Married at the age of 16, Domination Ambajogai’s Pandey – A temple city MaharashtraHer husband had to hide her face after leaving for a religious journey, from where she never returned.
“Are you not saddened by the fact that he has left you?” “How can you just move forward?”
These were just a few questions that the young mother of two was bombed on her way to work in an NGO, which received a monthly monthly salary of Rs 800 to raise awareness on many issues from women’s rights to reproductive health. Did
From such adverse comments, Ashalata quit her job. With his own property and no support from his in -laws, he worked as an ASHA worker. Covering her head, like shroud, along the edge of her sari, she took her to deserted streets on her way to ensure that she took those curious dazzle in the Gulf.
It was during one of those solitary routes to do the work that Ashalata had a chance encounter with Chitrati.
A drunken father was marrying a man at the age of 12 at the age of 12, who was looking for dowry, Chitrati aka Chitra Patil was not only a cheerful health worker, but also a newly-lexm Many villagers were freed from greedy money lenders. Group which charge 2% fixed interest rate.
Encouraged by Chitrati, Ashalata nominated herself for the ground -level leadership development program (Gladip) And on the third day of the syllabus, she felt that she was entitled to some rights including her husband’s property rights.
“My father -in -law had a big house. I wanted to co-owe it correctly. Now, I really do, “Ashalata says, being a ‘SW’ (Single Woman), sharing his expiry rhebi, one of the local leaders of many vocal, solo Sangthana (EMS) is a women’s organization in Marathwada. That Galvenis has galuenis his 22,000 to become an agent of social change, left, different, widowed women’s marginalized population.
Ashalata is currently working on violence against women in Marathwada.
A decade ago, 27 singles women were launched by Bed, Latur, Osmanabad and Nandhai Western Maharashtra Belt -Ms, which today claims about 22,000 members.
After the rescue of single women from social stigma, unemployment and domestic violence, EMS is one of more than 500 organizations in Maharashtra and Rajasthan, which have been provided by non-profit Koro India.
“Koro means ‘excessive appreciation Tyache Neturutwa’ (question is similar to truth). The campaign to start the change should come from within,” Dr. Sujata Khandkar, is the founder of the 34-year Holistic Community Development NGO.
Formed by the privileged background people in 1989, Koro later evolved into “as a People’s Organization, not only the beneficiaries but as the leaders of the organization”, as as Mahendra Rokade, the director of the Coro, as Mahendra Rokade. , It is called.
In the last three decades, its efforts in rural and urban Maharashtra and Rajasthan have created more than 1,688 “grassroots leaders”, 69% of which are women -Transvoman.
Most of these soil transformations should be hail from the notified and represented tribes, backward classes, minorities and other marginalized communities. These leaders – age between 20 and 50 – Now address issues ranging from gender rights to forest rights.
Khandekar explains, “Since women are denied permission to do things continuously and since childhood and punished for transferring those boundaries, later in their lives, women themselves begin to believe it. That they are fewer humans, “Khandekar explains.
In two decades, such an insight paved the way for skills such as advocacy and constitutional rights for the grassroots training program (GLDP) -A course, inspired by the philosophy of Brazilian teacher Paulo Fryer’s philosophy of Paulo Fire. Meanwhile, EMS, which began working on ensuring safety and access to the government for single women in areas where they were seen as “graveyards for graveyards”, now conquer in Rajasthan’s Rajasthan Gaya, where Tena Rawat, who survived two suicide attempts after her husband. Left him, now he was proudly smiling inside a court, where she is defending herself as a lawyer. “If you had not left her,” the judge told her ex -husband, against whom she had filed five cases, “this woman must have spent her whole life in a sip. Instead, she is now a lawyer. See how little you have achieved and how much he has done with your life ”.
Koro recently launched the Atta Deep Academy of Grassroots leadership in Mumbai as GLDP expansion. Khandekar says, “Atta deep means self -cultivation”.
The arrival of four transvoman has expanded the lens of Koro on gender issues. In its 2023 annual report, the case studies indicate how the issues addressed by the ground level female leaders address the gender.
Durga of Udaipur -who learned how to open and operate a Facebook account during her fellowship, when she is surfing on the net a day when she listed 42 villagers names on a government website , Those who received money to make cattle sheds. Remember Durga, “None of the concerned people knew that their applications were approved,” remember Durga who downloaded the receipts and equipped with those printouts, the villagers then sarpanch Pressed on.
That is change. This is power …
➤ 500 grassroots organizations which Koro has worked in Maharashtra and Rajasthan
Out of 358 tehsils, 249 Joe Koro has reached Maharashtra
➤ out of 390 talukas, 122 who have reached Koro Rajasthan
➤ In the last 15 years, GLDP has given birth to 1,688 community leaders across Maharashtra and Rajasthan.
➤ 3 million lives touched 3,224 villages covered in Maharashtra
➤ Over time, the initiative evolved through leadership programs and became independent processes
➤ 268 women (83 sarpanch and 38 deputy sarpanch) and 217 have been elected to the local-self-government elections of various corophocralized campaigns of men).
➤ 22 GLDP leaders in Maharashtra worked on community forest rights.
➤ For women, ‘the right to urinate’ for women-which is lobbies, has now touched 9 lakh lives in Maharashtra.
➤ 1,617 villages covered in Rajasthan
➤ The campaign on ‘equal property rights for women’ is going on in the Konkan region and is spreading in Maharashtra. 84 leaders and 39 organizations are working on a campaign in 96 villages in 17 districts of Maharashtra.
