She Leads Bharat
She Leads Bharat is the first AI innovative platform in India to help last-mile communities access rural markets, and the only initiative to put women in rural communities at the centre of their own economic growth and freedom.
Mission
Ensuring women’s voices are heard
We are committed to ensuring that all voices are heard. By tackling the challenges they face with sustainable solutions, we address the larger social and economic needs of their rural communities.
We are building a movement of women – our Sahelis - to reach India’s 800 million unseen and under-served population, equipping them with our pioneering technology, unwavering support, and the access to everyday life’s essential products and services and the opportunities they need to achieve the financial freedom to transform their lives and the lives of their communities.
A Saheli’s Story
Through She Leads Bharat Renu has become part of the transformative effect of the movement. A powerful network of thousands of women who are becoming self-reliant and giving livelihoods to other women, creating value for society.
The Challenge
The challenges in rural India require unique, innovative, multi-layered, scalable solutions that address immediate needs while driving long-term economic transformation.
Across last-mile India, over 800 million people—most of them in rural, underserved communities—live in a reality defined by scarcity. These families face systemic, patriarchal challenges and in most cases, lack the most basic life essentials: clean water, adequate shelter, and access to safe heat and light, Traditional issue-based philanthropy has attempted to address these challenges in silos—with individual interventions in health, education, or climate resilience. But the root issue remains; without a foundational shift in agency and economic access, sustainable change is out of reach.
Our approach, developed in collaboration with women living in rural communities, is both socially transformative and economically viable. Most importantly, it places power and opportunity directly into the hands of those who need it most.
Frontier Innovations Foundation, along with their technology and delivery partner, Frontier Markets, have established the She Leads Bharat Initiative to tackle these challenges in a systemic and sustainable way.
At the centre of the model is the Saheli Network—local women trained and empowered as economic agents, advocates, and trusted voices within their villages. These women are not just beneficiaries; they are the architects of progress.
- Unlocking 100 million voices in marginalized communities
- Reaching 800 million underserved people
- Building resilience and realising the untapped potential of 100 million women entrepreneurs
- Providing access to vital products and services to within 15 minutes of rural communities
Our Solution
The Meri Saheli App
At the heart of our initiative is The Meri Saheli App. A ground-breaking AI-powered mobile platform designed to tackle complex challenges with simple, scalable solutions.
In the hands of our 36,000 strong Saheli community, this intuitive platform serves as a virtual marketplace, providing access to sustainable solutions:
- Clean energy solutions
- Financial services (banking, microfinance, insurance)
- Climate friendly agricultural supplies
- Consumer goods and services
- Durable products
The results so far
In just a decade, we’ve trained 36,000+ women across 5 states in India. Today, they’ve delivered 100 million solutions to 4.3 million rural households – generating $100 million in revenue, elevating Saheli’s incomes by 100% within their first year.