Snehal Chaudhari

Founder & President of Kshitij Foundation

Kshitij Foundation works on menstrual hygiene awareness in India.

We reached about 80k women girls of tribal,slums, rural areas of Maharashtra.

We run the campaign name #bleedthesilence

AWARDS RECEIVED
Charity Leadership Award 2021 ( Global Economic Changemakers USA )
MHM Champion Award (Tamilnadu)
Indian Woman Talent Award (Punjab)
Women Icon Award (Hariyana)
Idols of Maharashtra (Sakal Media)
Lokmat Women's Award 2022
Kartavya Yogini Award 2021
(Akola Police )
Yashwantrao Chavan State Youth Award
District Youth Award ( Gov. Maharashtra State)
Ambassador of Change (by Network of Youths)
The Wonder Woman ( Muskurahat Foundation)
Yuva Gaurav Sanman 2018
Samaj Manav Puraskar
JAGAR 2019
Navdurga Sanman 2021 ( Buldhana Film Society)
Swayam 2021 (Akola Police )
Karygaurav Sanman 2019 ( Vikalang seva santha , Chandrapur)
Women's day award ( ICAI Akola)
INDURAMA Seva Sanstha Puraskar
Nomination: I volunteer Awards

Deesha Foundation,Amaravati
Narishakti Sanman (Police mitra mandal ,Malegaon)
Kshitij Foundation mainly works in urban slums, rural areas, tribal zones. We have conducted sessions in schools ,colleges organisations, Self help
groups ,women committee ,gram Panchayat, Zilla Parishad,
state youth camps ,public health centers hospitals, Dongri jail Mumbai ,
Police training center, orphanage etc.

NGO work during pandemic-
1. During pandemic we conducted online sessions from many platforms like Humans of Bombay, jijau.com, Jammu and Kashmir Foundation etc.
2. Also in pandemic we successfully organized online awareness sessions about periods. We also donated menstrual hygiene kit to police and underprivileged women.
3.National nutrition week celebration. We celebrated whole week by making awareness on nutrition for women in various age groups, nutrition during
pregnancy and periods. nutrition for anemia, nutrition for Covid patients, nutrition for breast feeding mothers, nutrition for kids ,nutrition for adults and many more. We also arranged programs with school going children. Various competitions were held. In one nutritious dish making competition Ran Bhaji Information competition students of various age groups participated in competition and they got aware of importance of nutrition in their life and for their families too.

In initial days ,I successfully implemented a project named SWAMINI DARUBANDI ANDOLAN (Anti Alcohol Campaign) through Deaddiction program.
The project intervention aimed at to make Yavatmal as a completely dry and liquor free district. In this campaign, a 125 km long padyatra organized from Yavatmal to Nagpur during the winter. Assembly session of Maharashtra from 4th to 9th December. In this padyatra more than 10 thousand women took part. Also march on houses of MLAs of Vani Padharkawada, Umarkhed, etc. Swamini has organized 23 Andolans in total.

Consumption of carry bags in Yavatmal city is approximately 6 lakhs per day. None of these bags were recycled and subsequently it was causing serious environment and health hazards. For this, we started cleaning plastic bags of some areas of the city. Also we encouraged people to avoid use of plastic bags and distributed cloth and paper bags.

Water scarcity is critical issue in our Vidarbha Region of Maharashtra State. To solve this issue, with the help of government, administration and citizens, we deslited the Nilona dam for increasing the water level and slits were given free of cost to farmers to increase the fertility of farms. More than 12000 people participated in this project.

For fund raising for cancer patients, I lead the campaign of collecting old newspapers.

More than 25 schools & collages, librarians, Public organizations participated in this campaign.

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