Indian organization Educational Girls has been selected for Asia’s most prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2025. This institution has been working for the education of girls in remote areas of the country for a long time. It has contributed significantly in breaking the cultural conservatism spread in rural areas and breaking the chains of illiteracy.. So let’s know Safina Hussain, founder of the organization About …
Studies from Delhi to London
Safina Hussain was born on 21 January 1971 in Delhi. Her father Yusuf Hussain was a well-known actor, Safina, who was always ahead in studies, later, after completing his graduation from London School of Economics, he chose the path of social service and made the education of girls his mission.
Work and experience abroad
Before returning to India, Safina also worked abroad for a long time from 1998 to 2004, she was the Executive Director of Child Family Health International in San Francisco, here she worked on many problems related to children and families but always thought that she had to do something big in India.
The beginning of educational girls
Safina returned to Mumbai in the year 2005 and soon she saw that girls in India, especially in rural areas, are far behind studies. In 2007, they laid the foundation of “Educate Girls” in the beginning of Pali and Jalore districts of Rajasthan, at that time the condition of girls’ education was the worst.
Safina, along with government schools, started the work of improving girls and preventing them from getting dropouts.
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World’s first development impact bond
Between 2015 and 2018, Educate Girls launched the world’s first development impact bond to fund the work. In this model, money was available only when the results came up, Safina believed that it brought both transparency and innovation in work, the result was that the educational girls had met all the goals and succeeded in connecting millions of daughters.
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