Breaking taboos: How a 23-year-old's effort is empowering women in slums

The foundation aims at empowering women to speak aloud about issues that they are afraid to discuss - just like a myna bird

At 23, Suhani Jalota is setting an example that's worth emulating for all girls — of the same age, younger, or even the older ones. She is the founder of Myna Mahila Foundation — an organisation that’s providing sanitation to women at their doorstep. The foundation is one of the seven charities chosen to benefit from donations received at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. 

Jalota was all of 15 when she set up this foundation in 2011 with the mission to make menstrual hygiene affordable, generating women employment in slums and to build women networks. She knew how