Our mission is to enable women disadvantaged by gender, caste, class, ethnicity, religion, race, colour, sexuality, so that they are able to empower themselves with knowledge and skills to build a gender just society and earn a livelihood with dignity in jobs and markets that have traditionally been closed to them. Azad Foundation works with these women to enable them: - Imagine new roles for themselves - Get opportunities to work in safe and respectful environments and - Enhance not just their economic status but their self-respect and dignity as well. - Build social capital for women as they transform their own lives and those of others around them. Azad Foundation believes that when wom... read more Our mission is to enable women disadvantaged by gender, caste, class, ethnicity, religion, race, colour, sexuality, so that they are able to empower themselves with knowledge and skills to build a gender just society and earn a livelihood with dignity in jobs and markets that have traditionally been closed to them. Azad Foundation works with these women to enable them: - Imagine new roles for themselves - Get opportunities to work in safe and respectful environments and - Enhance not just their economic status but their self-respect and dignity as well. - Build social capital for women as they transform their own lives and those of others around them. Azad Foundation believes that when women are socially and economically empowered, they become catalysts of change, not just in their own lives, but in their families and communities as well.
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By Shikha Dimri | Program Implementer-Communications, Azad
The year 2023 was a mixed bag which brought both gains and losses in the achievement of gender equality in India. On a positive note, India climbed eight places in the Annual Gender Gap Report in... Read the full report ›By Shikha Dimri | Program Implementer-Communications
In its journey for over a decade, Azad Foundation has been working with the mission to address structural barriers preventing women’s entry into the workforce such as mobility restrictions,... Read the full report ›By Shikha Dimri | Program Implementer-Communications, Azad
In the year 2020-21, as the COVID pandemic altered market dynamics adversely impacting employment opportunities for four-wheeler drivers, the growing opportunities for women in the e-commerce sector... Read the full report ›
