Teena B. Dhabale is a community architect in Ahmedabad, who works with Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) to assist women from the community to design and build homes that can function as muti-functional spaces that to support both work and domestic life.
Sonal Brahmbhatt is a community organizer who brings local women together to form community action groups around common concerns. Women tell the history of their community, vote on which issues they feel are most pressing, select leaders for initiatives, learn processes for implementing basic services and how to work with local government.
Sonal Brahmbhatt is a community organizer with Mahila Housing Trust, who brings local women together to form community action groups around common concerns.
Hasit Ganatra is a social entrepreneur who invented a lightweight, low-cost, modular roof that protects residents from the effects of extreme heat and rain and can be moved if necessary.
Teena B. Dhabale is a community architect in Ahmedabad, who works with Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) to assist women from the community to design and build homes that can function as muti-functional spaces that to support both work and domestic life.
Teena B. Dhabale is a community architect in Ahmedabad, who works with Mahila Housing Trust (MHT) to assist women from the community to design and build homes that can function as muti-functional spaces that to support both work and domestic life.
Somsook Boonyabancha, is Chairperson, Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR), a regional network of grassroots community organizations, NGO’s and professionals actively involved with urban poor development processes in Asian cities; former Director of the Community Organization Development Institute (CODI); Chairperson, of the Baan Mankong Program Committee.
Boonyabancha has been working and facilitating sustainable, equitable collective housing development and slum upgrading in Thailand and other Asian countries for 30 years – specializing in community-led initiatives. As director of CODI, she fostered a “city-wide” approach to community upgrading that has been replicated in cities across Thailand. She is based in Bangkok, Thailand.