By CREA | IMB Programme Team
Thank you for your donation to the IMB Programme at CREA. With your invaluable contributions, CREA has been able to receive the necessary funding to further support this innovative programme.
CREA’s IMB Programme is an initiative that works with adolescent girls in India to advance their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). The programme, which has been conceptualised based on 12 years of experience working in the fields of gender, sexuality, reproductive health and rights, and women’s rights, uses sports as a medium of mobilising adolescent girls to affirm their bodily autonomy in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh.
We work with 15 community based partner organisations in these states that inform adolescent girls of their SRHR in more traditional settings. Ultimately, the empowerment of adolescent girls through this programme will aid in combatting early and forced marriages, increase enrolment rates for girls in schools, improve health and SRHR services and facilities available at the community level, and, most importantly, allow our girls to recognise their independence and SRHR.
Now, in particular, is an exciting time for this programme. Our work is in full swing as CREA organises sports training and coaching camps (including the necessary equipment for them) for 300 adolescent girls in U.P., Bihar, and Jharkhand. These camps will be held across 65 villages in 9 districts of these 3 states and are scheduled to take place between January and March in 2015.
As a lead up to these camps, CREA, along with its partner organisations, is working on organising the logistics of these camps, finalising dates and venues, and confirming the participation of the girls who are part of the IMB programme. A selected cohort of 130 girl leaders from 13 partner organisations will receive specialised training and guidance to mentor and coach other girls in their villages. Coaches from Coerover Coaching Academy based in Delhi and led by Bikram Singh Tockchom (Chairman of Soccer Foundation India and President of AMMA Football Club Andro – Manipur) will facilitate these camps. With your support, CREA has already met with the sports coaches and is on a successful path towards having these camps come to meaningful fruition in the coming months.
Our girls are becoming empowered and believe in themselves, their abilities, and their agency more and more each day. As their journey continues, we hope to meet our goal of $6000 very soon and mobilise, collectivise, and empower an increased number of adoelscent girls through sports. We greatly appreciate you being a part of our efforts to end discrimination and violence against girls and young women and to advance their sexual and reproductive health and rights. We will continue to update you of our activities in the coming months as our camps kick-off in January 2015.
Photo Credits: Nari Nidhi (Bihar)
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