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Swarna Rajagopalan

One in every three women experiences abuse in her lifetime. Only one in four of them tells another person about this. Look around you. How much violence? How much silence? Violence is everywhere--in every space, public and private; in every community and class; at every life-stage. And so is impunity; few ever seem to be punished for sexual harassment.How do we change this reality? At Prajnya, we think the way to do this is to learn to recognise violence when it happens to us and around us. We believe that people need to speak about violence, aloud and to each other. Talking, sharing and learning about legal recourse, service providers and bystander intervention, and thinking critically about our attitudes and assumptions is the only way to end this epidemic that causes so much suffering every day. 
 Prajnya has worked since 2008 to create this awareness around the prevalence and forms of sexual and gender-based violence that people experience in the course of a lifetime: from sex-selective abortion to sexual harassment and rape to domestic violence and dowry death to elder abuse to cyber-space harassment to sexual violence in conflict.The Prajnya team reaches out year-round:<ul><li>to facilitate discussions among family and friends’ groups; clubs; residential societies and offices;</li><li>to conduct workshops for college students and other youth on gender sensitisation and violence;</li><li>to enable individuals to speak out and share through safe dialogue spaces and platforms for creative expression;</li><li>to sensitise service providers who might encounter violence survivors in the course of their work.</li><li>to support research on topics related to gender violence in India and make research and data accessible.</li></ul>Since 2008, in addition, we have organised eleven editions of the Prajnya 16 Days Campaign against Gender Violence between November 25 and December 10, both online and in-person, reaching out to new audiences to inform and engage with them, informally, formally, creatively about the issues--changing the world, one conversation at a time. You can be part of this movement by supporting our work. 
 At Prajnya, we believe that the individual is the basic unit of social change. When individuals engage, learn and share about issues, they move towards action--whether to help a neighbour, or to speak out about an issue, or to discuss with others, or in the way they vote. Our programmes reach out to individuals in small and large groups, and with each individual that participates, we set in motion a shift in the process of thinking. We enable them to see themselves as having help, hope and agency.We are confident that when we reach out to and engage individuals, at home, at work and at play, we create a coalition for lasting change on this critical issue, which hurts countless individuals, affects productivity and morale and ultimately is a public health crisis.

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Ending the Silence around Gender Violence

Since 2008, Prajnya has worked to promote peace, justice and security in the broadest sense. We raise awareness about gender-based violence and its prevention. We document women's history and advocate for women's greater participation in public affairs. We have a peace education programme that works with schools, teachers and students and includes citizenship education initiatives. Our theory of change is that when we understand better and know more, our attitudes and practices, our sensitivity transforms the world to a more just and peaceful place.

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The Prajnya Trust

This nonprofit is registered as a charitable trust under section 12A of India's Income Tax Act, 1961.

This nonprofit is registered under section 80G of India's Income Tax Act, 1961. This means you can deduct 50% of the donation you made through your tax return.

Prajnya Trust

Prajnya turned 16 this September. We have come a very long way, in terms of work, from where we started in 2006-07. Our gender violence awareness work has grown considerably, becoming through campaigns, training programmes, research and policy interventions our most high-profile area of activity. Oral history and the visual archives have been the quiet heart of our work on women in public life. Our peace education work has persisted like water past resource challenges-, finding openings where it could–schools, youth centers, teacher training programmes and creative writing. We are grateful that we have built a large community around our work–in Chennai and online–and a reputation for doing that work with integrity and warmth. What remains unchanged, however, is our financial situation. We have been unable to build a team of salaried professionals at Prajnya and while it has not stopped the volunteers who make up our core from still doing whatever we can, this is no longer sustainable for us. Closure involves two processes–digital archiving of almost two decades of work and compliance work. We also have projects in the pipeline that will only end in 2024. We estimate it will take till the end of the 2024-25 financial year to truly wind up. We want 2024 to be our best, our most outgoing, our most creative year. We anticipate that our operational costs, including hiring a full-time Programme Officer, will be Rs.15 lakhs. We are hoping five of our friends will donate Rs. 3 lakhs each. We are hoping you will be one of them or will be our ambassador to reach one of them. What we would like first is a commitment. If we are able to raise the whole amount by December, we will let you know and you can transfer the money to Prajnya. You have supported us from the beginning. We hope you will support us now, at the end. The Prajnya TeamOctober 31, 2023

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