The #SheTheChange 2022 campaign, which was launched by the New Zealand High Commission in collaboration with SheThePeople TV, is now concluded. We were introduced to amazing women change-makers from New Zealand and India as well as the nations accredited to the High Commission, Nepal and Bangladesh, through the campaign, which played on the year 2022 to highlight 22 women in their 20s.
The campaign was started on Women's Day on March 8 and ran for 13 weeks until June 5th, which was Environment Day. It honored Ocean Week, World Water Day, World Health Day, Mental Health Awareness Month, and Pride Month by highlighting change-makers whose work has positively impacted their communities and the world around them in the areas of environment, agriculture, water security, conservation, sustainability, physical and mental well-being, sports, youth affairs, women's empowerment, and diversity.
DikshaDinde, 28
Campaigner for social justice and disability rights. Born paraplegic, Diksha has led educational seminars on inclusion and disability at more than 250 schools and other institutions. She is the creator and director of YOGI as well as The Womanism, another startup (Youth Organization for Green India).
Dutee Chand, 26
First athlete in India to publicly identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Olympian, and fastest woman in India in the 100 metres. Dutee made history when she successfully argued before the Court of Arbitration of Sport that female athletes shouldn't face prejudice because of their innate levels of testosterone.
GarvitaGulhati, age 21
The Water Girl of India, co-founder of Why Waste, one of India's largest youth-led water conservation organisations, has worked with her team to stop millions of litres of water from being wasted across 500,000 restaurants in India since 2015.
Dutee Chand, 26
First athlete in India to publicly identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, Olympian, and fastest woman in India in the 100 metres. Dutee made history when she successfully argued before the Court of Arbitration of Sport that female athletes shouldn't face prejudice because of their innate levels of testosterone.
GarvitaGulhati, age 21
The Water Girl of India, co-founder of Why Waste, one of India's largest youth-led water conservation organisations, has worked with her team to stop millions of litres of water from being wasted across 500,000 restaurants in India since 2015.
Nidhi Pant, 28
Co-founder of S4S Technologies, a company that trains small-holder women farmers to be entrepreneurs by combining technology, money, and the market, improving their household income by 100–200% yearly. S4S collaborates with more than 20,000 farmers and 800 female business owners, preventing the emissions of over 30,000 tonnes of CO2 in the process.
Sheetal, 26
The world's youngest woman summited Mt. Kanchenjunga in 2018 and Mt. Annapurna in 2021. In 2019, she also climbed Mount Everest. Co-founder of the adventure sports training programme Climbing Beyond The Summits, which prepares women and girls for careers in these fields. She represents the government of India's initiative to educate and empower women, "BetiBachaoBetiPadao."
SuhaniJalota, 27
Founder and CEO of the Myna Mahila Foundation, which has provided products to treat sexual and reproductive health issues as well as health education to more than 1 million women living in urban slums. By 2025, Suhani wants to expand up to offer 100,000 women jobs and 2 million women access to health care.
VarshaRaikwar, 27
Climate activist and radio host. Through the local radio station Radio Bundelkhand, Varsha has been educating residents of India's drought-prone Bundelkhand region on climate change mitigation strategies. More than 200 villages have benefited from Varsha's efforts to promote sustainable practises, which have inspired the locals to adopt water conservation and eco-friendly farming practises.
SheThePeopleTv
Although "The Women's Channel" also contains a significant amount of text-based material, SheThePeople.TV is an Indian digital media website that focuses on women-related news and entertainment in video format. Indian journalist Shaili Chopra introduced it in 2015. The first three words of the Indian constitution's preamble, "We the people," served as the inspiration for the website's moniker, "she the people.”
The platform’s founder, Shaili Chopra is an author, business journalist, and entrepreneur from India.She is well-known for her work as a business journalist at NDTV-profit and ETNOW, and she has won numerous honours, including the 2012 RamnathGoenka Award for Excellence in Business Journalism. She wrote four novels and changed careers to become an entrepreneur. SheThePeople.TV, an Indian women's television network, and GolfingIndian.com are her ventures. Feminist Rani, published by Penguin, When I Was 25, Big Connect- Social Media and Indian Politics, published by Random House, and Birdies in Business, published by Times Books are only a few of her books.
Her business-golf show Business on Course got the Best Show Award in 2008 after she received the News Television Award for the Best English Reporter in India in 2007. Chopra received the FICCI Woman Achiever Award and the Best Business Anchor Award in March 2010. At the 2012 Indian Express RNG Awards, Chopra received the RamnathGoenka Award for Excellence in Business Journalism.
