From Care Kits to AI Platforms: How Two Teen Girls Built a Women's Health Nonprofit I Episode 155

Why are we still treating women's health like it's something to be ashamed of? 🩷 In this episode of Raq The Boat, I sit down with Priya and Riddhi — co-founders of HERizon Health, a nonprofit dedicated to making women's health education accessible, stigma-free, and available to everyone, especially underserved communities. These two are doing it all. Their resource library provides step-by-step healthcare guides in multiple languages to help women navigate the system and find affordable clinics. Their community outreach events have distributed care kits to nearly 100 people including immigrants and unhoused individuals. Their AI platform HERI Chat has 200 monthly users across five countries. And their podcast HERizon Talks features real healthcare professionals having honest conversations about women's health. Oh — and they're still in high school. This conversation gets real about the taboos around periods and PCOS, what it actually takes to run a nonprofit (including what goes wrong), and why being honest about both the wins and the struggles is exactly how you build community trust. In this episode we cover: 🩷 What HERizon Health is and why women's health education is still so stigmatized 📚 Their multilingual resource library helping women navigate healthcare systems 🎁 How their care kit distribution event served nearly 100 people in one day 🤖 HERI Chat — their AI women's health platform with 200 monthly users across five countries 🎙️ HERizon Talks — their podcast featuring real healthcare professionals 💬 The communication challenges of running an ambassador program — and why they're being honest about it 🔬 Priya's dream of becoming a dermatologist and Riddhi's path into biotechnology 💡 Why this generation is uniquely positioned to dismantle healthcare stigma for good 🌍 How they're using AI alongside traditional research to do their best work Priya and Riddhi started Horizon Health to check a college application box. Then something shifted — and they realized they were actually changing lives. 🎙️ Raq The Boat is hosted by Raquel Borras — youth advocate, documentary filmmaker, and founder of Raqvision LLC. This show amplifies the voices of young people ages 9–17 who are out here doing big things. 🎬 Watch the full documentary I Hear You, Gen Z — [link in bio] 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode 👍 Like this video if women's health matters to you #RaqTheBoat #HorizonHealth #WomensHealth #PCOS #PeriodHealth #HealthcareAccess #TeenFounders #WomensHealthMatters #BreakTheStigma #AIHealthcare #UnderservedCommunities #YouthLeadership #genz #genalpha