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  project name ~ Activities Support 2005-06

category ~ Women Empowerment

 
       

  

     

  Project Name

 

Activities Support 2005-06

  NGO

 

Sahiyar (Stree Sanghathan)

  Category

 

Women Empowerment

  District

 

Vadodara

  State

 

Gujarat

  Budget Approved

 

$ 10500

 

  Year Approved

 

2006

 

 
 
 
 
 

  Photographs

 

  Chapter Coordinators

 

Sivaguru Ravisankar

 

Columbus
Columbus

 

  Caption

 

 

 

  Summary

 

 

Sahiyar(Stree Sanghathan) is an organisation based in Vadodara, Gujarat established in 1984. Sahiyar works for the empowerment of women and aims at working towards a society free from any form of inequality, injustice and oppression against any human being. Sahiyar also strives to create a society in which women have equal status and recognition as human beings. Sahiyar intends to achieve (or has achieved) these objectives through awareness programs, campaigns and support services for women in need of justice.

 
 

  Achievements

 

 

Sahiyar has achieved all the goals that are slated above and in fact are one of the most well known organisations in the country that works in the general area of women''''s empowerment.

 

  Goals

 

 

Sahiyar''''s goals are multifold and is classified as, 1. Movement against violence against women : To create awareness about violence against women at home or the workplace. To this end support women in crisis, organise campaigns of protest, campaigns against sex determination and discrimination. 2. Support for adolescent girls : Group counselling, educational scholarships. 3. Organising women on a community level : Financial and legal awareness workshops. 4. Communal harmony through work with women : Campaigns and concentrated efforts with other organisations. 5. Celebration of important days (Independence day etc) in the context of women''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''s movement : 6. Support of human rights (women centered) : 7. Meeting and training of the Sahiyar volenteers : 8. Networking at the national level : Being a part of bigger national level fora. 9. Othe activites including student projects and placements, libraries and documentations, meeting with visitors and spreading the word around.

 
 

  


 
 
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