Help Young Women End the Cycle of Poverty & Violence

The growing urban poverty and disparity have adverse impact on lives of women. They face multiple disadvantages due to poverty, gender discrimination, and lack of access to higher education. The present project aims at empowering young women staying in urban settlements through employability skills training, critical life skills and linking them to jobs and other income generating options like enterprise development leading to financial independence and greater control over their own lives. Women living in urban slums face severe risks and vulnerabilities. It increases the impact of multiple disadvantages that women face due to poverty, gender discrimination, and lack of access to higher education, early marriage and limited opportunities to earn their livelihood. Additionally, lack of safety and cultural practices restricts them within the boundaries of domestic life and increases vulnerability to violence denying them opportunities to break through the cycle of poverty and oppression.

The proposed solution focuses on the socio-economic empowerment of young women staying in these urban settlements, and to provide them with an opportunity to break the cycle of poverty and discrimination. This would be done through employability skills training, providing support for education, critical life skills and linking them to jobs and other income generating options like enterprise development leading to financial independence and greater control over their own lives.

The organisation believes that the issues related to employability and social issues and crimes against women cannot be tackled in Isolation. They are in fact interrelated, and over the years, the organisation has learned to view equality and social change vis-a-vis economic reality.