I, A Woman, Can Achieve, Anything
My name is Poonam Muttreja and I am the Executive Director of Population Foundation of India(PFI). In a career spanning 40 years, I have led organizations, nationally and internationally, including as the founder of social organizations such as SRUTI, Dastkar and Ashoka Foundation. Previously I was the country director for MacArthur Foundation India. I hold a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University.
In PFI, I co-conceived Main Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon (MKBKSH; in English: I, A Woman, Can Achieve Anything), a program to disrupt gender-biased social norms and empowerment of women. It is India’s largest entertainment-education transmedia program, powered by social and behavioral change communication (SBCC). It is a reflection of my conviction that women not only deserve better but are capable of achieving anything. To elevate them, there is a need to elevate the understanding of people and nudge behavioral and cultural shifts in society.
PFI’s edutainment program, MKBKSH, is focused on eradicating gender inequality (violence, gender-based discrimination and deprivation of women and girls’ agency). Specifically, the challenge upon us was to make communities change the behaviors that perpetuate harmful and regressive gender norms.
Believing that women’s empowerment is the key instrument to achieve equality and justice for all, the project we have proposed aims to transform behaviors and attitudes through a televised serial, amplified through multiple other platforms.
MKBKSH is an embodiment for elevating humanity. It contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals, specifically goal 5, by challenging and transforming people’s attitudes, behaviors, beliefs towards women and girls, and their role in society. It provides solutions which communities identify with and are inspired to replicate. It decisively demonstrates that women’s empowerment can be achieved through the commitment, and to the benefit of the larger community.
We are addressing patriarchy, its manifestations in norms, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors defining gender-based discrimination in India and globally. Data indicates its pervasiveness and adverse impact on women and girls:
- Child sex ratio is 899 girls per 1000 boys(SRS 2018), resultant of societal-norms perpetuating the practice of gender-biased sex-selection in India.
- 31% of women in India have never been to school. Only 14% have completed over 12 years of schooling. Early marriage forces girls to drop education.27% adolescent girls were married and 4 million became mothers(NFHS-4).Globally, 700 million adolescent girls are married and 12 million give birth each year(WHO).
- 31% married women in India experience spousal violence. Yet, only 14% reported it. Staggeringly, 52% of women and 42% of men believe that a husband is justified in beating his wife(NFHS-4). 35% of women worldwide experienced physical and/or intimate partner violence(UN).
- 30 million women in India are deprived of reproductive choices and have unmet need for family-planning(NFHS-4). 214 million women in developing regions have an unmet need for modern contraception(UN).
- Women’s representation is only 14.39% in Indian parliament. Women’s labor-force participation rate is as low as 21%(World Bank).
MKBKSH is a televised drama that showcases the struggles and triumphs of the protagonist, Dr. Sneha, as she embarks on a journey to change attitudes and behavior in her village by tackling regressive gender norms.
The program holds up a mirror to Indian society, engaging itself with norms and practices adversely impacting the status of women, including abuse, violence, sexual and reproductive health rights, early and force marriages, unpaid-work burden and more! We have used positive deviance stories from the community to build our script to offer not only aspirations but actionable solutions to the viewers. We have amplified the messages of the TV series through field interventions, digital engagement, radio, interactive voice response system (IVRS) and a Chatbot called SnehAI (enabled by artificial intelligence-AI). We use diverse platforms preferred and used by different audiences to ensure that we reach the last mile and give viewers the opportunity to contribute and feel they are part of this transformational change!
Launched in 2014, telecast across 183 episodes MKBSKH has reached more than 140 million people (400 million, counting the repeat telecasts) with documented impact.
We work with Indian communities to challenge deep-seated patriarchal norms prohibiting women from making choices. We therefore work, not only with women and girls but with men, boys, traditional authority, mothers-in-law and myriads of gatekeepers, essentially targeting the community’s gender-biased attitudes and behaviors toward women.
From the very beginning, we wanted MKBKSH to be relatable and influential. The story and characters had to emerge from the community, as transformative change can only be brought from within. For this, we embarked on a formative research and positive deviance enquiry to understand community needs, insights and wisdom to deal with regressive social-norms. These were led by Dr. Arvind Singhal, a global authority on edutainment and his research team.
We also wanted continued engagement with communities to support the effective execution of the program and to empower them with knowledge and tools for bringing about effective behavior change. We leveraged the expansive mobile-phone penetration and increased popularity of social media, especially among young people to introduce the IVRS and an AI-powered Chatbot: SnehAI. These two mediums have expanded scope of engagement with the communities, improving their knowledge, attitudes and behavior, while also giving them, especially less privileged audience members a voice.
- Elevating understanding of and between people through changing people’s attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors
“I, A Woman, can Achieve Anything” epitomizes elevating and transforming societies. We cannot improve our world without changing social norms. We, as a community, rarely think of change – especially when the status quo has been working well for the majority. We all need nudges to leave our comfort zones, even for the better. This is what our program was created for. The edutainment approach is radically different from those that we, and others, had been deploying. It has taken MKBKSH to a dramatic scale and elevated understandings of and between people by changing people’s attitudes, beliefs and behaviors.
I want every girl and woman to feel she can achieve anything. My exposure to the community, their needs and then seeing the social-landscape of forty years, convinced me that we had been unsuccessful in changing the lives of people as we had not changed social norms. Without this, people will be reluctant to change their behavior.
Our past experience using short films to communicate behavior change confirmed that people would be more inclined to discuss sensitive issues if they could relate to the messages. As television continues to be a powerful means of mass communication across India, we decided to make a television series that would raise awareness on vital gender issues.
We spent a year understanding social-norm change through global evidence on edutainment with a team of experts including the program’s creative director. We ideated, iterated and co-constructed a vision, story and creative details, enabling the program’s genesis, posed on the belief that edutainment influences positive behavior.
The program took shape as MKBKSH. The story of an empowered woman, the protagonist, who gets past the socio-cultural and gender barriers to demonstrate why social change is important, not just for women, but men and society as a whole.
When I began my career, I was an advocate in changing circumstances of women through education and skill building. However, as the years went by, my perception changed, as I realized that biases against women and the social norms that determine the same did not allow a level playing field. Regressive social norms prevent women’s mobility and freedom of choice. This led me to work on changing the narrative by changing social norms. Initially, the challenge was to find a way to deliver positive messages to millions across the country in a non-threatening manner – and the solution to it came with MKBKSH.
I have witnessed the metamorphic strength of storytelling using entertaining content and the impact it has created. Inspired by the series, as more people in the audience willingly inculcate novel behaviors in their daily lives, the norms across communities begin to shift, creating a new normal. Although we still have miles to go, I am convinced of edutainment as a tool for social transformation. I may sound like a dreamer, but I have a concrete vision and I hope to see the day when every girl and woman believes that she can achieve anything.
I have forty years of experience in the development sector across community, national and international levels. Moreover, working with national and global governments, their policy think-tanks, bilateral and UN organizations made me look at local issues from a global perspective. With my colleagues in PFI, I have harnessed my experience and commitment towards women’s rights, which is at the center of our work. This gives us a unique position to demonstrate the far reaching impact of women’s empowerment, nationally and globally.
I have pushed our boundaries to create a radical shift in our programs- transitioning from awareness on family planning to empowerment of women and girls from their rights’ perspective. This is critical for women to exercise their agency to make choices in all spheres of their lives. We have worked with multiple actors including government bodies, celebrities, donors and other partners to deliver projects that uniquely address women’s rights including a large celebrity campaign called Bas Ab Bohut Ho Gaya (Enough is Enough) that called young people to action to eliminate violence against women.
Ending discrimination against women and girls is a global struggle. We need to display a sense of urgency in addressing women’s rights-it must be made visible in the most powerful way– edutainment has offered that canvass with the right blend of content and creativity. Today, we have seen a cumulative reach of 400 million viewers of MKBKSH, yet I remain restless, as gender inequality has to become history, we have tolerated it for centuries.
Unlike in the past, the 2019 General elections in India were held in seven phases, lasting ten weeks (including-the Model code-of-conduct), making it the longest lower house elections in India. While the norm, the protracted nature of these elections were unprecedented and thus unanticipated by all. Given that we work with Doordarshan, a government broadcasting body, work during MKBKSH Season 3 was postponed. Additionally, we knew that viewership would be uncertain as India was wrapped in the political scenario unfolding before them.
I see every adversity as an opportunity, not only to learn but to reinvent. We had a commitment to Doordarshan to cover that time, so we made a month and half of content using old materials. This itself was a huge challenge as the finances, program plans, production, evaluation and monitoring had to be shifted. In a short amount of time, I got everyone on board including the production team, the governing board and donors.
Additionally, unlike previous seasons, Doordarshan was unable to give us prime-time to telecast MKBKSH. We persevered with our negotiations and ensured that MKBKSH was not only telecast at 9:30 PM on weekend nights but those episodes were re-telecast on Monday and Tuesday mornings.
As a leader, I believe that every goal approached with conviction can be achieved.
I was eighteen when I started my journey in the development sector. It was unbearable to read about caste-discrimination and untouchability throughout my schooling. I found that those considered ‘untouchable’ or low caste were those who produced material with their hands; the artisans. At this time, machine-made goods had completely eliminated the market for artisans and I was convinced that I could get that space back. I spent five years travelling to villages visiting artisans and NGOs throughout the country and learnt that people were completely unaware of the presence of such creative people. To correct this, I began product development and market management and held my first “craft bazaar” in 1978. However, my goal was not yet achieved. I wanted to create a federation of artisans and through that, Dastkar was born. Using this platform to carry out marketing, I called artisans from across India to demonstrate their craft and sell their products. I further convinced the government to buy from these artisans and eliminate the middle men. Within three years of launching Dastkar, the government started different bazaars and my vision was scaled up.
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MKBKSH’s 360° approach differentiates it from others. It stresses on reaching the last mile through a variety of interconnected media and on-ground interventions. The range of media, viz., community radio, IVRS, AI powered Chabot-SnehAI and social media allows reaching communities at scale, and promoting message-recall.
The value added impact of MKBKSH has been its ability to trigger discursive engagement. We have been extremely successful in engaging and giving people the space to open up and share their own stories on behavior change. However, what makes our program even more special is the innovation that we have injected into it through IVRS and SnehAI.
IVRS has connected and ensured direct participation of communities, allowing viewers to share their stories on a wider platform. It has the advantages of cost-effectiveness, standardized instructions, caller confidentiality, user monitoring, longitudinal assessment and access to the hard-to-reach population groups. It provides timely and authentic, user-generated feedback for programmatic improvement. Its use as a real-time tracker of audience engagement and is a trailblazer in the practice and research on edutainment.
SnehAI was a critical development, enabling greater engagement with young people, allowing them to learn and engage with issues such as relationships, harassment, consent, sexual health, identity etc. It was designed for first generation media users in low literacy areas. Its language and tone of voice were further co-created with young people. SnehAI renders itself unique because of its rich multimedia content, harvested from MKBKSH series and delivered in youth-friendly lexicon including gifs, emoticons etc.
Our team based MKBKSH on Albert Bandura’s Theory of Social Learning, Everett Roger’s Diffusion of Innovation and Theory of Para-social Interaction. The choice of edutainment as an appropriate approach based on these theories has been driven by local and global examples that have demonstrated their success in changing behaviors and attitudes on social issues.
The pathway to change and success is based on MKBKSH’s promotion of positive interpersonal communication among target audiences, which brings about an increase in subscription to positive social norms, and discourages negative and harmful norms. Through such changes in social norms, an enabling environment for interpersonal communication on previously taboo topics, can be facilitated.
Novel terms, phrases, and collective behaviors (known as markers) are also modeled on TV/radio to promote healthy and positive social norms as alternatives in the communities through MKBKSH. These are traced and tracked through audience surveys and comments on digital platforms.
MKBKSH envisaged three primary outcomes: Increased knowledge and perception among young people on issues related to gender, family planning and health entitlements; Increased engagement of young people to drive demand for quality sexual and reproductive health(SRH) services; and Increased investment to influence social norms and behavior change using edutainment for sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Our change can be demonstrated by the significant impact MKBKSH has had. Prior to Season 1, only 2% of surveyed men understood the adverse consequences of early marriage. This figure rose to 31% after Season 1. The proportion of men who considered domestic violence acceptable decreased from 66% to 44%. By the end of Season 2, 29% of married women viewers had a healthy, non-discriminatory and positive attitude towards gender roles. MKBKSH further opened a critical space for familial and spousal discussions on use of contraceptives, delaying first pregnancy and family planning. 55% married women exposed to the serial initiated discussion on various themes with their spouses. These results underline the relevance of the program, as it has succeeded in filling an existing information gap on pertinent issues and has a potential for social change.
- Women & Girls
- Pregnant Women
- Rural
- Peri-Urban
- Low-Income
- 3. Good Health and Well-Being
- 5. Gender Equality
- 6. Clean Water and Sanitation
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Current Reach: Broadcast Audience Research Council marks the total cumulative reach of MKBKSH at 140 million across three Seasons. Additionally, Prasar Bharti, India’s public service broadcaster has determined a reach of 400 million, including data on viewership of reruns and broadcast on regional channels.
Reach in 1 year: We will have a cumulative reach of 100 million including our continuing work on raising awareness on COVID-19 through the MKBKSH platform. This includes the rising reach of SnehAI, campaigns on Facebook and YouTube, the planned broadcast of Season 4 and reruns of previous Seasons on national and regional networks. Our 360° approach makes this an achievable ambition bolstered by the 90% penetration of Doordarshan and the rise of internet access and users on social media platforms, especially young people.
Reach in 5 years: Based on Dr. Pramath Sinha’s comprehensive assessment of available opportunities, we will reach an additional 350 million people in the next 5 years or earlier. This can be achieved through effective distribution channels including television, radio, digital media, community outreach etc. The increasing fragmentation of audiences, makes it essential for us to be available across as many platforms as possible. Specifically, young people in India have driven the adoption of internet services and online platforms, offering a rich opportunity to increase our outreach to them. We will look to not only continuing our partnership with Doordarshan but expand into satellite television channels, digital media including Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube.
At the beginning of this year, I had a very clear goal of launching MKBKSH Season 4 and strengthening our digital engagement with greater investments into our Chatbot and the exploration of other platforms.
However, COVID-19 threw a wrench into my initial plans. Despite this, we have taken up the challenge of supporting the national and state governments by using our skills in behavior change communication. Never before was there such an urgent need for behavior change at a fast pace, whether it be physical distancing or hygienic practices. This has only been possible because of our extraordinary experience with MKBKSH and the 360° approach.
In the next year, my goal is to re-initiate the preparation for MKBKSH Season 4 which will be shaped by the greater use of digital technology and television in India due to the fact that physical distancing is the new norm.
I have three goals for the next five years. The first is that “I, A Woman, Can Achieve Anything” becomes the slogan for all women in India. The second is stepping up for young people, for them to have access to safe and accurate information and not misinformation on their SRH and mental health. The third is to change the norm of program delivery in the development sector itself. In five years, I want PFI to be at the forefront of that change, supporting scale up and replication of behavior change communication, whether for health, education, environment, social justice, police reform etc.
COVID-19: The novel coronavirus has taken every sector by storm. There has been severe impact on the economy, education, individual livelihood as well as social development including greater child marriage, teenage pregnancy, child labor and greater mental distress. Additionally, the development sector has seen a setback given that we not only have to realign existing programs but design all new programs based on contingency of COVID. The production of the tele-series depends on the safety that we can offer during these times which are not in our hands until a cure or vaccine is well in place.
Financial: A significant challenge in delivering impact has been the lack of understanding on the importance and efficacy of entertainment education within the philanthropic community. Given the limited academic research and evidence of the above, the transition of funding from IEC to entertainment education and other forms of social and behavior change communication has been slow. Additionally, time-bound, target-focused philanthropy is not compatible to changing social norms.
Technical: The televised series of MKBKSH is currently broadcast on Doordarshan, India’s national broadcasting channel. Due to restrictions, we cannot broadcast the show on both a public channel such as Doordarshan as well as private channels available in India. The latter would allow greater reach as well as advertising money.
COVID-19: Our experience with digital programming including large-scale campaigns, web series, Chatbot, communication material and MKBKSH online, has allowed us to work in creative ways. We are already using the MKBKSH umbrella to create edutainment material on COVID-19, using the opportunity provided to us by our current partnerships with Facebook and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Government of India).
Financial: To overcome the challenge of philanthropic support in an area with limited research, PFI brought in one of the very few and eminent academics in the area of SBCC, Dr. Arvind Singhal, to guide and support the development of the program. Furthermore, PFI has invested in rigorous external evaluations to continue building the knowledge of the approach and thereby draw greater funding. Additionally, while behavior change has not been a priority in India, the Government has begun to see the approach’s efficacy to solve some of the major issues within the country and we have seen an increase in the demand for the same. This increase in demand will soon begin to translate into monitory support. We have already witnessed one instance where the Ministry of Water and Sanitation along with a public organization, Rural Electrification Corporation, supported MKBKSH Season 3 as they wanted us to generate edutainment on hygienic practices.
Technical: We are currently exploring and will expand the search to look for potential opportunities of broadcasting MKBKSH through digital platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime.
- Bombay Local Pictures is the production company of MKBKSH’s director, Mr. Feroz Abbas Khan, a popular theatre and film director. He has been the creative director for MKBKSH for all three Seasons and his production house has produced the program for television
- Gram Vaani is a social-tech company that designs simple technology based on social contexts. They supported us in developing the IVRS and set up community radio where the reach of IVRS, television and national radio was poor.
- AI for Good is an organization that uses AI to tackle some of the toughest humanitarian challenges. They work towards creating scalable, innovative technologies that address the needs of the underserved. They are our partner for SnehAI, the AI-powered Chatbot wherein they provide the backend technological support.
- Men Against Rape and Discrimination is a social initiative, founded by Indian actor Mr. Farhan Akhtar, designed to create awareness to instill gender equality and respect towards women. They are our solidarity partner towards bringing men and boys as allies to our cause.
- 14 on-ground partners in the states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh lead the direct interface with communities. They have helped us convene viewer groups, promoting the IVRS and facilitating discussions with young girls and boys on pertinent social issues raised in the televised serial. The girls’ groups called Sneha and boys groups called Munna have facilitated greater engagement of young people in reflection on issues raised.
Objective and Value proposition to beneficiaries: The objective is to eradicate regressive social norms that deter women from exercising their agency and making decisions. The direct value proposition offered to our beneficiaries through MKBKSH is its 360° transmedia approach to engage communities in critical behavior change through an entertaining medium.
Strategy and Implementation: The program is delivered through multiple channels including television, national radio, community/local radios, IVRS, AI-powered Chatbot, interpersonal and other communication initiatives. Our strategy going forward is to build partnerships with Netflix, Amazon Prime and satellite channels to not only increase viewership but also revenue opportunities. Additionally, we have an increased focus in supporting young people’s wellbeing and will strengthen the Chatbot to provide greater support on mental health and online safety with Sangath and Family Online Safety Institute(FOSI).
Value Proposition for donors and partners: I want PFI to become the forerunner in guiding the development sector in adopting behavior change communication to address root causes of all issues. We have laid emphasis on evaluation and generation of learning for this reason and Dr. Arvind Singhal, a leading global voice in edutainment has been supporting us with the same. Additionally, Roel Lutkenhaus, a PhD candidate in Erasmus University Rotterdam has based a chapter of his thesis on MKBKSH. Partners and donors of MKBKSH will benefit with significant evidence of the efficacy of the approach. This will be supported by World Bank which has commissioned a case study on the 360° approach to be carried out by Oxford University.
Making a social and behavior change communication initiative financially sustainable is a difficult proposition given that behavior change is a slow process requiring constant message recall for re-socialization. Additionally, in a country like ours where there is rampant hunger, poverty, malnourishment and deprivation, behavior change does not immediately appeal to the psyche of individual donors. There is interest among institutional donors including UN organizations to adopt SBCC in their programs. We are in discussion with prospective donors.
We will move into the arena of crowdfunding and experiment with the opportunity it provides in order to continue our work, however we hold the understanding that this will be a slow process that we will complement by rigorous evaluations to build the understanding of the country on the efficacy of our approach to hit problems at their root causes.
Additionally, we are considering a commercial film on the issues that we work on in order to generate revenue as well as move into the arena of web series. The creative director of MKBKSH is well-known in the Indian film industry. This assures us of quality production and wide marketing for the film. A commercial film would not only give more visibility for support for long term sustenance of the program. Overall we are looking at different options and ideas for revenue generation. My idea is to have diversified revenue generation model.
Since 2013, we have raised USD 9,577,293 from various donors in grant funding. These donors include the Department for International Development (United Kingdom), UNFPA, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rural Electrification Corporation, Private corporate social responsibility as well as Population Foundation of India’s core funding.
In the last 12 months (the financial year 2019-2020), we have raised 2,336,597 USD. The break up is provided below:
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) : 1,505,654 USD
- Rural Electrification Corporation (REC): 778,087 USD
- Private Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): 35,714 USD
- Core Funding of Population Foundation of India: 17,141 USD
Our Plans for Season 4 implementation and revenue generation/business development discussion with potential donors came to a halt due to the COVID19 pandemic. The pandemic has compelled us to revise our program and revenue generation plan. We seek to raise 5,280,356 USD in grant funding for the production, broadcast and promotion of Season 4 of MKBKSH, to run the components of the 360° approach including the IVRS and SnehAI as well as continue our COVID-19 behavior change response. We hope to raise these funds by early to mid-2021. We have already secured close to 750,000 USD in donor funding for SnehAI
Our estimated expenses for 2020 include costs towards maintaining and running our Chatbot (SnehAI), carrying out evaluation of MKBKSH Season 3 as well as supporting behavior change online activities as a response to COVID-19. The estimate is 1,003,228 USD.
The Elevate Prize will provide recognition of the efficacy of the social and behavior change communication and edutainment approach to positively disrupt entrenched negative norms and behaviors. Given the long term and sustained commitment required for an impact to be seen, global evidence of the efficacy of this model is sparse and not yet widely recognized. Therefore, our efforts to create evidence of its efficacy has been systematic through scientific evaluations and learning exercises. These efforts being led by eminent academics and evaluators of global standing. In the same vein is our effort to collaborate with academic institutes of international credence for further refinement of the approach and create knowledge building initiatives for development practitioners in the SBCC arena.
The Elevate Prize will provide us with the platform to raise the profile of this approach and to facilitate wider global recognition of SBCC impact. We hope this will help us not only in generating more investments but also in seeing a more widespread adoption of the approach across fields and countries. Through sustaining our work and developing evidence, we will be well positioned to popularize and lead the way to transfer the approach applied under MKBKSH to several other geographies across the globe and to further collaborate with others in the field.
- Funding and revenue model
- Board members or advisors
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Marketing, media, and exposure
We want to establish local and global giving strategies towards behavior change communication programs.
Given that the efficacy of our approach is not well known among the philanthropic community or masses in general, there is a barrier in raising funds to sustain our social and behavior change work, especially since change in behavior is gradual.
We want partners to support us in developing a funding model. This would specifically include support in reaching new markets such as commercial movies and web series that can generate revenue. Additionally, we are always searching for new partners to evaluate our work in order to generate a body of evidence that can support establishing a new norm towards development work. Finally, and in a complementary effort, we would require support in marketing and creating exposure of not only MKBKSH but the approach itself based on our learnings and plans for the future.
We are already partnering with several organizations including donors (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rural Electrification Corporation Foundation, DFID, UK), UN organizations (UNFPA and UN Women); Government of India including ministries of Health and Family Welfare and Water and Sanitation and state governments that send our material to 3.3 million frontline workers through WhatsApp.
I have already provided details on our critical production partner (Bombay Local Pictures), distribution partners (Doordarshan- reaches 90% of India, and All India Radio- reaches 99.2% of India) and development partners - Gram Vaani and AI for Good. Celebrities such as Farhan Akhtar (along with MARD), Shabana Azmi, Sharmila Tagore, Soha Ali Khan have been our solidarity partners and have supported promotion of MKBKSH. Researchers from the Universities of Texas, Rotterdam and Buffalo have supported us in evaluation of our program.
As we move ahead to achieve the goals we have set out, we are exploring partnerships with digital media providers such as Netflix, Amazon Prime. We hope to expand our horizons through these platforms and create a social and behavior change revolution over digital media. Supporting us here, would be our long-term partner Facebook whose platform we use to promote our content and carry out live events (our celebrity concert to promote Season 3 reached over 10 million people).
We will also draw critical support from Family-Online-Safety-Institute and Sangath in strengthening our outreach to young people online by providing them with a safe and non-judgmental space through SnehAI for their mental health and online safety.