the first Indian woman to win the Prize for contributing to girls’ education in rural India.
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A social impact leader, Safeena Husain is the Founder and Board Member of Educate Girls – an Indian non-profit working towards empowering communities for girls’ education in some of India’s hardest-to-reach villages. In 2023, Safeena became a WISE Prize laureate, making her the first Indian woman to be honoured for her contributions to ...
- Tell Us About Educate Girls.
- Which Aspects of Your Work Do You Find Most Challenging?
- …And The Most Rewarding?
- What Are Your Fondest Memories of LSE?
- Who Was Your Favourite Academic, and Why?
Educate Girls is a non-profit organisation that I founded in 2007. It was formed with a very clear purpose – to bridge the gender-gap in education by bringing girls to school. We believe that if girls in the most marginalised communities are educated, they will have the potential to improve their lives as well as lift their families out of poverty ...
In the secluded belts we work in, finding the best human resources with the right skills to deliver our work is the first big challenge. Additionally, the successful public-private-partnership model we use – working with communities, schools and local governments – performs against the challenging backdrop of an ever-changing bureaucratic landscape...
We witness the transformative powers of education. Young girls who were confined to the kitchen now aspire to have a career and have an understanding of their rights, the meaning of financial stability, health, hygiene, and nutrition. It‘s a real joy to see a daughter read out a newspaper to her parents! All these little experiences make our effort...
The university had an incredibly dynamic energy and was a cultural melting pot! Some of my fondest memories are from the events on Houghton Street, in the Library, and Carr-Saunders halls of residence. It was the first time I had lived so far from home completely on my own, so LSE in my mind is always associated with my first taste of independence....
Professor Dudley Baines, in the Economic History department. He made complex principles of economics come alive in the classroom through deep and colourful historical narratives. I still remember some of his explanations to this day! More than that, he was always supportive as a guide and mentor.
"Girls' education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet to help solve some of the world's most difficult problems," says social entrepreneur Safeena Husain. In a visionary talk, she shares her plan to enroll a staggering 1.6 million girls in school over the next five years -- combining advanced analytics with door-to-door community ...
29 mar 2024 · After almost being forced to drop out of school, Safeena Husain became the first woman to win the prestigious WISE Award in 2023, for sending girls back to study. By Anubhuti Matta, Forbes...
