मैं बोलूँगी : amplifying the voice, agency and leadership of adolescent girls
Campaign by Gender Lab Foundation
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Story
This year our team along with fellows from the past years are working with 2600 adolescent girls from Mumbai and Jind, Haryana . They are facilitating workshops and creating safe spaces through Avanti Young Women Leadership Program and मैं बोलूँगी Program.
Each year, our adolescent leaders take up community action projects on issues like education, health, gender and other identity based discrimination, violence, inequality in access to resources like technology, mental health, climate crisis and more. Here are some examples of what you support can enable this year's participants to do :
These programs have empowered adolescent girls across socio-economic backgrounds with the agency to be leaders in their individual lives as well as their communities.
For more details you can read our annual report from last year
Updates
22 Nov, 2023
Avanti Young Women Leadership Program
School: Anjuman Islam, Mumbai Central
Project Topic: Knowledge Building about Neurodiversity among Teachers
The group observed that students who don’t perform well academically are often discriminated against and punished rather than attended to more carefully. They decided to spread awareness amongst the teachers about neurodiversity- what falls under it, how to identify neurodivergent students and support their growth. They performed a skit for 15 teachers in their school and made their point about how it’s okay for every child to grow differently.
School : Shiv Gurukulam, Jind
Project topic: Awareness on bullying
The group identified that the children in their school face bullying but lack the language to identify it. After explaining 4 types of bullying researched from the internet with the help of the facilitator, the group conducted a zine story book activity through which participants shared their experience of bullying and one action step they will take to reduce bullying in their classroom.
मैं बोलूँगी Program
Village name: Nirjan, Jind
Project topic : Unpaid care work
The participants had chosen this subject because they had to do a lot of household work before going to and after coming home from school. Some girls were made to leave their studies completely while some had to leave between the school hours to complete household chores. Through मैं बोलूँगी podcast created by TGL (Story name: घर के काम and काम तो काम होता है), the girls understood that it is everyone's responsibility to do household chores, but the entire burden is put on the women and girls of the house. They prepared a play and went to different areas of their village to perform it. They gave suggestions like parents should not call their girls home from school for any work, schools should impose rules and penalties against this so that everyone can understand that girls' education is as important as boys, etc. They were able to reach 45-50 people in their village through this.
Organisers
Gender Lab Foundation
Beneficiary Charity
Ayushi
Organiser
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