Empower 5000 drop out Adolescent Girls in Lucknow

Developing community resources child reporters brings long-term sustainable impact at ground level. Our Saloni project aiming at empowering 10-19 years adolescent girls and improving their conditions in gender critical urban slums of Lucknow has demonstrated impact value of above mentioned   community resources developed at ground level with support of Global Giving.  

Child Reporters: -Child Reporters are contributing in building the foundation for child participation and initiatives to address the issues affecting them, their families, schools and community in slums of Lucknow. They are being developed and empowered with a blend of strategies including training, exposure, interface, publication of the child centered and stories based on their issues and dialoguing with service providers.

Thirteen years old Shbabana living in Makdoomnagar and studying in 7^th standard was selected as Child Reporter under the project in 2018. She was trained to enhance her motivation and skills on communication, participation, child rights and entitlements, self-advocacy tools like story, feedback notes, drawings, applications. She was introduced along with other 30 child reporters to wider community, school teachers, local representative’s public health workers and other service providers. These project inputs and continuous mentoring guidance made Shabana  a community level change maker. She has also enrolled herself with a vocational training courses while continuing here education. While mobilizing the parents for sending their children especially girls to schools regularly, preventing child marriage, she provides feedback to the service providers. Her feedback and communication with local governance body member brought new hand pump for drinking water in the community. She collects and disseminates information to community members on government schemes. She has also been able to motivate her parents for admission of her two sisters in school. At the age of 13, she demonstrates the potential girls carry to bring change among themselves and their community. Shabana is not alone. Project has developed 30 child reporters in age group of 10-15 years in 5 slums. They are emerging as local journalists, change makers and feedback providers. Their presence in the slums and schools contributes in encouraging education, delaying child marriages, improving delivery of public services like education, health, nutrition, water, sanitation impacting above 5000  children, girls and families.