Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India

by Karuna Trust
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Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Dec 4, 2012

6 month activity report

Summary of Activities and Achievements

The project has successfully continued to organise various courses and is managing to enroll new girls from the same slum areas. Girls are building their confidence, communication skills, a network of peers, and the ability to face the difficult situations they encounter. There is particular interest and success in the provision of vocational skills training, which has allowed many girls from the community to get jobs and become financially independent.

The project team has built a good rapport with both the communities that they work in and other small NGOs operating in the area.

Another notable achievement is that many girls who had previously dropped out of school have re-enrolled through their contact with the project and are now attending school regularly. Study support classes continue to help these and other girls to remain in education. Overall, girls’ education has improved greatly in these slum communities, with a number of girls successfully enrolling in university.

Specific Project Activities
  • A total of 1,188 girls have attended sessions on the importance of good nutrition, maternal and neo-natal health and raising awareness of anaemia, including 104 girls who attended haemoglobin check-up camps.
  • A total of 638 girls have attended sessions and workshops increasing their awareness and knowledge of hygiene and health. Of these, 248 girls attended health check-up camps.
  • 438 girls learnt about their bodies, with a particular emphasis on their reproductive systems, and the effects of early pregnancy. 41 of these attended pre-marriage counselling workshops. 
  • 1,627 girls have greater self-confidence, communication skills and are better equipped to respond effectively when they face violence, after: a number of life skills sessions, communication workshops, increased awareness around domestic violence and sexual abuse, and visits outside the slums, to banks, orphanages and police centres. 206 of these girls have undertaken computing or tailoring courses which will allow them to take steps towards financial self-sufficiency. 
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Karuna Trust

Location: London, England - United Kingdom
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keval shah
London, UK United Kingdom

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