Netri Foundation
Our SaathNirbhar Story:
‘It’s so heartwarming that you called me at 3 am for a stranger!’
Like millions across India, Kankkshi made countless such calls during the catastrophic second wave of Covid-19. Despite her full-time job, 40-hour-per-week course, and personal loss, her response was immediate. With her campaign ‘Help Bhopal Breathe’, Kankkshi raised INR 8 lac in 24 hours to source life-saving medical supplies for her city and remote villages.
Going beyond emergency assistance, Kankkshi’s organisation Netri Foundation is training Covid widows to secure a livelihood, questioning MPs and MLAs, and maintaining updated databases of medical resources for contingencies.
About Us:
NETRI is India’s first incubator and aggregator for women in politics which delivers programs that equip women to run for elections, become political professionals or political entrepreneurs thereby increasing women's participation in decision-making.
Working with a vision to engender politics & decision making, we are creating 21st-century female-leader icons who have the imagination and determination to transform Indian politics and governance.
Vision: We aim to achieve women’s full and effective participation with equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic, social and public life.
Building an ecosystem for women in decision-making
NETRI is a one-stop solution for nurturing leadership at grassroots levels. Through its programmes, NETRI is building a women-first political ecosystem by:
1. Fostering grassroots leadership: A Sarpanch represents 5000+ people in her gram panchayat and has financial discretion of INR 60-80 lakh per annum and 29 matters to legislate on.
2. Preparing women to take up positions within regional and national parties: Women’s presence in important positions across wings within parties impacts the culture of the political ecosystem and makes it women sensitive.
3. Preparing women to become political trainers and campaigners- For every 4 women, there are 290 men who are managing a political campaign (3.3% women). NETRI wants to change that. Through its training programmes.
We bring data and policy at the centre of women's political campaigns.
