Various studies, as well as our experience, have shown that when we help women and empower them, the whole society benefits. Their families’ arc healthier, children go to school, income levels improve and communities become more prosperous. But unfortunately in India, far from being empowered, most women are denied even their basic rights like health, education, employment and a respectable status in society.
According to UNDP Human Development Report (2009),88% of pregnant women (age 15-49) were found to be suffering from anaemia. India has a dangerously imbalanced sex ratio, the chief reason being female infanticides and sex-selective abortions. According to UNlCEF’s “State of the World’s Childrcn-2009” report, 47% of India’s women aged 20-24 were married before the legal age of 18.
Functioning as an NOO for women, Divya Tripti Foundation has strategically formulated a programme to save the girl child, empower poor and support women empowerment. The programme is specifically aimed at realization of both individual and collective self-esteem and inner strength for marginalized and socially excluded women and adolescent girls through innovative community practices
