As Mukti Sangathana enters its 50th 12 months of change making, they organised a programme on December 14 in Mumbai to evaluate and mirror on their journey. Since 1975, the Stree Mukti Sanghatana has repeatedly strived to deliver girls collectively, construct a platform to battle for his or her rights and empower them. It has raised consciousness about gender inequality and the ensuing injustice and violence that girls face throughout each social stratum. The group affords an inclusive area to people, no matter gender, caste, faith, and financial background. By the years, we now have labored carefully with different girls’s and allied organizations whereas sustaining non-affiliation with any political celebration.
Stree Mukti Sangathana has persistently championed girls’s liberty and gender equality by varied mediums. It has used music, road performs like ‘Mulgī Jalī Ho’, poster exhibitions, and audio-visual displays to achieve to semi-literate, illiterate girls throughout the nation. The group has additionally organized discussions to provoke dialogues on girls’s points among the many youth. It has printed articles, booklets, and books to create consciousness and educate folks on a number of points. It has led protests, organized initiatives, and joined palms in nationwide campaigns with teams combating for a similar trigger.
In 1985, Stree Mukti Sanghatana began a ‘Counselling Middle’ for girls going through home violence and different difficulties. Immediately SMS runs ten such facilities throughout Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Buldhana, Dharashiv, and Kolhapur. These facilities present help and authorized recommendation to girls affected by violence. SMS additionally runs 10 day care facilities for kids (known as Amche Ghar) to assist working girls in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. Underneath their ‘Jidnyasa’ (Quest) mission, the sanghatana has performed six modules per class in faculties in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane and Pune to deal with points like stress, sexuality schooling, equality and different constitutional values for adolescents.
Stree Mukti Sangathana started working with girls waste-pickers from 1998. This included organizing them in Self Assist Teams, serving to them to kind cooperatives and federations to uplift their lives. Steady efforts have been made to safe their daughters’ schooling and be sure that they proceed their schooling.
As SMS turns 50, they purpose to mirror on our journey, share our achievements, lengthen our outreach to numerous social teams, and pave a brand new path for the gender equality motion within the years to return.
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