In order to create a social impact on a global level, Open Growth Media ventured into a flagship media property called Fuzia.
‘Fuzia’ is an online networking community and a global platform to showcase your talent and skills.
It focuses on building various theme-based media properties that help attract and build diverse and inclusive global talent networks.
They seek to uplift communities through the power of the media.
It can be anything like stories, blogs, poetry, photographs, articles, fashion, art, craft, videos, and designs.
They build one another through creative expression, experiential learning, and mutual support.
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This platform is open to every individual, both men, and women who support the cause of women empowerment, feminism, equality, and mutual support/upliftment.
Vision – Fuzia
Fuzia have built a solid global community that encourages the fusion of culture and ideas. Around the world, they see women suppressing their creative selves.
They have been seen to have a lack of knowledge on how to bring their talents to use.
Their vision is to make sure that the creativity of our audience is built to the core and no talent goes in vain.
They not only seek to find talent but also build a learning and education platform to nurture it through live sessions, campaigns, online learning, webinars, workshops, experiential learning and contests
These initiatives help their audience develop their skills and grow enormously.
As a group of individuals, they look ahead to attaining pillars of creative empowerment, community growth, individual strength, and artistic magnification.
Fuzia aspires to establish a space for women where they can express themselves with true liberty.
They believe that a society where women are strengthened is an empowered society in reality.
Mission – Fuzia
In Fuzia, the goal is to empower women through providing a platform which lets them present their ideas and talent to the world.
They seek to celebrate women and their creative zeal so that they can live their dreams.
With the talent that many women come up with, Fuzia aspires to be of their economic benefit and then place the right skill at the right place.
Their mission henceforth is to uplift fraternities through the power of our global community.
Aim – Fuzia
Inspired by the words of Maya Angelou, “Each time a woman stands for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women”
Riya Sinha, Founder of Fuzia stated, “Our definitive aim is to make every individual inspire, educate, learn, grow, empower and uplift through each other. Moreover, our start-up dreamt of making it a daily dose for the world to acknowledge women’s potential as future leaders in every walk of life”.
They thrive on making fundamental rights available to women by creating a community.
A community that helps young women see their strengths, develop self-confidence, learn from their peers and become independent leaders.
Fuzia’s sole purpose is to celebrate women and their creative zeal so that they can live their dreams.
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Belief
Fuzia believes in “she for she” and “he for she” and also consider in the fact that true ‘Empowerment’ is incomplete without men supporting it.
Moreover, they deem that an empowered woman is a happy woman and they support ‘Happiness‘ through 6 key elements.
Garnering relationships and friendships, learning and education, engagement and activities, wellness, charity and giving back, and financial independence are the elements.
Feature
Fuzia is a talent showcase platform, encouraging people to express their real selves; where they can showcase their talents, ideas, thoughts and creative selves, without the fear of being judged.
The bond, mutual admiration, fusion of cultures and ideas, and the conversation sparking through a common thread of similar passions bring people closer, in a happy, positive and empowering environment.
Founders – Fuzia
Riya Sinha:
Riya Sinha is entering her 2nd year at UC Berkeley, California, and dedicates part time to Fuzia.
Riya focuses more on initiatives such as Fuzia.TV (videos and interviews of influential women) and helps gain partnerships with other companies to support Public Relations for Fuzia.
She also promotes PR for Fuzia on all types of platforms.
Shraddha Varma:
Apart from being a management professional, an experienced marketer and an ambitious entrepreneur, Shraddha Varma is a passionate learner and a creative thinker with strong communication and leadership skills.
She believes if women are to break away from the clutches of orthodox, patriarchal, pseudo/liberal patriarchal brackets, then economic independence becomes a prerequisite for them.
As a Co-Founder, she leads the global marketing and operations in Fuzia and also drives and mentors her team in cross-culture environments.
She strongly believes in gender equality and that women are the largest reservoir of untapped talent.
Through Fuzia, she wishes to positively impact and see a world where women can come together globally and help each other grow, live their passions, pursue their dreams and build their own identity- thereby driving Gender Equality, Feminism & Empowerment.
Journey – Fuzia
Riya Sinha, Co-Founder of Fuzia, visualized the concept of Fuzia while studying at Palo Alto High School, California as an 11-year-old.
She always loved creative writing as a child, so much so that she used to write creative endings of books when she wasn’t satisfied with the end!
Riya loved writing stories, so with the help of a family friend, she wrote a book called ‘Runaway Twins’.
She thought of the plot mostly by herself, just using her own imagination. It was about a pair of twins who solve a family mystery to help save their family.
Reading her book, a 6-year-old girl came up to her with utmost exhilaration to tell Riya that she was inspired to write a book too and that she has made her realize her true calling.
The incident seeded so deep in her and made her experience the potential of inspiration.
She wanted to influence all the girls and women around the world to get inspired by each other.
Thus, in 2012 she started Fuzia as a Writing club, a platform meant for school girls to share their writings and essays.
Later, in 2015, Shraddha Varma joined Fuzia as the co-founder.
It is now fuzia.com, a venture that grew from 2 to 45 team members with the major vision of influencing and empowering creative females globally.
Currently, Fuzia has about 50,000+ active members and 4 million+ followers on social media.
Fuzia is bootstrapped and growing its business with little venture capital or outside investment.
They rely on our own revenue to operate and expand the platform.
Benefits and Offers
Fuzia is essentially a platform for all individuals to showcase their talent and creativity.
Believing that talent shared is talent encouraged, Fuzia marshals various campaigns and contents where both women and men participate globally and the entries are studied thoroughly.
They later are provided with training and career opportunities in areas of their interest and expertise.
Fuzia collaborates with their in-house talents and experts/ social media influencers, entrepreneurs, and inspirational women and organizes interactive live sessions.
They are positive that the chain of empowered men and women has taken a pace that will not satiate until each one of us is capable of living on our own and our mark in the world.
Fuzia focuses on boosting its individuals’ confidence and giving them their due recognition.
Learning with Fuzia
www.fuzia.com/ Fuzia App is like a talent hub that is home to millions of creative minds.
Here one can experience the ultimate amalgamation of creativity, learning, networking, and inspiration driven by mutual support and appreciation.
It is an exclusive talent showcase & skill development platform for individuals globally where one can garner relationships and friendships.
Learning Opportunities
Fuzia offers a lot of Skill Development opportunities to let you hone your talents and become a better version of yourself each day through learning and education, engagement, and activities.
a) Live Sessions bring to you experts and famous industry figures wherein these experts share their knowledge, tips, and thought leadership.
b) Campaigns/Contests help engage their members to uplift their confidence and perform better tasks. It is a way to let them explore their creative niche.
c) Fuzia Talent: It is Fuzia’s initiative to allow their talented members to get opportunities to earn through suitable work assignments, internships, and projects, thereby making them economically empowered too.
While we continue doing our bit to empower Future Women Leaders, we also intend to do well for society by donating 5% of our revenue from projects towards the cause of empowerment of women.
d) Humans of Fuzia: It is a dedicated section to showcase the inspiring journeys of women from all over the world.
e) Fuzia.org: It is a Social Activism platform to enhance Fuzia’s vision to empower, educate, and uplift women globally.
It is a platform for local organisations and NGOs working towards causes related to education, women empowerment, upliftment of the unprivileged, women’s health, acid attack victims, rape victims, betterment of the transgender community and a lot more.
f) Learning & Education: Fuzia is an inclusive global learning community to encourage and nurture women to become future leaders by providing opportunities to learn, grow, and get mentored by experts around the world.
g) Fuzia Wellness: It is a one-stop platform for all wellness-related requirements of women.
Fuzia organizes various offline events over the years for our members in each city, a few of them being in collaboration with Delhi Haat.
Another one was our collaboration with Pinkishe, which was aimed to help women share their voice & identify their inner selves, and many more.
However, with the current global scenario due to the global pandemic, we are hosting more of virtual events such as live sessions with industry experts, webinars, etc.
Achievements
Fuzia was awarded at The Women Economic Forum was great and initiative of helping women and empowering them was appreciated on such a prestigious platform.
It has been featured by various esteem platforms, such as Riya Sinha (Founder) has been awarded “Iconic Teen Entrepreneur and Innovator” at Women Economic Forum.
She has also been invited to TED Sonoma County where she shared her story and called out for women to believe in themselves and achieve their dreams.
Moreover, Shraddha Varma (Co-Founder) received the “Young leader creating a better world” award in 2018.
Challenges
Being into a social media industry, it is an ocean of various challenges and increasing competitiveness.
Fuzia’s biggest challenge was to sustain. They have constantly improved and improvised in terms of their product and activities.
Also, member relations helped them garner the love and support of millions. Listening to their users helped them a lot.
Be it positive feedback or criticism, they all were heard for future growth and improvement.
Future Plans
Fuzia aspires to establish a space for women where they can be free from their own little cages and express themselves with true liberty.
Their long-term plan in terms of empowering women is finding out talent and nurturing it through live sessions, campaigns, online learning, webinars, workshops, experiential learning, contests, and so on.
These initiatives help women develop their skills and grow enormously.
The talent is then showcased in every possible way through our website and various social media platforms.
With the talent that many women come up with, they aspire to be of their economic benefit and opportunity through various ways.
Fuzia aims to place the right skill at the right place, which benefits both, the company and its users economically.
Fuzia doesn’t end here! It is an ever-growing platform with millions of dreams, all uniting to one sole goal, women empowerment.
Happy be she, who wants to be!
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