Udayan Shalini Fellowships programme of Udayan Care is a unique academic excellence and personality development programme for deserving and talented girls from weak socio-economic backgrounds aiming to turn them into empowered and dignified women or Shalinis.
Girls from weak socio-economic background
91,000/- per girl
Hyderabad / Telangana
To provide financial support and personalized mentoring.
To widen their horizon of knowledge on fields like career choices, social issues and personality development.
To help them develop social sensitivity and employability skills.
FirstLeap, a holistic job readiness & empowerment program for women; Goal-5, Goal-8
Umeed (Non-Profit Organization)
Opportunity: Branding and Visibility
Firstleap is a rigorous training program for women from urban low-income communities. Firstleap will cater to 500 women through 3-month-long cohorts of training spread across 12 months. In each cohort, a total of 120 hours of training will be conducted through a series of 40 sessions spread across the three focus areas (Skill, Mindset and Exposure). The program empowers women holistically with functional life skills and values that make them job ready. During the program women get awareness about and learn from various industries that can absorb them in their labor force. Post program completion, women are provided with employment opportunities to take their very first step towards becoming an empowered woman contributing to the Indian economy.
Direct Beneficiaries : 500 Women aged 18-25
Indirect Beneficiaries : 1500 People
41,68,000/-
Erragadda, Yousufguda, Borabanda, Rehmath Nagar and Krishna nagar in Hyderabad
Skill Building: Impart employability skills such as effective work communication, basic math, personal grooming etc
Self-Development: Create awareness about values which sets women up for growth in both personal and professional life
Exposure: Provide exposure to the working of outside world, from booking Ubers to using UPI payments etc
Job Placement: Provide women with job interviews with prospective recruiters
Mask Production for Covid 19 Aid; Goal-5, Goal-1, Goal-3, Goal-8
Nirmaan Organization (Non-Profit Organization)
Opportunity: Branding and Visibility
Nirmaan Organization is a registered NGO incepted by students of BITS Pilani in 2005 and works in the areas of Education, Livelihoods and Social Leadership. As a part of the current program, they will be delivering reusable masks for essential services personnel and the general public through production, marketing and sales from their vocational training centers for underprivileged women. Majority of the cloth will be sourced from Weaver Societies.
40 Women (18-40 Age Group); 75,000 frontline workers/vulnerable communities; At least 1 weaver society
14,45,450/-
Hyderabad
To support women through the activity of stitching the Masks.
To provide relief and rehabilitation support for those affected by COVID 19 pandemic.
To provide a platform for underprivileged women to design, manufacture and market their products and earn a decent livelihood.
Women Empowerment through Vocational Training and Livelihood Support; Goal-5, Goal-1, Goal-4, Goal-8, Goal-10
Nirmaan Organization (Non-Profit Organization)
Opportunity: Branding and Visibility
Nirmaan Organization is a registered NGO incepted by students of BITS Pilani in 2005 and works in the areas of Education, Livelihoods and Social Leadership. This project supports women through vocational training, placement support, mentoring, alumni network and life-skills workshops.
300 Women in the Age Group of 18 to 40 Years
20,10,008/-
Hyderabad
To economically empower women from underprivileged communities through vocational training and livelihood support (job placement/ market linkages)
1 Year (Preferred duration of association – minimum 3 years)
The organization offers free counselling, legal aid, helpline support and safe home services. They run 5 Support and Counselling Centres in Telangana. The core of Operation is the PeaceMakers. They are community women trained as paralegal workers who will educate women and children on their rights, and prevent abuse by conducting awareness workshops.
Vulnerable Communities in Telangana
Budget for 1 Year : 77,03,000/-Budget for 3 Years : 2,31,09,000/-
Telangana
To stop domestic violence and create meaningful change in women’s lives.
Ending Large Scale Sex Trafficking in India; Goal-5, Goal-8, Goal-16, Goal-17
My Choices Foundation (Non-Profit Organization)
Opportunity: Branding and Visibility
Through the Safe Village Program (SVP), My Choices Foundation will create awareness on sex trafficking and child marriage, empower the community to thwart the attempt of traffickers and support the villagers to safeguard themselves with the help of volunteer network and helpline in 100 villages.
Direct Impact: 45,000 people; Indirect Impact: 180,000 people
18,00,000/-
Telangana
Sensitising villagers about sex trafficking, its causes, and its risk factors.
Creating awareness about ways to prevent trafficking.
Sustaining awareness through Rakshaks, Gram Mitra, Nodal Teachers and Helpline.
Transformation of Jogini and Enhancing Livelihoods by Developing them as Entrepreneurs; Goal-5, Goal-10
Narayanpet District Collectorate Office, Government of Telangana
Opportunity: Branding and Visibility
A study will be conducted to understand the social, geographical, political and economical dimensions of Jogini women who will then be sensitized and motivated towards transformation. Key enterprises like dairy, agriculture and non-farm enterprises suitable for upliftment of their socio-economic conditions will be identified out of potential avenues. A baseline report will be prepared and presented to other stakeholders. Developing a few skill based modules and launching them on pilot mode will be the first priority of the district administration.
Joginis (Traditional Sex Workers)
7,50,000/-
Narayanpet District, Telangana
To identify various opportunities or enterprises to uplift the standard of living, lives and livelihoods of the beneficiaries.
The project will aim to implement a leadership journey for youth and adolescents through the online space as the medium for discourse, inspiring them to lead Social Action Projects (SAPs) in community spaces around them. Emerging Leader Fellows (ELF) will be supported and mentored in their SAPs of reaching out to 30 adolescents each. The issue of Child Marriage would be advocated on through an online media campaign.
Integrated Approach to Women Empowerment; Goal-5, Goal-1, Goal-3, Goal-4, Goal-8
Smile Foundation (Non-Profit Organization)
Opportunity: Branding and Visibility
Swabhiman , meaning self-respect in English, was initiated in 2005 by Smile Foundation to address the challenges faced by women. TThe program takes an integrative approach towards empowerment of women by focussing on education, health and economic opportunities. The approach includes :
Reproductive Child Health & Adolescent Reproductive & Sexual Health
Scholarship Support to Underprivileged Meritorious Girl Students
Empowering women SHGs
Women and adolescent girls in underprivileged communities
Available Upon Request
Telangana
To promote positive health-seeking behaviour among women.
To ensure continuity of education of girls from underprivileged backgrounds with scholarship support
To empower the adolescent girls through life skills training to be able to take informed decisions
To build capacities of women through entrepreneurship training for developing small businesses
To leverage existing government schemes and programmes for easy access to the community
15 Months (3 months pre-operational and 12 months operational)
Gender Program Proposal; Goal-5, Goal-3, Goal-4, Goal-6
Youngistaan Foundation (Non-Profit Organization)
Opportunity: Branding and Visibility
This is an awareness program that aims to build safe spaces of dialogue to engage adolescent girls, boys and parents in conversation, and empower them with awareness on general hygiene, safety rights and gender equality. It initiates and sustains crucial conversations on child sexual abuse as well as sexual harassment of all genders. The program also aims to spread awareness on vaginal cancer and contribute to the reduction of plastic waste by distributing cloth pads.
5,000 Adolescent Girls
14,37,500/-
Hyderabad
Awareness, knowledge and access to health and hygiene facilities will lead to improved health.
Young girls will be encouraged to stay in school even during their periods.
The cloth pads, which are reusable, biodegradable, and made of breathable material which will help cut down monthly sanitary hygiene costs.
Digital and Financial Empowerment of Women; Goal-5, Goal-1, Goal-3, Goal-4, Goal-8
Smile Foundation (Non-Profit Organization)
Opportunity: Branding and Visibility
Smile Foundation under its Swabhiman programme will empower women digitally and economically through a three fold strategy involving Funnel Approach, Sustainability and Change Agents as Service Providers. The programme is specifically aimed at realization of
both individual and collective self-esteem and inner strength for marginalised and socially excluded women and adolescent girls through innovative community practices.
10,000 women
Available Upon Request
Telangana
To develop selected women as “Change Agents”
To Digitally and financially literate women
To equip women to make informed decisions
To build capacities of women and adolescent girls for entrepreneurship
To achieve sustainability through linkages with government schemes
15 Months (3 months pre-operational and 12 months operational)
ComMutiny - The Youth Collective (Non-Profit Organization)
Opportunity: Branding and Visibility
The initiative aims to impact gender norms (including those relating to masculinity), through an intervention with ‘insiders’ who are inspired to change the unequal distribution of power and privileges between men and women in their immediate circle and communities. Inspired Insiders are young men and boys who are aware about the gender-based injustice, violence and discrimination in their communities, may have been perpetrators or oppressors and are now inspired to intervene to make change.
Young Men and Boys aged 15-29 Years
88,02,000/- Per Year
8 Geographies including Hyderabad
Outcomes to be achieved in 12 Months :
250+ action projects in 24 communities
500 young men engage 5000 adults and 100+ duty bearers
24 Gender labs across communities
500+ stories published on social media
10000 people participate in Gender Quotient audits across communities
Live learning events across the community of Gender Jagriks
Collective of Gender Jagriks who can become gender activists at large
Udayan Care (Non-Profit Organization)
