By Debadutta Dash | Executive Board Member, Sukarya, USA
Kajal is in a precarious condition. She is a young adolescent living in a vulnerable situation almost everyday of his life. She has many questionsin her mind regarding her grown up status but she can hardly share it with anybody. She faces lewd remarks, teasings and innappropriate touchings on a daily basis when she steps out of her small jhuggi. Few days back when she was going to use the nearby toilet, she was groped by a few men. She cried, she shouted and she pleaded them to stop. Luckily, she was saved by few elderly women who were passing by. The story doesn't end here. This is an ongoing struggle for an adolescent girl living in a slum.
Goal of the Project:
The goal of Sukarya’s Empowering Adolescent Girls through Education project is to make the adolescent girls knowledgeable on reproductive sexual health and build their awareness on physical, social, psychological and moral aspects of life while helping them develop qualities ,capacities and attitudes so that they can live and lead a successful life on their own.
The objective is to give girls proper access to training so they can communicate with each other and speak for themselves. It is not just about protecting their health or right, it is about improving their self esteem and ensuring that they have a better chance in life. Women are often intimately involved in the running of grass roots organizations, as community mobilizes and so on. All of this helps to make women the agents of change. These girls are no exceptions. Kajal is just one of them.
Key Project Objectives:
Project Location- 2 slums of district Gurgaon.
Project Period- 1 yr [yearly extension]
Expected Outcome:
Implementation: Key Progress for first two months Preparatory phase - April and May 2017
Training details are as follows,
Conclusion: It was a good start for the year long session. The motto was to help the adolescent girls gain knowledge and awareness about their physical and mental health status and prepare them to foresee the challenges to be faced during the adolescent phase of their life so that they can live it through successfully on their own.
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