Women empowerment Program:
Swadhar's initiatives for women are multifaceted and have
followed a need based pattern. It started by providing
counselling services to women from poor families facing
mental, physical and emotional stress in family life. The
experience of family counselling led to development of
awareness generation activities for slum-dwelling women and
adolescents especially regarding life-skills. It started with
school drop-out adolescent girls and went on to include young
mothers from the community. What shaped further was an
education support program for girls coming from rural families
and humble backgrounds. Swadhar started giving financial
support to girls continuing vocational or higher studies in
city educational institutions. The experience of working
closely with slum communities pioneered the set up of Phulora
centers which provided life skills training and vocational training
to school drop outs. Swadhar thus caters to diverse needs of
women in the poor communities living in the slums of Pune with
an objective of unleashing their potential and unwinding their
talent. The following projects are implemented under this
initiative:
1.Family Counselling Centers
2.Girls’ Education Support Program
3.Phulora