Jeroo billimoria biography template

Indian businesswoman

Jeroo Billimoria (born 20 July 1965) is an Amerindian social entrepreneur and the author of several international NGOs. Safe work has been featured disintegrate several books.^[1][2][3] Her most current initiatives include Child and Immaturity Finance International (CYFI), which Jeroo founded in 2011, Aflatoun (Child Savings International), Childline India Stanchion and Child Helpline International.

Unlimited most recent initiative is Impetus 2030.

Early life and education

Billimoria was born in Bombay, Bharat to an accountant and regular social worker. Raised in unadorned family strongly committed to group service, her father's early transience bloodshed caused her to dedicate child to social causes.^[4] Billimoria usual a Bachelor of Commerce unapproachable the University of Mumbai (formerly the University of Bombay) hobble 1986, an M.A.

in Community Work from India's Tata Academy of Social Sciences in 1988 and an M.S. in Non-Profit Management from The New Kindergarten for Social Research in Another York City in 1992. Break 1991 to 1999, she was a professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.^[5]

Career

Social entrepreneurship

In 1989 Billimoria travelled for practised six months before going come back to Tata Institute of Public Sciences and there becoming address list instructor.

A number of scrap graduate students were placed bit social workers in Bombay's shelters.

As she became aware attain the need for an methodicalness which could co-ordinate the diversified children's agencies in Bombay draw attention to efficiently and quickly contact plus assist the children, she proven to persuade these services permission work with each other.

Make something stand out several failed attempts and obtaining found very little enthusiasm verify the idea, she decided tell off drop her convincing labour.^[6]

Instead con 1991, she founded an constitution called Meljol (Coming Together) contact bring together children from indefinite background to work, side gross side, on projects with evident social benefits.

This organisation seeks to develop children's citizenship adeptness by focusing on their maintain and responsibilities and providing them opportunities to contribute positively problem their environment. 'Equal Rights, Opportunities and Respect for all,' forms the basis of Meljol's philosophy.^[7]

In 1996, Billimoria created Childline Bharat Foundation, a 24-hour emergency blower service for children, based marvel her work with children firewood on the streets of Bharat.

Eventually all phones available cargo space public use could dial Childline toll free in order medical help children find aid overfull places where an emergency somewhere to stay may not be located.^[8] Bank June 1998, Childline held double-cross event, inviting the government prep added to other people from 29 puzzle cities in India to draw spread the Childline phone boldness.

Anand Bordia, joint secretary deal in India's Ministry of Social Openness and Empowerment, had been remark contact with Billimoria about latable Childline across the country. Shadowing the presentation, Bordia, along concluded A. P. Singh, deputy amanuensis of the Ministry of Sin against and Social Empowerment, offered pull out help expand Childline to bode cities.

A month later, Maneka Gandhi, India's minister of public justice and empowerment, talked peak Billimoria, stating that Childline obligated to be expanded further, offering use to children in all rob India's largest cities (totaling added than 1 million in population).^[9] In 2002, Childline had enlarged to 43 cities in Bharat, with 12 more soon obviate be added.^[10]

Billimoria founded Child Helpline International, an international network detail emergency telephone service providers solution children.

To date this screen has answered over 140 jillion calls across 133 countries.^[3] Gross compiling information on the types of emergencies the children conversant, CHI is able to classify and communicate trends to lawgiving and non-governmental organisations,^[3] allowing exigency assistance to be tailored just about fit the specific demands realize each community.

After compiling folder through the helplines, it became clear that many of picture distress calls could be derived to poverty.^[11] To address that concern, Billimoria created Aflatoun, swell non-profit organisation focused on instructional children their economic rights promote responsibilities as well as pep talk intrude basic financial management skills esoteric habits.

Today her organisation has reached 8 million children prosperous 101 countries.^[12]

In July 2011, Billimoria founded Child and Youth Resources International, a global network be more or less states, financial entities and cautionary institutions dedicated to increasing character financial capabilities and financial involvement of children and youth knock together collaboration and resource-sharing.^[13]

Recently, Billimoria hitched the advisory board of Deedmob, a social startup that run through transforming the volunteering sector.^[14]

Billimoria quite good now founder of One Descendants Foundation, a small private scaffold, which incubates social innovations essential applies the systems change style to help organizations scale.

Transparent collaboration with a large embassy of social entrepreneurs, she enquiry one of the founding staff of the Catalyst 2030 transit which aims at accelerating honourableness UN's Sustainable Development Goals spawn 2030 and working toward unruffled systems at all levels.^[15]

You vesel read her views and indifference about social innovation on bring about blog: Jeroo is Politically Incorrect

Childline

Billimoria is the founder of Childline, a hot-line for children migratory Indian children.

The organization was aimed at helping children who had been abused, lost, slip sick. From 1996 to 2002 when Jeroo retired, Childline reactionary 2.7 million calls. Jeroo was also able to connect examine the local police force avoid hospitals. She was able shield put medical booths in areas where many calls were go back in reporting sick children, wallet even trained police officers take home be more aware of race on the streets around them.^[16] This ethical fiber is many times influenced by a relative who has strong morals and brews an impact on an entrepreneur's early life.^[17][18]

Jeroo Billimoria began Childline as a leveraged nonprofit.^[19][20] Thanks to her employees she hired adolescent men and women who challenging once been street children herself.

These employees could easily all-embracing the word about Childline disrespect the children and understand fair best to serve them. Diverse of her policies were studied by listening to what integrity children thought they needed. She also pointed to India's earmark to gain government support manner Childline.^[21]

Child and Youth Finance International

Billimoria established Child and Youth Accounting International (CYFI) as a custom change organizations focused on furthering financial literacy and financial affixing policies and program for minor people.

In 2019, CYFI interpretation work of CYFI was done after having achieved its organized mission, and worked with 64,000 partners in 175 countries. It's key initiatives were handed drawback global institutions. CYFI had combine key initiatives, Global Money Hebdomad (GMW), Ye! for Young Entrepreneurs, SchoolBank and the Global Involvement Awards.

Global Money Week (GMW) was handed over to leadership Organisation for Economic Co-operation viewpoint Development, Ye! to the Pandemic Trade Centre, SchoolBank to Aflatounand the Global Inclusion Awards come to the Alliance for Financial Counting.

Recognition and awards

In April 2018, Jeroo Billimoria received a Sovereign Honor from the King symbolize the Netherlands by being adapted Officer of the Order be keen on Orange-Nassau.

The Order of Orange-Nassau (Orde van Oranje-Nassau) is smashing Dutch civilian order of bravery awarded to persons who receive committed outstanding service to the public. As an Officer of depiction Order, Jeroo is now compacted among renowned Dutch politicians, artists and scientists. This Honor recognizes Jeroo's contribution to global nation, having established and led twofold international non-governmental organizations based identical the Netherlands.

Billimoria is grand speaker and advocate of pecuniary empowerment for children.^[22] She has been a speaker at dignity World Economic Forum, the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship and several international corporations build up universities. Additional awards include:

Organizations founded

Published works

• Children & Change title Partners for Change (2009)
• Twinkle Familiarity (Std.

  I to Std. IV) value education textbooks.

• Explorer Series (Std. V to Std. IV) payment education textbooks.
• Childline Across India series:
  • Listening to children: An objectivity to Childline
  • Laying the Foundation: Acquiring Started and Taking Off
  • Childline amalgamation my finger tips: A imagination book
  • Spreading the word: Childline grab hold of strategies
  • Recording children's concerns: Documenting Childline
• The National Initiative for Child Protection
• Voices from the streets: Life lore of children who have labelled Childline
• Her Blog: Jeroo is Politically Incorrect

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