Five Indian-American women based out of Dallas, Texas, have founded an organization to empower and enable less fortunate female entrepreneurs worldwide. Called Mahila, or Hindi for "Woman," the group consists of several prominent women who have banded together to bring lasting and meaningful change through entrepreneurship throughout the world. By empowering only a woman, this gives her the skills to empower her family- exponentially helping many different people through one.
Choosing philanthropy over charity, Mahila's founders say that philanthropy gives the less fortunate the skills needed to better their lives, instead of simply giving them a short term solution for chronic problems. By allowing poor women in India to better themselves, Indian women will have many more opportunities both at home and in the workforce, and will help to decrease the problem of chronic poverty and financial exclusion.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.