Aruna Varsani is a multi-award-winning transformational leader, seasoned educationist, climate change and sustainability champion, mental health and wellness champion, resource mobilization expert, community development enthusiast, and a seasoned serial entrepreneur. She is a celebrated menstrual equity champion and a rights defender of girls, women, and vulnerable groups.
Ms. Aruna has traveled across Kenya’s counties, including the very grassroots, to give girls and women reusable sanitary products while giving them menstrual health and hygiene information, linking the needy to potential sponsors, and voicing relevant issues for adoption in policy formulation. In addition, she is a humanitarian and philanthropist with excellent expertise in strategic stakeholder management, resource mobilization, and forging collaborative partnerships to achieve greater impact.
Ms. Aruna has almost 2 decades of diverse experience in education development both in Kenya and India, covering both private and public sectors. Packed with her professional training as a teacher and educationist, she founded two vibrant academic institutions in Kenya, the Montessori Plus Center Kindergarten Kenya, handling early education development and Montessori Plus Center College, handling higher education development from 2014 and 2015, respectively.
She also founded Together for Better Foundation; an organization handling the plight of students in Kenya’s public schools. She extended its reach to the larger East African countries like Uganda and Tanzania. The entity addresses community development challenges in health, including menstrual, reproductive, and mental health; education development with diversity, equity, and inclusion at the center; creating climate change
resilience; and, generally, forging sustainable community development.
Ms. Aruna Varsani, a recipient of numerous awards, both local and international, is an inspiration to millions of women and girls in Africa.
