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Gender Empowerment
{{contributorFullName}} | 05-09-2016
By imparting critical knowledge of health, safety, rights and life skills, and basic communicative English to adolescent girls through fun, activity-based camps conducted by trained college students-turned-counsellors at government and low-cost private schools, Voice 4 Girls intervenes and breaks the vicious cycle of ignorance and suppression.
VOICE 4 Girls, through its unique curriculum and training programs, breaks the cycle of ignorance, discrimination and poverty that is faced by majority of girls. Facilitators bring the critical knowledge and skill-set to marginalized adolescent girls so that they may meet their potential and reconstruct society from within. At the VOICE Camp, girls standing at the threshold of adulthood, are given vital information about their health, their bodies, their rights and the skills to plan and build a future for themselves. Equipped with these tools, these girls gain the confidence and independence to gain employment, to plan a family, and consequently educate their children and break out of harmful cycles of economic, social, and gender inequality in their communities. Also, to ensure sustainability, VOICE conducts the Sakhi Peer Leadership Camp, whereby campers are trained to become leaders, mentors and role models for their peers and to take back what they have learnt at camp to their communities.
Adolescent girls in India deal with the lack of information, regressive social norms, patriarchal mindsets, economical constraints and rampant risk of abuse, making for an unsettling passage into adulthood. Statistics reveal that over 70% of girls in India do not graduate class 10 and that almost 50% are married before the legal age of 18. VOICE 4 Girls conducts VOICE Camps in schools by motivated, young college students who are trained to implement VOICE’s unique curricula comprising of critical knowledge (including basic health, safety, rights, self awareness, and future planning), spoken English and life skills (including interpersonal skills, leadership, problem solving, independent and critical thinking ability). Given their proximity in age, these counsellors are easier for the girls to relate to.
Providing marginalized girls with the critical knowledge to uplift themselves could help break cycles of poverty, violence, malnutrition and gender inequality.
Providing adolescent girls with the support to stay in school, stay healthy, and delay marriage could boost India's GDP by a whopping 110 billion USD.
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