Jeru Billimoria (born July 20, 1965, Mumbai ) is one of the first social entrepreneurs and the founder of a number of international non-governmental organizations awarded with various awards. Her innovative approach to managing social enterprises and the ability to bring them to the international level provided her with scholarships from organizations such as Ashoka , the Skoll Foundation and the Schwab Social Entrepreneurship Foundation . In addition, her work was featured in Business Week [1] , The Economist [2] [3] and several books [4] [5] [6] . Her recent endeavors include en: Aflatoun (Child Savings International), Childline India and en: Child Helpline International . She is currently the founder and managing director of Child and Youth Finance International.
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| Date of Birth | July 20, 1965 (54 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Mumbai , now India in Mumbai, India |
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| Known as | Social entrepreneur , manager |
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Biography
Jeru Billimoria was born in Mumbai ( India ) in the family of an accountant and social worker. Being raised in a family with strong social convictions and having lost her father early, she could not but devote her life to social problems [7] . Billimoria earned a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from the University of Mumbai (formerly Bombay University) in 1986, a Master of Arts degree in social work from Indiana in: Tata Institute of Social Sciences in 1988, and a Master of Science degree in Management from Nonprofits at New School for Social Research University in New York in 1992. From 1991 to 1999, she was a professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
Social Entrepreneurship
In 1996, based on her work with children living in the streets of India, Jeru Billimoria created the Childline India Foundation, a 24-hour children's hotline. To increase the success achieved in India, Billimoria founded Child Helpline International, an international provider of children's hotline services. To date, this line has received more than 140 million calls in 133 countries. [6] By grouping information on the types of difficulties experienced by children, CHI is able to determine and set the policy vector of governmental and non-governmental organizations [6] . After collecting information through the hotlines, it became clear that many distress signals are related to poverty. To solve these problems, Billimoria created Aflatoun, a non-governmental organization whose goal is to tell children about their economic rights and responsibilities, as well as develop basic financial skills and habits. Today, her organization has become available to 1.3 million children in 94 countries [8] . In July 2011, Billimoria founded Child and Youth Finance International, an international network of states, financial organizations and educational institutions, whose goal is to increase the financial opportunities and participation of children and youth in financial activities, which is achieved through cooperation and resource allocation [9] .
Recognition and Rewards
Billimoria is an internationally respected advocate for empowering children. Her social and humanitarian work has touched the lives of millions of children around the world [10] . She has spoken at the World Economic Forum , the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship, as well as at several international organizations and universities. Besides:
- CYFI is included in the Top 100 Global Journal Non-Governmental Organizations and is marked as “The Most Promising New Non-Governmental Organization” (2013) [11]
- Aflatoun was included in the Top 100 Global Journal Non-Governmental Organizations (2012 and 2013) [12]
- Innovators for the Public Scholarship Awarded by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public [12]
- Schwab Scholarship for Social Entrepreneurship [13]
- Outstanding Social Entrepreneur 2012 [14]
- Skoll Social Entrepreneurship Award [10]
- Billimoria is included in Phoenix 50 for the work of Aflatoun [15]
- Union of Arab Banks Award for Working with CYFI [16]
Organizations founded by Jeru Billimory
- Telephone Helplines Association
- Credibility alliance
- Meljol
- Childline india
- en: Child Helpline International
- en: Aflatoun, Child Savings International
- Child and Youth Finance International [17]
Published works
- “Children and Change, Partners for Change” (2009)
- "Flickering Star" (Cl. 1-4) teaching aids.
- Issue of the researcher (Cl. 5-4) teaching aids.
- Children's hotline in India, series:
- Listening to Children: A General Understanding of the Children's Hotline
- Foundation Bookmark: Start
- Children's "hot line" from A to Z: a guide
- Spreading the World: Child Hotline Acquaintance Strategies
- Records of childhood experiences: Documenting a children's hotline
- National Child Protection Initiative
- "Voices of the streets: Life stories of children who took advantage of the children's" hot line "
Notes
- ↑ Businessweek - Business News, Stock market & Financial Advice . Date of treatment March 2, 2013. Archived March 23, 2013.
- ↑ Financial literacy: Getting it right on the money | The Economist . Date of treatment March 2, 2013. Archived March 23, 2013.
- ↑ The rise of the social entrepreneur | The Economist . Date of treatment March 2, 2013. Archived March 23, 2013.
- ↑ The Power of Unreasonable People, John Elkinton and Pamela Hartigan , Harvard Business Press, February 5, 2008. Jeru is introduced as a leading social entrepreneur.
- ↑ How to Change the World, David Bornstein , Oxford University Press, 2004. A chapter on Jeru's life and work with Childline India.
- ↑ 1 2 3 “The Wave Effect: How Social Entrepreneurs Promote Innovation Worldwide,” Beverly Schwartz, Jossi Bass, 2012.
- ↑ Jeroo Billimoria | Ashoka - Innovators for the Public . Date of treatment March 2, 2013.
- ↑ The Aflatoun Story . Date of treatment March 2, 2013. Archived March 23, 2013.
- ↑ About us . Date of treatment March 2, 2013. Archived March 23, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 Jeroo Billimoria “Skoll Foundation . Date of treatment March 2, 2013. Archived March 23, 2013.
- ↑ Most Promising NGOs | The Global Journal . Date of treatment March 2, 2013. Archived March 23, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 Top 100 NGOs | The Global Journal . Date of treatment March 2, 2013. Archived March 23, 2013.
- ↑ Schwab Social Entrepreneurs
- ↑ ア ー カ イ ブ さ れ た コ ピ ー . Date of treatment January 25, 2013. Archived on September 13, 2012.
- ↑ Volans / The Phoenix 50 (unavailable link) . Date of treatment March 2, 2013. Archived May 11, 2012.
- ↑ Honoring Ceremony . Date of treatment March 2, 2013. Archived March 23, 2013.
- ↑ Children & Youth Finance International . Date of treatment March 2, 2013. Archived March 23, 2013.