Shakti Prarambha Women Foundation शक्ती प्रारंभ Women Foundation

A Women-Led Public Charitable Trust

Where her strength begins.

शक्तीचा प्रारंभ, प्रगतीचा आरंभ.

Shakti Prarambha stands with women and girls at the moment everything can change — a first classroom, a first skill, a first income, a first time someone listened. We turn that moment into a lifetime.

Shakti Prarambha Women Foundation
जिथे स्त्री शिकते, तिथे संपूर्ण कुटुंब उभं राहतं.
1200+

Women reached

35+

Villages & bastis

18

Skill batches run

100%

Women-led team

नारी शक्ती · Woman Power

ती ठरवते. ती उभी राहते.
ती संपूर्ण गाव बदलते.

Empowerment is not something we hand out. It is a decision she gets to make.

Our work is not to speak for women. It is to remove every reason she was told she could not speak for herself.

तिचा आवाज

Her voice

She learns what the law already guarantees her — and that saying no is a complete sentence.

तिची कमाई

Her income

Money she earned, in an account with her own name on it. Nothing changes a household faster.

तिची निवड

Her choice

When to marry, whether to study, where to work — decisions taken by her, not about her.

तिची साथ

Her people

No woman walks this alone. Every batch becomes a group that keeps meeting long after it ends.

What We Run

Our programmes — one straight line to independence.

01

Shikshan Setu

शिक्षण सेतू — शिक्षणाचा पूल

The cheapest intervention in a girl's life is the one that keeps her in the classroom. We identify girls at risk of…

02

Kaushalya

कौशल्य प्रशिक्षण

Skill batches for women aged 18–45, run inside the community so that no one has to travel, pay for transport, or explain…

03

Swayam Udyog

स्वयं उद्योग — स्वावलंबनाकडे

A skill without a customer is a hobby. This programme picks up where training ends: forming self-help groups, opening bank accounts, linking…

04

Arogya Sakhi

आरोग्य सखी

Health for women is still the most whispered-about subject in most homes. We run plain-spoken camps and sessions — no shame, no…

05

Nyay Sakhi

न्याय सखी — हक्कांची जाणीव

Most women who come to us do not need a lawyer first. They need someone to explain, in Marathi, what the law…

06

Bachat Gat

बचत गट

Savings groups where women pool a little every month, learn to keep accounts, and build the credit history that banks ask for.

07

Training for Women

महिलांसाठी प्रशिक्षण

Short courses run in the neighbourhood — tailoring, food processing, beauty work and digital basics.

08

Health Camps

आरोग्य शिबिरे

Free check-up camps with screening, referrals and plain-spoken sessions on the health questions women are rarely asked about.

Need help today?

Call or WhatsApp us. We answer in Marathi, Hindi and English.

+91 90225 69342

All programme details

From the Field

What it actually looks like.

All events
Pressure cooker distributionKarvenagar, Pune

The Founders

Two women who decided not to wait.

Shakti Prarambha began the way most good things in a neighbourhood begin — with a conversation that refused to end. Today the trust is led by its founders, who still sit in the same training rooms they started in.

Founder & Managing Trustee

Anjali Murlidhar Marathe

अंजली मुरलीधर मराठे

Anjali leads community outreach and operations. She spends most of her week where the work actually happens — in bastis and villages, running enrolment drives, sitting with families who need convincing that their daughter should finish school, and holding the skill batches together.

Founder & Trustee

Apurva Swapnil Tambe

अपूर्वा स्वप्निल तांबे

Apurva leads programme design and partnerships. She builds the curriculum for each batch, keeps the health and education initiatives for adolescent girls running, and manages the trust's relationships with donors, CSR partners and government schemes.

अभिप्राय · In their words

The only review that matters.

मी शिवणकाम शिकायला आले होते. इथून बँकेत खाते कसे उघडायचे, बिल कसे वाचायचे आणि नाही कसे म्हणायचे हे शिकून गेले.

Sunita Kaushalya batch

पहिल्यांदा माझ्या नावाचे खाते झाले. आता घरात माझा शब्द चालतो.

Mangal Savings group, member

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