PRAKASA
Women resourcing women — globally.
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Prakasa is a women-led global movement rooted in education, skills, and storytelling.
We work alongside women and girls to expand access to education, skills, and platforms for their voices — supporting futures built on dignity, safety, and choice
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​Prakasa grew from listening to women — their needs, their creativity, and their determination to build something different for themselves and their children.
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Why Women and Girls?
Education is a critical determinant of health, economic stability, and long-term well-being.
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Around the world, women and girls experience systemic barriers to education, safety, and economic participation, particularly in rural and structurally marginalized communities.
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Globally, 1 in 10 women lives in extreme poverty, and 119 million girls remain out of school. Women are also disproportionately concentrated in informal and precarious forms of work, limiting income security, labour protections, and long-term stability.
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Evidence consistently shows that when women have access to education, skills development, and opportunities to exercise voice and decision-making power, the benefits extend beyond individual outcomes — strengthening families, communities, and future generations.
About Us.
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Prakasa was founded on a simple truth: women already hold the power to shape their lives and communities. What is often missing is access — to education, skills, resources, and platforms through which women’s voices can be heard.
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Prakasa is a women-led global movement grounded in principles of equity, dignity, and collective action. Our work is informed by a structural understanding of gendered poverty, recognizing that barriers to education, safety, and economic participation are produced and sustained through social, political, and economic systems.
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We work in partnership with women and girls in Uganda, India, and Nepal to expand access to education, vocational skills, and economic opportunities, while supporting women’s leadership and opportunities to exercise voice within their communities.
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Our approach is collaborative and community-based. Programs are developed alongside local women and partners, drawing on lived experience, cultural knowledge, and existing community strengths. We understand women not as beneficiaries of intervention, but as agents of change whose leadership is essential to sustainable impact.