On the auspicious celebration of the
International Girl Childhood Day as “The Power of the Adolescent Girl:
Vision for 2030”, PVCHR is delighted to share
our small grass – root interventions making difference in the lives of the
adolescence girls of the most marginalized communities.
PVCHR implements cost – effective multi
– layers and multi – dimensional activities to adolescent girls should have the
right to a safe, educated, and healthy life, not only during these critical
formative years, but also as they mature into women. Investing in
adolescent girls helps break cycles of poverty.
Most of the adolescence girls faced
obstacle in continuing their education due to the following reasons: 1).
Security, 2) Pressure of early marriage due to which parents do not want to
spend money on higher education as they want to save money for marriage and 3).
Spending more time in sibling cares and learning for doing household work.
We provided scholarship to 110 girls
with the support from Raj Dulari Foundation, Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and DIG,
Germany. We are not only providing financial support but also creating
awareness and discourse within the adolescence girls, families and society
through the group of cadres belonging to same community.
The three young girls Chanda, Jyoti and
Pooja are the classical example who flagged a campaign ‘Will not do kitchen, I
want to get educate” campaign against child marriage in 2010. They lit the
campaign from opposing their own children marriage but also prevent other to do
so.
They are creating awareness in their
area through meeting, street march, open letter, signature campaign, slogan,
distributing promotional materials and showcasing their theatre play Sindhoor nahi Sikha, which shows the demerits of the child
marriage, Says, Lenin Raghuvanshi, Founder and CEO of PVCHR
On the 17th of August 2015 PVCHR and Raj
Dulari Foundation launched an entirely new project for the girl child, a
project called Shama; Freedom Cycle. As this is a first launch, 80
bicycles were distributed to girls who belong to marginalised communities. The
girls benefitting from this initiative explained openly that they “हमारे हौसलों में लगे सुनहरे पंख” (Our dream brimming with Golden
wings). This bicycle had provided them security and empowerment. [i]
Shabeena resident of Chiriya,
Lakhmipur in Badagaon block of Varanasi district said, “I study in class X
in Adaf Raza Inter College, Kuwar, Varanasi. Daily I have to do household work
and go to school for study. Due to that I got tired and does not manage to
continue my school daily. I feel very bad from inside when I missed my school
because my parents work hard as a daily wages labourer to pay my fees.
After being awarded with the SHAMA
Bicycle for freedom, now I am daily going to school and also became helping
hands to my parents. Now my father says Shabeena is not only my daughter but
she is my son. I want to be a teacher”.
On 6th July, 2015 we
launched a campaign Ham Jholi (friends of similar age) for
creating a broader platform for the adolescence girls not only for their
capacity building, creating awareness but 24 hours open for doing consultation
on the problem and challenges faced by them. In the first workshop around
55 girls were trained on the gender perspective, Says, Shruti Nagvanshi,
Convenor, Savitri Bai Phule Women Forum.
PVCHR sent its 23 points recommendation
to all concerned authorities to creating a better place.
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