17 Facts About Jeroo Billimoria

Jeroo Billimoria was born on 20 July 1965 and is an Indian social entrepreneur and the founder of several international NGOs.

In 1989 Jeroo Billimoria travelled for a six months before going back to Tata Institute of Social Sciences and there becoming an instructor.

In 1996, Jeroo Billimoria created Childline India Foundation, a 24-hour emergency telephone service for children, based on her work with children living on the streets of India.

Anand Bordia, joint secretary of India's Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, had been in contact with Jeroo Billimoria about expanding Childline across the country.

Jeroo Billimoria founded Child Helpline International, an international network of emergency telephone service providers for children.

In July 2011, Jeroo Billimoria founded Child and Youth Finance International, a global network of states, financial entities and educational institutions dedicated to increasing the financial capabilities and financial inclusion of children and youth through collaboration and resource-sharing.

Recently, Jeroo Billimoria joined the advisory board of Deedmob, a social startup that is transforming the volunteering sector.

Jeroo Billimoria is founder of One Family Foundation, a small private foundation, which incubates social innovations and applies the systems change methodology to help organizations scale.

You can read her views and thoughts about social innovation on her blog: Jeroo Billimoria is Politically Incorrect.

Jeroo Billimoria is the founder of Childline, a hot-line for children homeless Indian children.

From 1996 to 2002 when Jeroo Billimoria retired, Childline received 2.7 million calls.

Jeroo Billimoria was able to connect with the local police force and hospitals.

Jeroo Billimoria was able to put medical booths in areas where many calls were coming in reporting sick children, and even trained police officers to be more aware of children on the streets around them.

Jeroo Billimoria pointed to India's laws to gain government support for Childline.

Jeroo Billimoria established Child and Youth Finance International as a system change organizations focused on furthering financial literacy and financial inclusion policies and program for young people.

Jeroo Billimoria is a speaker and advocate of economic empowerment for children.

Jeroo Billimoria has been a speaker at the World Economic Forum, the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship and several international corporations and universities.