Women's health · Section 8 non-profit · Since 2023

Prevention over cure.
Health as a right.

Murarijyoti Welfare Foundation is a Section 8 non-profit improving health across rural Bihar through education, research, and practical, preventive care.

We work with communities, not for them.

The Murarijyoti Welfare Foundation team with healthcare workers outside the Community Health Centre, Bihpur, Bhagalpur.

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Women reached

Through menstrual health awareness

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Menstrual cups distributed

Across schools & hospitals, free

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Free NCD screenings

Community health camps, Gogri Jamalpur

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Schools reached

Across Khagaria & Bhagalpur

§ 01 Four programmes · One belief

Our focus areas.

Four programmes across Khagaria and Bhagalpur, each built from listening to what the community actually needed, not from deciding what was good for them.

The MJWF founder holds up a menstrual cup during a community session, with women gathered around.
Menstrual Health

Menstrual Health & Cup Distribution

In Bihar, 67.5% of women still use cloth or nothing during their period. Not because they want to, but because nobody gave them a better option. We have the honest conversation, and give every woman a menstrual cup, free.

1200+ women reached · 500 cups distributed

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Women raise their hands at the launch of the cervical cancer research project with MJWF in Bihar.
Preventive Care & Research

Cervical Cancer Prevention

Cervical cancer is almost entirely preventable, yet in most villages where we work women have never heard of it. We did real research with healthcare workers and built a training programme from those conversations.

2 research phases · UK & India partners

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A man has his blood sugar checked with a finger-prick test at a free MJWF community health camp.
Preventive Care

Community Health Camps

Diabetes and hypertension do not hurt until they do. Every three months we set up free health checks in Gogri Jamalpur, open to everyone, no cost, no conditions. Anyone who needs care is referred to Referral Hospital Gogri.

670 screenings · Every 3 months

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Schoolgirls and the MJWF founder outside the school gate at Kanya Madhya Vidyalaya, Shirnia.
Youth & Hygiene

School Education

We go into schools and teach children what keeps people well: hand hygiene for everyone, menstrual health for girls with boys in the same room. Because change does not happen if only half the community is in the conversation.

10+ schools · Boys & girls together

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§ 02 Vision · Mission · Approach

Our purpose, in three notes.

Guided by one belief: that prevention is better than cure, and that public health is a basic human right.

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Vision

A future where prevention reaches every woman in rural Bihar before illness does, and where knowledge, dignity, and healthcare are never determined by where she lives.

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Mission

To bridge the gap between what communities know, what evidence shows, and what meaningful action requires.

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Approach

We work with communities, not for them. We listen first, ask the right questions, and build from what people actually need. The strongest solutions come from combining lived experience with evidence, not choosing one over the other.