Interventions
Educational Support
Swabhiman was initiated with the conviction that education is a cornerstone for development and empowerment of women. Hence, an intervention supporting the education of adolescent girls forms an integral part of this programme. Illiteracy, low priority on education for girls, very high dropout rate among adolescent girls, are some of the contextual and societal processes which this intervention addresses and focuses on the age group of young adolescent girls in the age group of 10-19 years.
A survey on the rate of out-of-school-girls, conducted in the Swabhiman intervention areas show that while 12% of the girls never went to school; 88% discontinued their schooling in the early years itself for reasons mainly like distance of the school, monetary limitations, engagement in household work or family business, looking after siblings and disapproval of parents.
Swabhiman programme identifies truly deserving but needy young adolescent girls in its intervention areas and provides full educational support to them. The programme, in addition, tries to bring about positive changes in the parental attitude of the girls by sensitizing them about the importance of sending their daughters to school, letting them finish their education thus creating good employment opportunities, resulting in overall development of the family.
The beneficiaries of this intervention of Swabhiman programme are girls who are victims of very difficult circumstances. They are mainly children of sex workers, children of leprosy or HIV/AIDS affected parents, children of single mothers, street children and children of victims of trafficked women. This intervention is implemented in slum areas of Delhi like Chattarpur, Neb Sarai, Dhaula Kuan, New Ashok Nagar and Shashi Garden
Reproductive and Child Health
Swabhiman was initiated with the conviction that education is a cornerstone for development and empowerment of women. Hence, an intervention supporting the education of adolescent girls forms an integral part of this programme. Illiteracy, low priority on education for girls, very high dropout rate among adolescent girls, are some of the contextual and societal processes which this intervention addresses and focuses on the age group of young adolescent girls in the age group of 10-19 years.
A survey on the rate of out-of-school-girls, conducted in the Swabhiman intervention areas show that while 12% of the girls never went to school; 88% discontinued their schooling in the early years itself for reasons mainly like distance of the school, monetary limitations, engagement in household work or family business, looking after siblings and disapproval of parents.
Swabhiman programme identifies truly deserving but needy young adolescent girls in its intervention areas and provides full educational support to them. The programme, in addition, tries to bring about positive changes in the parental attitude of the girls by sensitizing them about the importance of sending their daughters to school, letting them finish their education thus creating good employment opportunities, resulting in overall development of the family.
The beneficiaries of this intervention of Swabhiman programme are girls who are victims of very difficult circumstances. They are mainly children of sex workers, children of leprosy or HIV/AIDS affected parents, children of single mothers, street children and children of victims of trafficked women. This intervention is implemented in slum areas of Delhi like Chattarpur, Neb Sarai, Dhaula Kuan, New Ashok Nagar and Shashi Garden
Behaviourial Change
Swabhiman was initiated with the conviction that education is a cornerstone for development and empowerment of women. Hence, an intervention supporting the education of adolescent girls forms an integral part of this programme. Illiteracy, low priority on education for girls, very high dropout rate among adolescent girls, are some of the contextual and societal processes which this intervention addresses and focuses on the age group of young adolescent girls in the age group of 10-19 years.
A survey on the rate of out-of-school-girls, conducted in the Swabhiman intervention areas show that while 12% of the girls never went to school; 88% discontinued their schooling in the early years itself for reasons mainly like distance of the school, monetary limitations, engagement in household work or family business, looking after siblings and disapproval of parents.
Swabhiman programme identifies truly deserving but needy young adolescent girls in its intervention areas and provides full educational support to them. The programme, in addition, tries to bring about positive changes in the parental attitude of the girls by sensitizing them about the importance of sending their daughters to school, letting them finish their education thus creating good employment opportunities, resulting in overall development of the family.
The beneficiaries of this intervention of Swabhiman programme are girls who are victims of very difficult circumstances. They are mainly children of sex workers, children of leprosy or HIV/AIDS affected parents, children of single mothers, street children and children of victims of trafficked women. This intervention is implemented in slum areas of Delhi like Chattarpur, Neb Sarai, Dhaula Kuan, New Ashok Nagar and Shashi Garden
Life Skill Education
Swabhiman was initiated with the conviction that education is a cornerstone for development and empowerment of women. Hence, an intervention supporting the education of adolescent girls forms an integral part of this programme. Illiteracy, low priority on education for girls, very high dropout rate among adolescent girls, are some of the contextual and societal processes which this intervention addresses and focuses on the age group of young adolescent girls in the age group of 10-19 years.
A survey on the rate of out-of-school-girls, conducted in the Swabhiman intervention areas show that while 12% of the girls never went to school; 88% discontinued their schooling in the early years itself for reasons mainly like distance of the school, monetary limitations, engagement in household work or family business, looking after siblings and disapproval of parents.
Swabhiman programme identifies truly deserving but needy young adolescent girls in its intervention areas and provides full educational support to them. The programme, in addition, tries to bring about positive changes in the parental attitude of the girls by sensitizing them about the importance of sending their daughters to school, letting them finish their education thus creating good employment opportunities, resulting in overall development of the family.
The beneficiaries of this intervention of Swabhiman programme are girls who are victims of very difficult circumstances. They are mainly children of sex workers, children of leprosy or HIV/AIDS affected parents, children of single mothers, street children and children of victims of trafficked women. This intervention is implemented in slum areas of Delhi like Chattarpur, Neb Sarai, Dhaula Kuan, New Ashok Nagar and Shashi Garden
Privileged Women and Youth sensitization
Swabhiman was initiated with the conviction that education is a cornerstone for development and empowerment of women. Hence, an intervention supporting the education of adolescent girls forms an integral part of this programme. Illiteracy, low priority on education for girls, very high dropout rate among adolescent girls, are some of the contextual and societal processes which this intervention addresses and focuses on the age group of young adolescent girls in the age group of 10-19 years.
A survey on the rate of out-of-school-girls, conducted in the Swabhiman intervention areas show that while 12% of the girls never went to school; 88% discontinued their schooling in the early years itself for reasons mainly like distance of the school, monetary limitations, engagement in household work or family business, looking after siblings and disapproval of parents.
Swabhiman programme identifies truly deserving but needy young adolescent girls in its intervention areas and provides full educational support to them. The programme, in addition, tries to bring about positive changes in the parental attitude of the girls by sensitizing them about the importance of sending their daughters to school, letting them finish their education thus creating good employment opportunities, resulting in overall development of the family.
The beneficiaries of this intervention of Swabhiman programme are girls who are victims of very difficult circumstances. They are mainly children of sex workers, children of leprosy or HIV/AIDS affected parents, children of single mothers, street children and children of victims of trafficked women. This intervention is implemented in slum areas of Delhi like Chattarpur, Neb Sarai, Dhaula Kuan, New Ashok Nagar and Shashi Garden
My father does not understand English but he loves to hear me use it.
I want to improve the conditions that my parents live in. I am working towards it.
Our daughter is our strength and hope. She is the youngest in the family, but she motivates everyone”- Shashi’s mother. She can say this because Shashi has emerged a fighter in the midst of a lot of problems. Her mother is proud of her and so are her other family members.
