Suhani Jalota, a Mumbai-based social worker and activist has been nominated for the Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award 2020. She has formed the NGO Myna Mahila Foundation working towards menstrual health care for women in the slums of Mumbai and create earning sources for them. Suhani is the only Indian among three others nominated for this award. The prize money of $2,50,000 will be awarded to the winner’s organisation.
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About Suhani and Her work
Suhani Jalota is 26 years old, pursuing her PhD in Economics and Health Policy at Stanford University in California.
She received the Glamour Woman of the Year award for 2016. Jalota graduated from Duke University in 2016.
She won the 2017 Queen’s Young Leader Award for her start-up and its contributions.
She formed her foundation in 2015 to bring awareness to women’s health issues which they are afraid to discuss. She focussed on women in Mumbai slums and distributed sanitary pads. Established factory producing sanitary products employing the women from the slum. The foundation is aiming to increase the working women to 25000 and provide the menstrual health product and services to 2 million women by 2025.
In 2017 her Myna Mahila Foundation was endorsed by Prince Harry and Meghan.
About the Global Citizen Prize
The Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award was established by Cisco and Global Citizen to recognize and lift up a young person positively impacting the world, demonstrate the impact that young people are having on achieving the Global Goals, and accelerate global problem-solving.
It campaigns to achieve the United Nations’ Global Goals to end extreme poverty by 2030. The Cisco Youth Leadership Award embodies that aim because it exists to celebrate the amazing young people driving change in their communities and around the world.
