మేము ఆమె కోసం
We, for her.
When a marriage breaks down in rural India, a woman can lose her home, her income and her place in the village overnight. We find her, stand with her, and stay until she can stand on her own.
Our vision and mission
Our vision
To create a society where women, regardless of their marital status, can live with dignity, independence, and equal opportunities.
Our mission
The We & She Foundation aims to provide support, rehabilitation, and empowerment to women, particularly those in dysfunctional or broken marriages. The organization focuses on helping women regain their confidence, independence, and a sense of purpose.
Founded in 2017, We & She is the first NGO in India dedicated to empowering divorced women and women abandoned by their husbands.
- 547
- single women rehabilitated since 2017
- 50,000+
- women and girls reached by safety and hygiene awareness campaigns
- 31
- districts of Telangana visited in 31 days
- 1
- skill centre open, with more to come
“What happens to the village women in broken marriages?”
Shravya Mandadi, founder. The question that started We & She.
A woman leaving a broken marriage in a city may find a lawyer, a job, a friend. In a village she is more likely to find silence. She is blamed for the breakdown, sent back to parents who cannot support her, and rarely told about the maintenance, pensions and protections the law already gives her.
Most have never been trained for paid work. Many have children to raise. No single scheme catches her, so we built a path that does: one woman at a time, from the first conversation to the first income.
Our method: Identify, Counsel, Train, Rehabilitate
The founder designed it in the villages of Telangana. Every woman we work with moves through all four steps, at her own pace.
Identify గుర్తించడం
We find women who have suffered a dysfunctional marriage, going village to village and door to door to reach those who would never reach us.
Counsel కౌన్సెలింగ్
We offer counselling to women experiencing depression or stress because of a broken marriage, so they can recover their confidence and decide what comes next.
Train శిక్షణ
We train women in skills chosen around their own interests, from tailoring to embroidery, so they can earn their own living.
Rehabilitate పునరావాసం
We rescue and rehabilitate women from difficult situations, with immediate assistance first and long-term support after.
One skill centre today. One in every district tomorrow.
In October 2025, nearly a decade after the foundation began, we opened our first skill centre in Ramanthapur, Hyderabad. Single women learn tailoring and maggam embroidery free of charge over three months and leave with a certificate and the means to earn.
Each centre is a small, repeatable unit: a room, a set of machines, two trainers and a steady stream of women referred by our field work. That makes it something a donor or partner can fund, measure and replicate.
31 districts in 31 days
In July 2018 our founder set out alone to visit every district of Telangana under the banner“మేము ఆమె కోసం”, We for her. No one had done it before.
Follow the journey- 31
- days on the road, 1 to 31 July 2018
- 31
- districts of Telangana, every one of them
- 4,116 km
- travelled by road
- 30,000+
- women met in their villages
Day 1 / 31
Hyderabad
Habsiguda, Hyderabad
- Day 1: Hyderabad
- Day 2: Medchal
- Day 3: Ranga Reddy
- Day 4: Vikarabad
- Day 5: Yadadri Bhuvanagiri
- Day 6: Nalgonda
- Day 7: Suryapet
- Day 8: Khammam
- Day 9: Bhadradri Kothagudem
- Day 10: Mahabubabad
- Day 11: Warangal Urban
- Day 12: Warangal Rural
- Day 13: Karimnagar
- Day 14: Rajanna Sircilla
- Day 15: Peddapalli
- Day 16: Jagtial
- Day 17: Jayashankar Bhupalpally
- Day 18: Siddipet
- Day 19: Jangaon
- Day 20: Mancherial
- Day 21: Nirmal
- Day 22: Komaram Bheem Asifabad
- Day 23: Adilabad
- Day 24: Nizamabad
- Day 25: Kamareddy
- Day 26: Medak
- Day 27: Sangareddy
- Day 28: Mahabubnagar
- Day 29: Jogulamba Gadwal
- Day 30: Wanaparthy
- Day 31: Nagarkurnool
Everything a woman needs to begin again
A broken marriage is never only a legal problem or only a money problem. So our work covers all of it.
Counselling and supportSomeone who listens, without judgement.
Skill development and trainingTraining that leads to an income of her own.
Rescue and rehabilitationImmediate help, then support for the long road.
Legal awareness and aidKnow your rights, and get help using them.
Community engagementSolutions shaped by the women who need them.
Awareness campaignsSafety, hygiene and rights, for women and girls.
“I didn’t want to just donate money or find a sponsor for them. I wanted to give them an opportunity that would enable them to be self-sustaining.”
Shravya Mandadi left a corporate career and sold her own gold bangles to found We & She in 2017. A law student and former civil services aspirant, she has spent her adult life in the villages most people only drive past.
Meet the founderPart of a global promise
Our work contributes directly to seven of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, led by Goal 5: gender equality.
- 5Gender equality
- 1No poverty
- 3Good health and well-being
- 4Quality education
- 8Decent work and economic growth
- 10Reduced inequalities
- 16Peace, justice and strong institutions
In the news
“In a novel initiative, a civil services aspirant toured 31 districts of Telangana in 31 days to get a feel of the hinterland and the hardships that rural women face.”
“Using the Identify, Counsel, Train and Rehabilitate methodology, Shravya has identified 73 women so far, out of which about 40 have already been rehabilitated.”
The story of Ramesh, a Pochampally handloom weaver who walked again after We & She arranged artificial legs for him.
Questions people ask us
What does We & She Foundation do?
We & She Foundation is a non-profit in Hyderabad, Telangana, that supports women in broken or dysfunctional marriages. Using its four-step method, Identify, Counsel, Train and Rehabilitate (ICTR), it finds women village by village, offers counselling, trains them in skills such as tailoring and embroidery, and helps them rebuild independent lives.
Who can get help from We & She?
Women whose marriages have broken down: divorced, separated, abandoned or widowed women, and women living in difficult or violent marriages. Help is free, and a woman does not have to decide anything on her first call.
How many women has We & She helped?
Since 2017 the foundation has rehabilitated 547 single women, and its safety and hygiene awareness campaigns have reached more than 50,000 women and girls.
What is the We & She skill centre?
The foundation’s first skill centre opened on 11 October 2025 in Ramanthapur, Hyderabad. It offers single women free three-month courses in tailoring and maggam (hand embroidery) work, with a certificate at the end.
What was the We for Her (Memu Aame Kosam) campaign?
From 1 to 31 July 2018, founder Shravya Mandadi travelled 4,116 km to all 31 districts of Telangana, one district a day, meeting more than 30,000 women in their villages to hear the problems they face. It was the first campaign of its kind in the state.
Who founded We & She Foundation?
Shravya Mandadi founded We & She Foundation in 2017. She was preparing for the civil services and had led a citizens’ campaign to save Hyderabad’s KBR Park before starting the foundation.
How can I support We & She?
You can donate, partner with the foundation as a company, college or institution, or volunteer your time. Every gift goes to finding, counselling, training and rehabilitating women who have nowhere else to turn.
₹5,000
is what one woman needs for a month of food and a safe roof while she rebuilds.
Our founder worked this out on the road in 2018. Many of us spend that on a weekend.
Your gift goes to counselling, legal help and skills training for women who have nowhere else to turn.