Tag: Women’s empowerment
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All Women Kabaddi Competition: An Effort to Break the Barriers of Purdah
Women from over 35 villages, in Chhattisgarh, came together, organised an all-women Kabaddi Competition and shattered all stereotypes and inhibitions.
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Muheem, Empowering Women by Educating Them About Menstruation
Menstruation is still a taboo in India, while Muheem, in Varanasi, wants to initiate and normalize the conversation around menstruation.
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Bailancho Saad: Fighting Patriarchy in Goa, One Issue at a Time
Since 1986, Bailancho Saad is collaborating with different organisations, and working towards women rights, equality and dismantling patriarchy.
Success: A Women’s Self-Help Group Gets Justice
Self Help Groups (SHGs) are village-based programs usually with agendas of empowerment, development of leadership abilities, anti-poverty agendas, using financial intermediation as a starting point to these goals. In this interview, Community Correspondent Neeru Rathod speaks of how she inspired 11 women in Sonpari village in Gujarat to speak out against...