How SocialStory celebrated International Women’s Week – the top stories of the week
This week, SocialStory witnessed a number of women-led and women-run non-profits and NGOs that have been uplifting and empowering women.
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SocialStory celebrated women in the social impact space, during the International Women’s Week 2021.
While Jasmine started
Project Balika to empower millions of girls with school education, Selvarani from Trichy started the Sri Selliah Memorial Special
School for Intellectually Disabled Children.
Meanwhile, a mother-daughter-granddaughter trio is
empowering artisans to become more independent financially through their knitting initiative.
Here are the top Social Stories of the week:
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Malwani is a densely populated, largely low-income neighbourhood in the suburbs of Mumbai. It is an area that is known for crimes against women and high incidences of violence and drug abuse. Education is not a priority, even less so for the girls who live here.
Jasmine Bala first came to the neighbourhood as a Teach for India Fellow from Brown University to work in a school teaching seventh graders. “I knew they all had tough lives at home, but I saw that they came to school every day,
motivated to make new lives for themselves.”
On her return to the school between the first and second year of her fellowship, she was surprised to find that 26 out of the 41 girls in her classroom had dropped out of school. When she visited their homes, she found that it was the