Safeena Husain | |
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Born | Delhi, India | 21 January 1971
Spouse | |
Children | 2 daughters |
Father | Yusuf Hussain |
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. [1] [2] Under her leadership, Educate Girls’ launched world’s first Development Impact Bond in education which on its completion in 2018 surpassed both its target outcomes. [3] [4]
Husain worked in San Francisco as the Executive Director for Child Family Health International from 1998-2004. [5]
Husain moved to Mumbai in 2005 where she began working on what would become Educate Girls. [2] : 7 [5] Educate Girls was founded in 2007. [6] She pointed to surveys indicating India was the worst G20 country to be born a women in as demonstration for India's need for a large scale NGO focused on gender equity in education. There were no such organizations, to her satisfaction, in India at the time. [5] She initially focused on working with the Ministry of Education in partnering with schools in Pali and Jalore which had the worst education gender gaps at the time. [5] [7] Husain subsequently contacted Pratham and UNICEF to learn best practices. She focused on being the strongest presence in a focused community and encouraging community participation. This strategy led to the creation of, Team Balika, a volunteer organization with thousands of members. [5] [7] Their goal is to find out of school girls and encourage them to re-enroll. Husain has highlighted Educate Girls effort to work with the education system and improve it rather than working against the system. [5] Educate girls embodied this idea by signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the government to replicate the organizations model at 2,083 schools in Jalore. [2] : 8
Educate Girls work from 2015-2018 was partially funded by the world's first education related Development Impact Bond. Husain lauded this model because resulted based financing allowed Educate Girls to be innovative in their practices. [8] [3] The program surpassed all its targets for the bond payouts. [3]
In 2011, she was elected one of the Asia 21 Young Leaders by the Asia Society. [9] She is a Rainer Arnhold Fellow [10] and was featured as a speaker at a TEDxASB event on the subject of "Rejuvenating Government Schools in India for Girls' Education". [11] She was also featured as a Times Now "Amazing Indian". [12]
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