Srujna turns skill into income and women into leaders — through livelihood, leadership and capacity building, one community at a time.
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Five programmes, one path: from learning a skill, to earning from it, to leading others.
Skill development and income generation — textile crafting, food processing and sustainable products.
Mentorship, mindset coaching and leadership training for grassroots women.
Marketing and sales training that opens doors to bigger markets.
Digital literacy with Pragati; money confidence with Laxmi's financial literacy.
Scroll the story — each chapter piles on the last, the way each woman's progress builds on the one before.
Jyotika Sehra and Vaishali Shah were working with survivors of human trafficking. They saw young women stepping into adulthood without the skills to stand on their own. What if they could?
A small skills programme for rescued girls grew into a nonprofit working with women across India — women held back by poverty, not by talent.
Textile crafting, food processing, sustainable products — skills that turn into a steady, respectable income inside her own community.
Marketing and sales training so what she makes reaches the people who will buy it — and the price it deserves.
Pragati brings technical and digital literacy. Laxmi brings financial literacy — budgeting, saving and the confidence to decide.
Superdidis are grassroots women leaders — mentored, coached and trained to carry change back into their own communities.
An army of courageous women in India, acting independently to uplift their communities — and the work goes on, one woman at a time.
Real women, counted one by one.
Figures from srujna.org, read 2026-10-14.
Every woman moves through the same four steps — at her own pace.
Women join a Srujna group in their own community and learn a craft, a trade or a digital skill — Maitree and Pragati.
Sales Sakhi teaches her to price, pitch and sell — so her work reaches real buyers and real income.
Project Laxmi builds financial literacy — budgeting, saving, banking and the confidence to decide for herself.
The strongest become Superdidis — mentored leaders who bring the next women in and lift their whole community.
To create an army of courageous women in India who act independently to uplift their communities.
Srujna Charitable Trust works with women affected by poverty across India, giving them the skills and tools to earn a respectable income and drive positive change in their communities.
Jyotika Sehra and Vaishali Shah founded Srujna in 2011, after working with survivors of human trafficking and seeing how many young women lacked the skills to live independently.
Maitree (skills and livelihood), Superdidi (grassroots leadership), Sales Sakhi (sales and marketing), Pragati (technical and digital literacy) and Laxmi (financial literacy).
A grassroots woman leader — mentored, coached and trained by Srujna to carry change back into her own community.
Srujna's own system. Staff, trainers and partners sign in to run programmes, sessions, people and finance.