What We are doing
Girl child are discriminated against and exploited every where in the world even today.They need to be protected in the initial stages and then made self dependent for their survival. "Ek Koshish" is an effort in the direction of save girl child & providing necessary education, imparting certain vocational skills and creating employment opportunities for these girl child We are working for rights of girl child to be born and get equal status in society. We are determined to built a nation where every girl could attain the right to survival, protection development and participation. In the State of Uttar Pradesh, We are working towards to educate communities to cherish birth of girl child and resist social pressures to go in for pre birth sex selection and determination through public awareness, Nukkad Nataks, Symposium, seminars and camps. We are also supporting girls against medical negligence and vulnerable diseases. We also support women in income generating activities to increase their income like arranging various training camps, workshop and making them learn skills of earning livelihood.
Main Activities of the organization
In order to eradicate female feticide from the society, We started an ambitious project.Ek Koshish? (a campaign to save girl child) describing female feticide as disgrace to society. Project.Ek Koshish? was launched in 2010. Through this project a number of measures are been taken to change the prevalent social thinking and remove gender based discrimination by keeping in mind the goal of balanced sex ratio.
We do it by following measures:-
Highlighting the Achievements- Organizing workshops and seminar on Village, Panchayat and District level where people from all social sectors can participate in large number and share their views.
- Highlighting evil of this practice through Nukkad Natak’s, stage shows, and showing Documentary in Villages, Schools, Colleges etc.
- Distributing materials on the issue specially prepared by Anupma Foundation at Village, Panchayat, Block and District level.
- Enhancing sensitization to gender issue to influence policy makers, planners and enforcement machinery is another important strategy.
- Young married couple and pregnant women are given counselling.
- Public education on the illegality of fetal sex discrimination and sex selective abortion.
- Sensitizing media both print and electronic brief about attitudinal changes towards the girls.
- We register and train social workers, social networking users as volunteers to create a virally growing Save Girl Child Volunteer community.
- We receive report via emails and SMS about any illegal ultrasound center which we report to concerned authorities.
- Signature campaign involving youth attended by students of various colleges and universities.
- We monitor suspicious health clinics and Doctors and families who may be involved in illegal practice of sex determination of fetus and female feticide.