Myna Mahila Foundation

Myna Mahila Foundation works to improve women’s agency, shifts social norms, and empowers women to meet their full potential. It focuses on women in urban slums and has three verticals: (1) Myna Health focuses on improving women’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes with a reach of 1.5 million women. (2) Myna Employ helps provide job opportunities to women through digital work. (3) Myna Research gathers primary data on women’s agency, employment and health outcomes in urban slums, and runs evaluations, including randomized control trials, to highlight women’s persistent problems and demonstrate solutions for scale. Across all verticals, Myna uses the MHealth application and its features to reduce the digital divide, provide access to information, and connect women.

Myna Mahila is an internationally renowned, award-winning, and technology-driven NGO and its work has been supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stanford University, Queen's Commonwealth Trust, Microsoft, ONGC, Reliance Foundation, Stanford University, and MIT Solve, among others. Together, we seek to shift mindsets that are holding women back, fostering an environment where women are inspired to speak up like the chatty “Myna” birds.