Empower girls like Priti in slums in Pune, India
Summary13 year old Priti Jadhav lives in Burma Cell, a slum of corrugated iron huts in the suburbs of Pune. This empowerment project helps 1,100 girls like Priti take control of their lives.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The project has been established to support and empower adolescent girls like Priti aged 13 to 21, many of whom have dropped out of formal schooling. Discriminatory values in society and a lack of education, low self esteem and poor communication skills contribute to restricting these young women to their homes within the slums. These girls are often married at a young age (under 18) and often experience domestic violence. Health is poor in this group, largely due to lack of nutrition.
Activities
Essential life skills - communication, statutory rights, dealing with domestic violence. Vocational skills training. Health check programs e.g. respiratory tract infections, gynecological issues. Hygiene and nutrition training.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $0
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $5,000
Total Funding Goal: $5,000
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
These girls are the women and mothers of the future. If left to be ignorant of their rights they are destined to be subject to abuse and discrimination. The long term impact expected is a change in societal attitudes towards women.
Project Message
The community organiser is kind and she speaks to me with respect; I think that has made me much more confident. My sisters have seen me change and they copy me because they want to be like me.
- Priti Jadhav, 13, Beneficiary, Burma Cell slum
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Steven Murdoch
Staff Member
72 Holloway Road
London, UK N7 8JG
United Kingdom
+44 (0)207 700 3434
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Project Sponsor
Organization
Karuna Trust
72 Holloway Road
London,
England
N7 8JG
United Kingdom
+44 (0)207 700 3434
http://www.karuna.org/
Karuna Trust's Current Projects on GlobalGiving
 Support 11500 kids out of child labour & poverty |
 Support 5000 women out of sexual & economic abuse |
Karuna Trust's Funded Projects on GlobalGiving
 Education for 13,000 Children in the High Himalaya |
Where this Project is Located
Country
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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 November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 8, 2009
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