By Akhilesh Tewari | Project Leader
Sarathi is implementing Saloni model to empower adolescent girls in slums of Lucknow through holistic model. It carries a filed level proven strategies including community managed and adolescent girls’ friendly programming, leadership development, community based support structures and systems, life quality and vocational skills, behavioural change communication and mainstreaming with public service provisions. As a part of leadership development among adolescent girls, Sarathi has developed basic life skills curriculum and training material to create opportunities for participation, communication, expression of their choices, learning skills, gaining new knowledge and leading their development processes. Sarathi works in partnership and collaboration with a range of institutions such as Dasra, Global Giving, Feedback lab, GirlsNotBrides, government, schools to enrich our role towards empowerment of adolescent girls in an integrated manner. While positioning of adolescent girls, our model aims at addressing the issues like early marriage, girls education, gender equity, health, nutrition, hygiene, sanitation, functional literacy and livelihood to improve quality of life among them.
During the period from August 2015, Sarathi organised training programme covering 351 adolescent girls groups in 117 slums of Lucknow. This programme equipped 3581 adolescent girls with knowledge and skills for planning to address their aspirations & needs, participatory management of their groups and behaviour changes related to gender relationship, girls marriage & education,menstrural hygiene management, sanitation (use of toilets, safe drinking water etc. During this period, 21 adolescent girls participated in financial literacy programmes organised by Standard Chartered Bank located in Lucknow. Sarathi also organised one day exposure and learning workshop with SUN Pharmaceutical group on prevention of cancerous diseases in slums. These interventions have contributed in up streaming participation, learning and confidence building among adolescent girls.
While moving ahead with our model to bring adolescent girls in center of community development, we are facing fund constraints. We will request you to support our work towards empowerment of adolscent girls living in poverty stricken slums.Your support carries high impact value in terms of helping adolscent girls to help themselves.
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