User:Rachana Dhabalia/sandbox

= Fuzia = ''Fuzia is a global organization run by women through creative support and mutual learning. It is the flagship initiative of its parent company, OpenGrowth Media Private Limited. Based in Mumbai, India, with its headquarters in California, Fuzia is the biggest online platform created for women empowerment. It stands as a mode of fusion of different cultures and ideas.''

It is a unique platform that helps bring out creative expressions of women from around the world with the help of their talent and expression. It provides a safe online space to express, learn, create and grow.

''Working remotely, it has bridged the geographical and social gap to reach out to women from various underdeveloped and distant lands. It has extended its help to many from the rural to the urban. It is recognized as a community which empowers women financially and mentally through self-help resources and various job opportunities.''

''The online community of Fuzia has a 6 million supporter base and has more than 50 thousand active contributors on their website. These contributors belong to 35+ different countries.''

''Fuzia connects women from different parts of the world. It looks forward to sparking a change in the young people’s mindsets and bringing them together on a common platform to have them realize that the staircase to success lies in self belief. What makes this community different is its belief in yet-to-become-successful women.''

History
''Riya Sinha founded Fuzia in August, 2012. Influenced by an incident where a kid, who after reading her book ‘Runaway Twins’, told her that she felt inspired by her and wanted to write and create, Riya decided to lay the foundation of Fuzia, to provide a platform of expression to women from all across the globe.''

''Fuzia began as ‘Fuzia Writing Club’ in 2012, wherein school girls shared their writings with each other. Today, it is an independent venture led by Shraddha Varma, that has grown from 2 to 35 team members who’ve made it a mission of their lives to empower creative women globally.''

''The two women shaped their idea and vision to connect women globally. Thus, a unique concept of merging social media and self-development came into being wherein the core values remain the same- educate, learn and empower.''

Since then, there are no age brackets or geographical location barriers in the company. Fuzia continues to affect millions of lives by providing them with a space to shape their career and be economically independent.

Board
1.    Gunjan Sinha, Chairman

2.    Shraddha Varma, Co-Founder

3.    Riya Sinha, Co-Founder

Product and Services
''Fuzia Website helps bring out creative expressions of women with the help of their talent and expression. This online women’s networking community hosts a variety of programs allowing women to present their ideas and share their talent with the world. On Fuzia, anyone can post their views, opinion, creative works, and voices, safely and securely. The platform allows women to express themselves freely to a global audience in a judgment-free zone.''

''Young photographers, artists, creative and opinion writers, bloggers, and crafters can log on and place their bright and distinctive works on the Fuzia website. The website is a conduit to robust debates on significant issues.''

''Fuzia also fosters women empowerment in the form of job hunting, linking up applicants with proper channels. It arranges periodic competitions, writing and art contests, technology workshops and forums, and live talks from women leaders.''

Social Media
Fuzia as a social networking site has succeeded in creating a safe space for women to express themselves. As young entrepreneurs, both Sinha and Varma came up with a concept that harnessed the accessibility of the internet, social media, and smartphones and connected the dots with technology.

''Fuzia maintains an active presence over Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Fuzia App and more with subcategories and pages. Initially, in the first year, they gathered more than 1 million supporters, and since then, growth traffic has increased by up to 35-45% each month. They believe that with virtual togetherness, real connection happens.''

Being an online platform (also available as an App) and promoting remote work culture, Fuzia has been able to reach out to underdeveloped societies in distant countries, thereby bringing the rural closer to the urban milieu.

Fuzia seeks to achieve the goal in which enabling technology, especially information and communication, is used to promote women empowerment.

Reception
''Fuzia has seen rapid growth since it was launched in the year 2012. It now has 50,000 active contributors globally and around 6 million users on the Fuzia website.''

Awards

 * 1) Fuzia has gained global recognition and was awarded and featured in the Women's Economic Forum in the year 2018.
 * 2) Shraddha Varma received the "Young leader creating a better world for all"  award by the Women’s Economic Forum in 2018.
 * 3) Riya Sinha received the ‘Iconic teen Entrepreneur’ award by Women’s Economic Forum in 2017. Sinha shared her vision of Fuzia at the Women’s Economic Forum saying that, “Through Fuzia, I want to redefine feminism in modern times. I want women to come together and empower each other towards a common goal”.
 * 4) Riya Sinha was also invited to the TEDx talks in the year 2018.

Media Spotlight
Fuzia has been recognized by reputed platforms like the Inter Press Release, UN Bureau , Forbes, Dainik Bhaskar , Mashable Pakistan and Hindustan Times .

Society
Fuzia serves as a platform for social activism and caters to various NGOs and local organisations with causes related to education & learning, women empowerment, voicing out the unprivileged, women’s health, acid attack, rape and the transgender community.

Fuzia is rooted in the fifth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), which aims to end all forms of discrimination, violence, harmful practices for women.

''Fuzia also supports the LGBTQ community and provides a safe space for them to voice their concerns and seek help. It welcomes people with different gender identities, including male, female, transgender, gender-neutral, non-binary, agender, pangender, genderqueer, two-spirit, third gender, and all, none or a combination of these.''