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Dr. Radhika Batra has received innumerable international and national awards and has been recognized worldwide over for her path-breaking work.

Awards & Recognition

Femina Achiever’s Award

Dr Radhika Batra recieved the Femina Achiever’s award for her pathbreaking work, fighting anemia and malnutrition in marginalised and malnourished women and children.

A truly humbling moment. Dr Radhika Batra recieves the Devi Award given by The New Indian Express group to outstanding women who have served the nation with dedication and passion.  At a star studded glittering ceremony, the Honourable Minister of Transport Mr Nitin Gadkari and the Chief Minister of Delhi Mrs Rekha Gupta presented Radhika with a shawl, a trophy and words of encouragement & praise for her work 

Message from our Founder & Pres

“There’s a blindness in the world that keeps our girls fed last, heard least, and forgotten first”, says Dr Radhika Batra. “babies are often born nutrient-depleted and fragile — three times more likely to fall ill, die young, or like it happens in half a milllion cases every year , lose their sight to Vitamin A deficiency and live in darkness forever.”

Radhika goes on to say:
“The blindness we must prevent is not just in our children’s eyes — it is in our collective vision of equality.”

“Why are girls still neglected? Why do they miss out on proper nutrition, education, healthcare, and immunisation? When will we open our eyes to the reality that girls are the future of our world?”

— Dr Radhika Batra Founder & President, Every Infant Matters .

In her relentless commitment to improving child health, Dr. Batra places a special focus on the girl child—one of the most vulnerable yet overlooked groups. Through her organisation, essential, life-saving interventions are provided to prevent avoidable childhood blindness—particularly due to hashtag#VitaminAdeficiency.

This is a preventable tragedy we cannot afford to ignore.

Globally, nearly 200,000 children suffer from Vitamin A deficiency, and around 500,000 become blind each year. The majority of these children come from the poorest communities, where access to basic hashtag#nutrition and hashtag#healthcare remains limited. The consequences are devastating—not only is their vision lost, but their physical and mental health are severely compromised. Tragically, nearly half of these children do not survive long after losing their sight.

This is not just a health issue. It is a moral failure.

The world cannot remain complicit. It is time to act—with urgency, empathy, and accountability.

“For God and my country,” says Dr Radhika Batra, when asked why she works with so much dedication, fighting hashtag#anaemia and hashtag#malnutrition in women and children.

High in the mountains of Kalimpong, just 1 km before you reach the Indo Bhutan border, there is a small church, half hidden in the Mountainside. Workers of Every Infant Matters, all local people, mostly women from tribal and backward communities, carry out vitamin A supplementation of children 0 to 5 years and deworming of teenagers and children, both government programmes that must be implemented.

“We choose to work in the most challenging geographies,” says Radhika. “We are working in waist-deep snow in district Kargil. We are there in aspirational districts such as Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh,working in the most underserved block, Lateri. We serve in Sikkim and Silvassa and rural Rajasthan.”

There’s a blindness in the world that keeps our girls fed last, heard least, and forgotten first.

Caught in a relentless cycle of anemia, early marriage, and repeated pregnancies, millions of women endure profound malnutrition and exhaustion.

And the consequences don’t end with them.

Their babies are often born nutrient-depleted and fragile — three times more likely to fall ill, die young, or like it happens in half a milllion cases every year , lose their sight to Vitamin A deficiency and live in darkness forever.

Not because we lack the science to prevent it.
But because we, as a society, have failed to nourish the very people who give life.

“The blindness we must cure is not just in our children’s eyes — it is in our collective vision of equality.”

My idea is simple:

If we want to save children, we must start with the girls.
Start with the mothers.

End the blindness that keeps women unseen and undernourished —
so that every child can begin life healthy,
and every girl is allowed not just to survive, but to thrive.

Inspiring stories from the field

1. n Kargil, in the winter months, managing medical emergencies is a seemingly insurmountable challenge due to several feet of snow on the ground, and paucity of connecting roads going right up to villages and Mohallas.
   
   Husna was pregnant with her third child when suddenly her waters burst. She panicked. The district hospital was several miles away. There was no public transport. The family elders told her to have her baby at home, as was the custom in their family and many others.
   
   This is where Every Infant Matters dedicated team of health workers swung into action. Our health workers convinced the family that hospital delivery is the safest for the mother and child, and on no account should she deliver at home. Two people carried Husna in a sling, a makeshift affair made of stakes and sheets tied together, and they carried her as far as possible over narrow snow covered tracks till they reached the main road. Someone else connected with someone who owned a van and was willing to ferry patients for a small fee. Yet another person informed the district hospital that the patient is on her way.
   
   Husna reached the hospital in time. Our team waited patiently. Husna gave birth to a healthy baby, who gave a loud and lusty cry, much the joy of her family and our staff.
   
   Another baby delivered safe and sound; another mother taken to the hospital, just in time for the delivery.
   
   Just another day for Every Infant Matters.
   
   We believe in the power of partnerships. It is because of our partnership with the Great Eastern foundation, unnikrishnan ts , Swarnima Tamang , and others in this company that we have succeeded in almost hundred percent hospital deliveries in such a challenging area.

Events and conferences

1. Dr Shelly Batra invited by the World Economic Forum to attend its Annual Summit at Davos, in 2016 and 2018

2. Invited by the World Economic Forum to Geneva, to participate in the 25th anniversary of the Schwab Foundation, and global alliance Summit, 2023

There were  3 days of excitement, meetings, and learnings, all of which will further the collective impact of ‘Schwabbies’, as we call ourselves. What a tremendous honor for Every Infant Matters.

1. Dr Radhika Batra  invited to the Indian Embassy in New York City celebrate India Day during the UNGA  week in 2025. We are honoured and humbled. This was a tremendous opportunity to represent the nation on an international platform. I am glad to say that our work of distributing vitamin A to marginalised and malnourished children has generated a lot of interest.

• Dr Radhika Batra,  invited to The Gates Foundation  Annual goalkeepers event on the evening of 22nd September, 2025 in NYC, during the UNGA week. She participated in a series of exciting events, to learn from the best in the world, and to share her own experiences and knowledge in implementing projects at grassroots level in order to fight malnutrition and anaemia.  Four years ago, Radhika was given the Gates Foundations Global Goals Goalkeepers Award for her relentless fight against the most severe atrocity of malnutrition – permanent blindness in children due to vitamin A deficiency. “ I am deeply honoured to be here,” says Radhika. “The Gates Foundation Goalkeepers award holds a special meaning for me, reflecting a journey that began a decade ago when I saw first hand the most horrifying consequence of malnutrition, children becoming irreversibly blind, and that led to the creation of Every Infant Matters. Today, I stand in solidarity with those who are the most marginalised, those who are vulnerable, the minorities, the neglected sections of society, because these are the ones who need us the most.”
• Invited to Confluence2030, an initiative of Catalyst 2030.
  
  This is in partnership with the Indian School of Development Management(ISDM) and Fields of View( FOV), that brings Corporates and Social Purpose Organisations(SPOs) together to co-create solutions on shared Sustainable Development Goals.
  
  This program brings together a cohort of 21 participants comprising senior leadership from both Corporate and Social Purpose Organisations.
  
  We will go through a 4 week engagement to build collaborative and innovative solutions to complex issues. We look forward to a month of learning, collaboration and innovation. Dr Radhika Batra and Abhinav Agrawal will participate in the Innovation Lab being held at the ISDM campus on 16th-17th June.
• “NGOs start their journey with bleeding hearts”. An absolutely true aphorism.
  
  Honoured to be invited to the @svp india conclave in Goa, hashtag#SVPGoaSummit, a 2 day immersive journey of the mind and body and spirit, in sunny climes surrounded by the wind and ocean and palm trees, providing rest and balm to bruised souls and tired minds.
  
  Wonderful to meet so many hashtag#NGO leaders and hashtag#SVP partners from across india!

1. Dr Shelly Batra invited to deliver the keynote at BW Businessworld GenZ Alpha – Young Changemaker 2.0 Edition, in Delhi   . Such an honour to meet the eminent singer Jassi and distribute awards alongside him at the BW Businessworld changemakers event at IIC in Delhi last week.
   
   Meeting Young changemakers from different walks of life has been revelation. There were athletes, writers, young entrepreneurs, and NGO leaders amongst the winners. Each had a different story. Each had a different background. What was common was a thread of courage and resilience that wove the stories together.
   
   And the icing on the cake was listening to pearls of wisdom from the other keynote speakers:
   
   ‘Live with humidity’, says Annurag Batra.
   ‘Avoid toxic people’ says Jassi.

This was a humbling experience. Young changemakers are really transforming the world. One step at a time, they are making a difference. They were young athletes, writers, NGOs leaders, and entrepreneur amongst the awardees, and each had a story of resilience and courage. We learnt so much from every person story. Delighted to say that Every Infant Matters generated a huge amount of interest amongst the audience! 

Shelly Batra -From Operating Room to dust tracks – my change-making journey.mp4

•   Dr Radhika Batra invited as speaker in the  #CatalysingChangeWeek  organised by Catalyst Now in 2025, and others in an interactive session on women and infant Health
• Dr Radhika Batra Founder & President of Every Infant Matters has been invited as a speaker at the INDIA DEVELOPMENT COALITION OF AMERICA to talk about her work in fighting anaemia and malnutrition amongst women and children at the very last mile.
• Dr Shelly Batra invited to speak in the opening plenary at the Women’s Health India conference at Le Meridien this morning. Grateful to the organisers ITEN Media for the opportunity to talk about Every Infant Matters, and our relentless fight against gender and health inequalities.

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