Mavayna Manav
India
“Mavayna Manav(Mansi)” A highly motivated young humanitarian who has decided to dedicate her life to empower women. She had won so many Prestigious Awards for Sustainable Development Goal’s SDG’s, like USA 🇺🇸 White House & United Nations 🇺🇳 and and from Many Ambassadors different countries, She has taken up many causes which aim at improving the lives of women and children. But, her major focus is towards passing the torch of self-awareness and self-love through positive and motivating discussions on female health and menstrual hygiene. It has been because of her drive to encourage women to freely talk about menstrual hygiene.
She is appointed Ambassador in 20 countries for prestigious organisations.
Her story was also published in the top magazines worldwide.
Just completed Graduation from the Delhi University, she has been tirelessly working towards all her goals, which are aimed at the betterment of society and the world. Mavayna has now conceptualized the idea of PADYATRA, which is going to be the world’s first and longest walk of its kind. Through PADYATRA, she aims at making the talks on menstrual hygiene a part of the mainstream discussion among women and girls, specifically coming from the weaker economic sections of the society.
Taking the world’s first and longest journey (yatra), titled “Pad-Yatra”, is to soon begin a country-wide awareness about the Demon, for Menstrual Hygiene and women empowerment for poor, mavayna firmly believes in passing the torch of self-awareness and self-love through positive and encouraging talks on female health and menstrual hygiene.
she sincerely hopes that the youth, across regional and linguistic divides would join forces along with her team and help in removing the taboo surrounding periods and hence lead to open talks and discussions on female hygiene.
She had to fight misogyny, stereotypes, and cognitive dissonance to get where she is today. Her life is an example that when life throws lemons at you, better make some lemonades!
During this pandemic, she have served more than 1500 daily wage earners and their families by distributing food & grocery. While she working on ground, she have realised situation of women residing in the slums. Due to lack of awareness and poor financial situation, they use many harmful traditional ways for their personal hygiene. Sanitary Pads is a very essential need and poor women are neither able to get nor afford them. It puts their health and dignity both at huge risk. she became a Corona Warrior by taking up a drive to distribute sanitary pads to the women of weaker sections of the society and has helped almost 15,000 women since the lockdown began. She had visited slum areas that no one ever thought of visiting due to covid 19. She showed her true self and helped the ladies.