Zarina Screwvala

Managing Trustee/ Director, Swades Foundation
India

Zarina Screwvala is a founder trustee of the Swades Foundation, which operates with the single-minded focus of empowering rural India through holistic and sustainable growth by engaging with and empowering village communities, executing multiple programmes on the ground and working towards an exit strategy.

The Swades foundation has created a unique 360-degree model of development with 350 full time staff, who work in 1900 villages impacting just under half a million people across drinking water & sanitation, nutrition, health, education, progressive farming, animal husbandry, skilling & other livelihoods.

Zarina was also one of the Founder-Directors of UTV (now a part of the Walt Disney Company India) and is an active member of New Acropolis, a school of philosophy.