Shakti Girls & Asli Boys

Two programmes, one problem, worked from both sides.

A girl who's taught to recognise danger and a boy who's taught to recognise his own is being wrong, and how to say so.

Every year, thousands of adolescent girls in our communities are pulled out of school for early marriage, or simply never told they have any protection under the law. Shakti Girls changes that. Over twelve months, girls build a peer network, learn to spot the early signs of risk, and walk away with an actual plan for what to do about it, not vague advice, a plan they've practised.

Asli Boys runs alongside it, because prevention only works from one direction if you let it. Boys are taught to question what they've absorbed about strength and control, and, the harder part, to say something when they see a friend crossing a line, instead of staying quiet.

Run together, these two programmes are changing the same households from both ends at once.

Help us reach the next village.