Rural Women Upliftment by ASHA-O-ALO
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Rural Women Upliftment by ASHA-O-ALO |
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Core Committee: Society Development Nodal Person: Sri Apurba Kumar Ghosh Program Coordinator: Smt. Lovely Ghosh email |
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Justification of the Project: While 10 year old Munnu prepares for school everyday morning, her younger sister Suniti helps her mother in household activities. In this remote Chotta Bankra young girls are bereft of education. A region where women are deprived of basic human rights, face domestic violence at regular basis; girl child’s education naturally takes a back seat. Problems like poverty, malnutrition and unemployment, gender biasing reign supreme. Women here have no access to information, are vast by illiterate, economically vulnerable, get married at teenage. Dowry deaths, female infanticide, premature pregnancy are very common scenario depicting the embarrassing situation of “her”. |
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Our Objectives: Plight of women should change. Literacy will transform women here to an educated and well-informed, healthier, self esteemed, decision making and earning member of the society. We organize literacy classes for them; they are provided basic information about her and her child’s health, hygiene living. They are taught numerical counting, how to curb domestic violence, pre and post natal care. Emphasis is given to make her narrate her own problem. Special care is taken to improve her communication skill. Vocational training on stitching, embroidery, handicrafts making is provided to let her earn and survive in the family with high head. |
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Our Achievements and the Milestones Ahead: Efforts of ASHA-O-ALO has brought effects to drive out illiteracy. 60% of the rural women here attend evening adult schools regularly. Most of them have learnt banking activities, they go to schools for parent meetings, listens to radio, obviously read the Bengali newspaper: needless to say that they to some extent understand the need of education. Health issues are consciously dealt to avoid pre and post natal problems. Hygienic ways are incorporated during delivery. It is for these women, villagers now look for hygienic sanitation practices. Even the number of girl-child school goers has risen. Domestic violence is now openly discussed and to some extent it is reducing. A large number of these women have started sewing clothes which they sell in market. A minimum of 30Rs./day is earned by them. Alcoholism has taken back seat. In the next phase we require to build a vocational training institute, a computer training institute, distribute sewing machines and provide scholarships to the meritorious among them. This will motivate them to become educated and let them continue higher education. We look forward to publish a quarterly magazine all written by them increasing awareness and making knowledge of their potential for the improvement of socio-economic condition of the community. |
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