Anjori

Personal Experience

Anjori holds a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication and brings hands-on experience from startups and advertising firms, specializing in branding and communication strategies. She is dedicated to volunteer work, crafting compelling articles for community development initiatives.
At MHT, Anjori works as a Development Associate focusing on Water and Sanitation and Land Rights in informal settlements in Delhi. Her role encompasses the strategic design of community engagement tools, the curation of compelling case studies, and organising informative community awareness sessions. Her work also helps her collaborate closely with community members in identifying the challenges and co-creating solutions that empower them to advocate for themselves.
As an ardent advocate for women’s empowerment, Anjori is deeply committed to providing women with a platform to showcase their strengths and abilities, thus fostering a more inclusive and equitable society.

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Nishtha Kashyap

Personal Experience

Nishtha Kashyap is an architect, designer, and social practitioner based in New Delhi, India. She is currently working at the intersection of urbanism, the built environment, policy advocacy, public participation, and community development. She has worked on projects on housing and land rights, water and sanitation, the livelihoods of informal workers, access to social security, and participatory urban governance, focusing on improving the built environment and the lives of marginalized communities in Delhi’s urban areas for over 2 years. Her works include research and advocacy at the city planning level, creating visual and communication tools for public engagement and awareness, and designing and building social infrastructures engagement like schools, anganwadis, temporary housing shelters, etc. She believes that architecture and architects bear a social responsibility to bring about positive change in society. Deeply concerned with access to human rights, she is very passionate about exploring how architecture can address social and spatial inequalities.

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Kavita

Personal Experience

Ms. Kavita is a graduate in social work. She has over two years of experience on community mobilization and field work. She is an expert to convince the community for specific projects like water and sanitation programme for MHT.
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Malati Devi

Personal Experience

Ms. Malti Devi is 12th Pass, she has over 10 years of Experience on community mobilization and field work. She is an expert to convince the community for specific project like water and sanitation, skill upgradation, land rights and cool roof technologies programme for MHT.
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Nirali Shukla

Personal Experience

Ms. Nirali Shukla has done Bachler of Science in Chemistry (B.Sc.) She has over 11 years of experience on capacity building of women from various communities. She has designed, different type s of innovative participatory games and she has excellent skill to engage community women in subjective training.
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Veena Bhardwaj

Personal Experience

Ms. Veena Bhardwaj has done Post Graduation Diploma in Hindi Journalism. She has over Eleven years of Community development experience. She has designed, managed and evaluated Water and Sanitation, Skill Upgradation, Land Rights and Cool Roof Technologies programme for MHT.
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Bhavna Maheriya

Personal Experience

Ms. Bhavana Maheriya is an Electrical Engineer by profession. She has over 20 years of Energy and Community development experience. She has designed, managed and evaluated renewable and efficient energy programme for MHT.
She has managed a Grid Electrification Programme in partnership with the private sector (Ahmedabad Electricity Company) which has enabled legal electrification on all poor households in Ahmedabad and has been showcased as a worldwide best practice by USAID.

She has experience in a range of community energy programmes including renewable energy, and energy auditing and developing efficient energy entrepreneurs. She has also conducted evaluations and assessment for community energy programmes across states of India.

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Bijal Brahmbhatt

Personal Experience

Ms. Bijal Brahmbhatt is currently the Director of Mahila Housing SEWA Trust (MHT). She is a civil engineer by profession and is a recognized expert in habitat improvement, community development and housing finance. She oversees the operations of MHT at the national level. She has a proven experience in conceptualizing, planning, managing and providing support for slum upgradation programmes across India. She works on renewable and efficient energy issues for the poor with various stakeholders including the government of India and private sector. Her professional experience focuses on a range of poverty alleviation issues, particularly with women, entrepreneurship, slum upgradation, water and sanitation, income and urban planning, housing finance, housing technology, climate resilience, participatory governance, etc. She has been representing MHT on several government advisory committees including expert committee on Rajiv Awaas Yojana, Affordable Housing Task Force by the Prime Minister’s Office in 2008 and Steering Committee of Planning Commission for the 12th Five Year Plan. She is on board of SEWA Grih Rin, a housing finance company for the poor women and is also as an Advisor to poor women credit-cooperatives.
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