Youth Advisory Board member, Ritu Jain, joins the Global Shapers community
During International Women’s Day last week, 8 March, the Global Shapers announced new members of the Global Shapers Community by featuring their stories as resilient women leaders in the community. Youth Advisory Board member, Ritu Jain, is one of the new members of the Global Shapers – Thane Hub.
The Global Shapers Community, born out of the World Economic Forum (WEF), is a network of inspiring young people under the age of 30 who are working together to address local, regional, and global challenges. Presently, it has over 10,000 members and spans 446 city-based hubs in 151 countries.
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According to the Shapers website, each city has teams of Shapers that self-organize to create projects that address the needs of their community. Projects are wide-range; from responding to disasters and combating poverty to fighting climate change.
Ritu joins the ranks of the Global Shapers for her work as a social worker. Ritu works to create an equal world by challenging gender norms by empowering vulnerable women and men through education and other interventions. Ritu, through the non-profit organization All India Welfare Society, imparts entrepreneurial skills to marginalized women to give them the opportunity to work and send their children to school.
In terms of mobility, Ritu pointed out how important it was to ensure safe spaces for vulnerable women who need safe mobility to be able to go to schools and get the opportunity to work and connect with the community.
“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish”
