Locked in, safely - with MukkaMaar

Due to the pandemic and the lock-down, vulnerable, young girls from Maharashtra are unable to get education and MukkaMaar classes for self defense. MukkaMaar is providing online sessions to 40,000 students for next 6 months. For ₹450, you can help 3 girls stay safe.

Lata, 13, lives in a slum in Mumbai and studies in a Government School. When COVID hit, her MukkaMaar classes in school stopped. Her family of 8 people has 1 phone shared between 5 siblings. She was diligent in MukkaMaar class, because her uncle 'makes her do bad things' and nobody believed her. She wanted it to stop. She is unable to attend MukkaMaar online classes because

• she is told to do house-work
• her brother has other classes at the time
• she cannot exercise in front of her father
• she is unable to download a new app on the one phone they have because of low memory
• studying online uses too much data which she doesn't afford.
• In the first week of the nationwide lockdown, helplines received more than 4 Lakh calls from distressed children. Thousands of girls like Lata, are locked at home with their perpetrators and face violence every day.

MukkaMaar has served online lessons to 10.7k + students from Mumbai slums during the pandemic, online. However, there are 40k other students like Lata who cannot attend online classes. Here's how we are helping them-

We sent Lata a phone number.

• Lata got hang of the phone at night and messaged on the number
• She already had WhatsApp and so there was no memory issue
• Even though it was 11 pm, Mukki from MukkaMaar's Learning Assistant replied to her
• Lata was delighted. She quickly registered and got 500 bonus points!
• As they started chatting, Mukki sent her a few self-defense moves to practice
• Lata made a short video of herself and sent, and won more points
• Lata would pick the phone daily at whatever time she could, and learn about her rights, exercise, safety, assertiveness, negotiation and much more
• With some practice, Lata was able to deter the attacks of her uncle.
• What's more!? She keeps redeeming her points to earn Rs.100 mobile recharge every month
• Now, even her father encourages her to exercise

Mukki's Learning Assistant is a scalable, child-friendly, low-tech product that puts safety skills in the hands of the vulnerable with

• one click
• at their own time convenience
• and rewards them to stay safe

All at just Rs.150 per month per child. What if every girl who has ever felt unsafe, could push a button and change her life?

Help us deliver this powerful shield to 5300 students in the next 6 months!

In the next 6 months, your support will help pave the way to keep 1M girls safe in 2022.