By DEBADUTTA DASH | Secretary
She belonged to Assam but the struggle of her and her family brought her to the Jai Hind camp of Delhi which lacked in basic aemenities on every aspects of life, be it social, economic, health, hygiene or education. The residents of the camp, even today, struggle for daily livelihood and basic needs such as shelter, healthy food, drinking water, medicine, education, and other life essentials. Child marriage has been very common in the community especially for girl child getting married in their early teens.
During a field visit, Anjuma was spotted by the Sukarya team, while she was roaming with her friend in the community. When the team convinced her to be part of the gender equality training program she was initially nonresponsive and hesitant to join and said that she had lots of work at home and looked after her younger siblings. She also shared that her mother was the only member of my family earning a livelihood by working as a housemaid. She hd lost her father many years ago. After multiple meetings and counseling with her mother, she finally joined the training program.
On the first day of training, she unwillingly came to take part in the training and in one of the sessions, she shared that she wanted to make a career in acting and dancing but she was not very optimistic due to the prevailing condition of life and trend of the slum community she was living in. She thought that the children had no future as the girl-child marriage was very common and the program won't be able to bring any change. The trainer could observe the frustration and dissatisfaction in Anjuma.
The trainer met her separately after the session and discussed everything in detail about her life, and motivated her to participate and pursue her goals in life. The next session the trainer guided her on time management and suggested watching some motivational videos which she did and shared her feedback in her group.
After three months of journey with Sukarya, once the hesitant Anjum has become a Lead Girl of the training program who motivates other girls in the community to take part in the training program. She is also very focused on stopping child marriage in her community. At the same time, she is also preparing and planning to perform on stage while working hard on her studies. The way she is progressing, it won’t be too long to see her as a successful leader.
February –April 2022
This quarter the project has completed the preparatory works to begin the new academic calendar [Project cycle] and achieved the following tasks:
Identification of community locations
Situational analysis
Meeting with community stakeholders
Parent’s orientation sessions
Enrollment of girls into the program
Making of the batches across the community
Rolling out of training for girls
Meeting with Schools authorities to seek permission to begin training in the schools
Key Satistics:
Number of community locations identified - 5
Number of Community’s Situational Analysis done - 5
Number of meetings organized with community stakeholders - 5
Number of Parent’s orientation sessions conducted - 5
Number of Girls enrolled in the program - 250
Number of batches made in the community - 5
Number of training conducted for girls - 10
Number of Lead Girls identified and developed - 10
Number of exclusive training conducted for Lead Girls - 1
Number of meetings conducted with School authorities - 8
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By Debadutta Dash | Secretary, Sukarya USA
By Debadutta Dash | Secretary, Sukarya USA
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