About
Our major focus for the last 3 years was women empowerment programmes. Adolescent period is crucial one and it is essential to guide them. Hence, we are focusing these groups and conducted various awareness programmes at schools and colleges to enable them to tackle their psychological, social, emotional problems and to make them aware of their rights. Legal awareness programme enable the women to avail their rights with the support of legal system.
We have organized various skill training programmes with the support of Ministry of Human Resource development and Ministry of Sports and Youth affairs. Yearly 280-300 adolescent girls and women are undergoing training in Tailoring, Knitting, Macramé, Embroidery, Beautician, Doll making, Jewellery making, Typewriting and Computer skills. Among the beneficiaries 2 trainees got employment in Government sector, 12 of them running their own tailoring training centre in their own village and others self- employed and got employed in private sectors.
The products made by the trainees were exhibited during the summer festival eve organized by the district administration and won best stall award from the district Collector for the two consecutive years. It is a great success for the various skill training provided by the organization.
Our organization is one of the executive committee member in Government Polytechnic college, Udhagamandalam and a member and district coordinator in state level network for Elimination of Girl child marriage. Organised awareness programmes with the coordination of District child welfare committee.
Education For Adolscent Girls
The adolescent girls experience emotional challenges and issues of sexuality soon after onset of puberty and are not prepared to handle these challenges of their growing sexuality and reproductive capacity. They are often exposed to risk of early mother hood, unwise partnership, drug addiction and losing their rights to development as children and leading to waste of valuable human potential.
The atmosphere, attitude and negligence of parents at home are not providing any guidance instead psychological stress. Apart from personal care, they are unable to get adequate information on nutrition, physiology, reproductive, sexual health, ill effects of substance abuse etc. Teenagers need professional help to sort through personal issues that they are not comfortable discussing with parents and peers.
Objectives of the Programme
- To address serious emotional, behavioural and psychological concerns that affects the lives of adolescents.
- Provide adolescent with preventive anticipatory guidance on existing violence, reproductive health rights and counselling.
- Earnest efforts towards reducing gender discrimination and enhancing strength among adolescents
The activities being covered are awareness education on sexual health rights, sex education, characteristics of adolescence and moral education, counselling sessions, awareness to parents to handle their adolescent children etc to enable the adolescent to lead a fruitful life. This programme is mostly welcomed by the school authorities because the girls are able to come out with their problems freely and the parents also receiving proper guidance to handle their adolescent girls