Empower Indian Women With Legal Aid and Training

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Summary

Empowering village women with legal awareness training will make them better able to address issues of dowry, sexual harassment and domestic violence. progress reportread updates from the field

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Thanks to donors like you, a total of $4,000 was raised for this project.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh, the most poverty-stricken area of the state, women have been able to escape conditions of destitution and provide for their families with access to revolving loans and vocational training from the S.F.T. Training Centre. The Centre now seeks to provide legal-awareness training and set up a legal-aid center.

Activities

The S.F.T. Training Centre will provide legal- awareness training for community women’s groups; set up awareness camps, which address the specific issues of dowry, sexual harassment, and domestic violence; and create a legal-aid center.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $4,000

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $4,000.  The original project funding goal was $4,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

An understanding of their fundamental rights will allow the women of the Telengana region to lobby the local government for legal changes.

Project Message

"Trust our women."
- Syeda Faizunnisa, S.F.T. Training Centre

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Supriya Rao,
Programs Associate, Nirnaya
# 11, Deepti Apartments
S.P.Road
Secunderbad- 26, A.P.,
India
91-40-27805089
Email:

Project Sponsor

Women's Funding Network

Organization

Nirnaya Trust
Flat # 11 Deepti Apts
S.P. Road
Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh 500003
India
91-40-27805089
http://www.nirnaya.org

Learn more about Nirnaya Trust and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Women and Girls.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on May 02, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 30, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

Empowerment experienced

By Indira Jena - Managing Trustee, May 02, 2007 05:46 PM

A program ‘Women’s rights are human rights’ was held on December 10,2006 in Kurnool. It was a two-hour program wherein issues regarding gender and child labor were addressed.150 women from the various self-help groups, 50 students, representatives from 5 NGOs in the area and 4 media representatives had gathered for the meeting. Smt. V. Nagalaksmi Devi, Advocate explained in detail the Fundamental and Civil Rights enshrined in the Indian Constitution and that the violation of every right comes under the purview of the Human Rights Act. She conducted an interactive session with the participants. She answered and clarified questions and doubts related to Human Rights raised by the participants. Participants sought practical solutions to some of their issues. Other government officials were present at the meeting.

A member from each of the 5 self-help groups was selected as paralegal workers. A resolution to this effect was passed on November 20,2006.These paralegal workers were sent for a weeklong training at CDS Meeting Hall, Municipal Corporation, Kurnool by APUSP on Awareness on Health, Promotion of SHGs, Bookkeeping, and Women’s Issues for the week December 4- 9.2006. The paralegal workers imparted training on Book keeping to self-help groups of Telugu Veedhi so that they are able to efficiently maintain accounts of their daily income / expenditure, profit margin and scale possibility of their micor credit ventures which have been extended by the local banks as well as Nirnaya. this knwoledge helps the women with extermely low education levels to ensure that they are not exploited by vested interests. The para legal training has impressed upon these women the need to have documentary evidence for proving their point and making their case.

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