Empower 100 Girls in Asia's Largest Red Light Area

AAWC has enjoyed a wonderful monsoon!

Organisational Updates

• Festive Celebrations: This monsoon, we celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr, Gopalkala, Independence Day, Raksha Bandhan and Teachers' Day  with devotion and festive fervour.
• Accolades: Apne Aap Women’s Collective (AAWC)’s Udaan project has been shortlisted among the Top 50 projects out of more than 500 entries from 70 countries worldwide for the Project Inspire: 5 Minutes to Change the World competition, which is a joint initiative from the Singapore Committee for UN Women and MasterCard. Moreover we are now eligible to receive grants from Charities Aid Foundation (CAF).
• Capacity building: Our staff attended workshops on leveraging the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2015 as a fundraising platform, use of digital media to retain and grow donors, work-life balance for women in the 21st Century, child protection,child rights, social innovation, government schemes for PLHIV and also the NGO India Giving Back 2014 Conference-cum-exhibition organised by UBM and GuideStar India.
• Monthly medical check-ups: Umeed, Umang, and Udaan members were examined by medical teams from Reliance Foundation and Decimal Foundation and administered drugs, iron biscuits and flavoured soya milk, as per necessity.

Udaan  Updates

       Empowerment

• Career exposure visit: The girls visited the office of Pricewaterhouse Coopers(PwC) , interacted with the staff and also enjoyed fun activities.
  
  
• Career guidance: The girls attended a workshop on occupational profile and also learnt about Architecture as a career and Geography as a degree, conducted by our volunteers, Allegra and Mary.Regular computer classes have been started for girls.
  
  
• Mentoring: In collaboration with Raindancer, Project Lighthouse one-to-one mentoring programme for girls was started.

• Edutainment workshops: Our girls attended classes on English speaking, drama, ballet , drawing, diyaa-painting, theatre, clay Ganesha idol making conducted by our dedicated volunteers like Aria, Ishaan, Susan,Cindy, Fatimatou, Aria, Suzanne and the Khula Aasmaan team.
  
  
• Health  workshops: The girls attended workshops on concentration building through yoga,basic self defence techniques conducted by Aria, Mr. Lazarus John Mascarenhas, Mr. Rajendra Nair.
  
  
• Recreational excursions: Girls visited the Symphony Orchestra of India workshop and open rehearsal at NCPA.