Safeena Husain is an Indian social activist and an entrepreneur. She is thought to be the spouse of the well-known movie director, Hansal Mehta. Safeena Husain is the founding father of Educate Ladies (EG), which focuses on decreasing the prevalent gender hole in India.
Wiki/Biography
Safeena Husain was born on Friday, 21 January 1971 (age 51 years; as of 2022) in Delhi, India. She accomplished her education at Delhi Public College, R. Ok. Puram in New Delhi. In 1995, she earned her Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Economics Historical past diploma from The London College of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 2012, Safeena Husain accomplished her Govt Schooling Program in Constructing a International Enterprise in India from Harvard Enterprise College (HBS). In 2015, Safeena Husain, from Harvard Enterprise College Govt Schooling, accomplished her Strategic Views in Nonprofit Administration (SPNM) course.
Household
Dad and mom
Her father’s identify is Yusuf Bakshish Husain. He was an actor and a historian by career.
Yusuf Bakshish Husain, father of Safeena Husain
Husband & Kids
Safeena Husain received married to the well-known movie director, Hansal Mehta, on 22 Might 2022 at Taj Campton Place, San Francisco, California.
Safeena and Hansal holding their marriage certificates
Safeena Husain has two daughters. The elder daughter’s identify is Kimaya.
Kimaya, daughter of Safeena
Rihanna is the youthful daughter.
Rihanna, daughter of Safeena
Relationships/Affairs
Earlier than getting married, Safeena Husain was in a live-in relationship with Hansal Mehta for 17 years.
Safeena Husain with Hansal Mehta
Profession
Working in the US
Safeena Husain stayed in London for 5 lengthy years. After finishing her commencement from The London College of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1995, Safeena moved to San Francisco (Bay Space), the place her diploma in Economics helped her get a job within the Silicon Valley. Initially, she began to work for an Web-based startup, which needed to construct a 3D net browser. Nevertheless; after working there for 9 months, the startup was closed and Safeena misplaced her job. Safeena, from the start, needed to work for a social trigger. In 1995, she was provided a job on the Little one Household Well being Worldwide (CFHI). As an worker, Safeena visited a number of South American and Asian international locations reminiscent of Ecuador, Mexico, Bolivia, South Africa and India.
Coming again to India
In 2007, after working for Little one Household Well being Worldwide, Safeena Husain determined to stop her job and head again to India, to start out her organisation. Safeena, whereas working with CFHI realised the affect such organisations have on decreasing the gender hole. When requested in regards to the causes for founding Educate Ladies, Safeena, in an interview, said,
I returned to India to drive the agenda that’s closest to my coronary heart — that’s of women’ training. From the very outset, I had a robust private motivation to make a change in India’s training system primarily as a result of I personally discovered my pathway via training. A goat is an asset, a lady is a legal responsibility. Dad and mom don’t wish to spend money on a daughter’s training. Why ought to we ship her to highschool? She’ll go to her husband’s home to stay. What’s the level of her studying?”
Throughout the preliminary section of creating Educate Ladies; Safeena needed to battle lots. Throughout an interview, Safeena stated,
They referred to as us mad canines, and slammed the doorways on our faces… all of this was not even stunning for us. For these individuals, we had been strangers who had been making an attempt to persuade them to problem the established order. The speak round women’ training was not as rife then, as it’s right now. However even now once we enter a brand new district, resistance has the identical core cause — the mindset.”
In 2007, Safeena began her organisation with just a few workers and volunteers. As of 2021, Educate Ladies has greater than 9.5 lakh women enrolled, which in return is benefiting greater than 11.5 million households. The organisation additionally has greater than 2,000 full-time workers, being assisted by greater than 15,000 neighborhood volunteers.
Recognition of her social work
Safeena Husain shortly got here into the limelight for her work. In 2019, Safeena Husain delivered a speech about her journey, life experiences and future imaginative and prescient. The speech captivated the viewers. Her speech’s video, uploaded by TEDx, has gathered greater than 1.7 million views.
Safeena Husain delivering her speech on TEDx
Later, in the identical 12 months, Safeena Husain was invited to the speak present referred to as Ted Talks India: Nayi Soch. The speak present was hosted by Shah Rukh Khan and the present was aired on Star Plus.
Safeena Husain with Shah Rukh Khan, host of Ted Talks India: Nayi Soch
In 2021, Educate Ladies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Directorate of Girls Empowerment of the Rajasthan Authorities.
The signing of the MoU between the Rajasthan Authorities and Educate Ladies
When requested about her working expertise together with the governmental departments, Safeena stated,
With the federal government, now we have to construct an alignment. By figuring out the federal government’s precedence in sure areas and supporting them to realize their desired objectives, we may have a joint imaginative and prescient of success. If the information tells us that the gender hole is biggest in a specific district, that’s the place we’ll search to associate and achieve permission from the federal government to work in.”
In 2021, Safeena’s Non-Revenue Organisation partnered with Starbucks to advertise Educate Ladies (EG).
A Starbucks placard at Indira Gandhi Airport, New Delhi
In 2020, throughout the second wave of the Corona Virus in India, Educate Ladies donated free rations and hygiene kits to the poor households in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. The aid materials was distributed underneath the organisation’s COVID Reduction Initiative. In 2021, Educate Ladies launched the world’s first Improvement Affect Bond (DIB). The DIB was not solely recognised in India but additionally in numerous components of the world. In the identical 12 months, her organisation was listed within the Prime 100: Most Inspiring Kindergarten to twelfth Educationists.
Safeena Husain with village women
Vital positions held in numerous organisations
Other than being the director of Educate Ladies, Safeena Husain can be an Advisor to a number of social service organisations reminiscent of India Leaders for Social Sector (ILSS), EdHeroes, Bharat EdTech Initiative, Kids’s Funding Fund Basis (CIFF) and L’Oreal Paris. She can be working as a High quality Council Member of Dalberg, Neighborhood Chief of Neighborhood Chief Affect Future Undertaking – Schooling and she or he can be one of many Administrators on the Board of Administrators of Workex.
Awards, Honours, Achievements
- In 2019, Safeena Husain was awarded the Past Enterprise Award by Financial Instances.
Safeena Husain with ET Prime Girls Management Award
- In 2017, Safeena Husain acquired NITI Aayog’s Girls Remodeling India Award.
Safeena Husain accepting NITI Aayog’s Girls Remodeling India
- In 2016, Safeena Husain was awarded the NDTV-L’Oreal’s Girls of Value Award.
Safeena Husain holding NDTV-L’Oreal Girls of Value Award
- In 2015, Safeena Husain was listed within the Prime 100 Record of Most Influential International Leaders Empowering Girls Worldwide. The listing was issued by Empowering Billion Girls.
- In 2015, Safeena Husain gained the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. The award was offered to her by Skoll Basis.
Safeena Husain with Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship
- In 2015, Safeena Husain was awarded Qatar Basis’s WISE Award.
Safeena Husain in World Innovation Summit for Schooling
- In 2014, Safeena Husain was offered the Stars Affect Award by the Stars Basis.
President Invoice Clinton with Safeena after Stars Affect Award’s presentation
- In 2014, Safeena Husain was awarded USAID Millenium Alliance Award. The award was offered by the Minister of Street Transport & Highways, Nitin Gadkari.
Safeena Husain throughout the USAID Millennium Award presentation
- In 2013, Safeena Husain was chosen as a Rainer Arnhold Fellow.
- In 2012, Safeena Husain was chosen as a Girls Change Maker India Fellow by Womanity Basis from Geneva, Switzerland.
- In 2011, Safeena Husain was offered with the Edelgive Social Innovation Honours Award by Edelgive Basis.
- In 2011, Safeena Husain gained India Improvement Market Competitors, held by the United Nations.
- In 2010, Safeena Husain was the winner of the Dasra Village Capital Award.
Information/Trivia
- Safeena Husain refers back to the lady volunteers working in Educate Ladies as Balika Volunteers.
A Balika Volunteer from Educate Ladies
- Safeena Husain’s dad and mom separated when she was very younger. Whereas staying along with her mom, Safeena would usually get abused by her stepfather, on account of which, she escaped to an Ashram. In an interview, Safeena stated,
I felt like I used to be in a thousand items. As an alternative of heading to school, I escaped to an ashram. I started to stay on the banks of the Ganges and began studying several types of scriptures.”
- Safeena Husain seems as much as her husband and her father, as her position fashions. In an interview, she stated,
For me there are simply two individuals I look as much as who’re my position fashions for equality as effectively, that’s my dad and my husband. They’re each nice cooks, which suggests I’ve by no means needed to be taught to prepare dinner. My imaginative and prescient of equality is their imaginative and prescient, and so my father and my husband each have reshaped my worldview. They’re form of my position fashions.”
