Support 5000 women out of sexual & economic abuse
Summary
‘Untouchable’ women face caste-based sexual & economic abuse & domestic violence.The project enables women in 100 villages develop economic independence & raise their voice against injustice.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Low caste women in Marathwada, rural India, have low education levels-illiteracy high as 76%- & little control over property & animal wealth. Forced into low-paying jobs they face sexual harassment from high-caste men as well as domestic violence. 67% of women have a child marriage and the gender ratio of 927:1000 reveals female infanticide. The project will benefit 5000 women in Self-Help Groups across 100 villages and indirectly benefit 21,000 people across the area.
Activities
A ‘Flying Squad’ speedily tackles incidents of violence; 30 women ‘animators’ influence village decision-making; leadership cadre of 230 women are contact points for village women; 200 self-help groups build economic stability and confidence.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $6,539
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $51,688
Total Funding Goal: $58,228
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
Resources
- Project's External Homepage (http://www.karuna.org)
- Information on caste issues & Buddhist conversion (http://www.jambudvipa.org/sec2a.htm)
- Human Rights Watch website on caste issues (http://hrw.org/campaigns/caste/)
- Caste atrocities article in The Hindu newspaper (http://www.hindu.com/2006/11/25/stories/2006112502881100.htm)
- film resources on caste issues and violence (http://www.drishtimedia.org/)
Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
‘Untouchable’ women help themselves out of caste-based poverty and voicelessness thru gaining economic independence and taking their place in decision-making in their village and homes, and thru tackling caste-based sexual and economic exploitation.
Project Message
"The only parallel to the practice of untouchability was apartheid. Untouchability is not just social discrimination it is a blot on humanity"
- Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Steven Murdoch
Staff Member
Karuna Trust
72 Holloway Rd
London, England N7 8JG
United Kingdom
0207 700 3434
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Karuna Trust
72 Holloway Road
London,
England
N7 8JG
United Kingdom
+44 (0)207 700 3434
http://www.karuna.org/
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Where this Project is Located
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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 May 4, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 8, 2007
Latest Update from the Field
Congratulations! We're over 200 Women's Self Help Groups.
By Steven Murdoch - Project Manager, May 04, 2009 01:10 PM
I am pleased to say that as part of my induction I visited several of our projects in Maharashtra in March this year. This project was among those I visited and was the one that gave me the greatest inspiration. I met Manisha Tokale, the secretary of our project partner SPMM and many of the rest of the team. Manisha is such a powerhouse, fighting for the rights of Dalit women in the Beed district, that I have included a short profile on her in the attached report.
I visited Padalshingi, one of the villages in which women are benefiting from the project's work. Seeing the expressions on the faces of the women being addressed by Manisha was my main inspiration. I was told that the women of the village had previously had no role to play in village decisions and now they are leading the change themselves. I have mentioned in the report that this one village now has 25 women's support groups, which means that around 400 women are directly benefiting just in that one village. I have also included the case study of Alka Masukale who has started her own small scale enterprise as a result of the project.
I was particularly impressed with the structure and organization of the project. Training plays such an important part in delivering the activities and the project is ensuring that new women leaders are being recruited and trained all the time.
Of course the women's groups are one part of the work, the other, more graphical side of the project's commitment is to support Dalits who experience violence. The project team talked me through some of the atrocity cases they have been involved in and I have included details of an attack against two young women Diksha Ashruba Shinde and her sister Panchshila who the Flying Squad have assisted.
At the end of the project I have included a table which details the project's results against the objectives of each activity. I have also attached our latest Newsletter, which includes the story of Sanjivani Pawar (Beyond Fear) a beneficiary of this project. After the death of her husband Sanjivani lost her land and experienced sexual harassment from the men of the village. Since becoming involved in the project she has successfully won a Land Rights battle, is leading one of the women's self help groups and is a leader within her village.
Thank you so much for you on going support. Your generosity really is making a difference to the lives of women experiencing discrimination, sexual harassment and social exclusion.
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