Monday Motivation
Centre for Cognitive Activities, NIT Durgapur
Ideate, Innovate, Inspire
"Education can be a powerful transformative force, but in order to be transformative education must be transformed", says Dr. Urvashi Sahni a social entrepreneur, women rights activist, and educationist. Through her various organizations, she has worked for the rights of children and women for over three decades.?
The story of Urvashi Sahni's success started in 1983, the year in which she became the founding president and CEO of the Study Hall Educational Foundation (SHEF), under which she established three K-12 schools including Prerna Girls School, providing affordable high-quality rights-based education to over 1000 girls from urban slums. A prolific social entrepreneur, Dr. Sahni also founded DiDi’s, a social enterprise generating sustainable livelihoods for women, where she employs 65 Prerna graduates and their mothers. Indeed, the journey of Dr. Urvashi Sahni has been truly motivating and should always be taken as an inspiration.