| Women face all the problems of the SSVK target area: low literacy, water, housing, child labour, child marriage, exploitation, discrimination, etc.... Today, due to migrant labour, women in the SSVK area are heading the majority of households. SSVK is working to change local women's lives -Microcredit more -Promote leadership of women at the community level through train the trainer courses -make women self-reliant by creating & sustaining economic opporunities more -addressing the issue of maternal and reproductive health. |
| SSVK in the media "...there is one sight, strikingly common, in all musahar villages. You see women, young and old, children of all ages and old men, but young/middle-aged men are hardly to be seen." EPW, December 4, 1999 "Everybody in the villages listens to Tilaya, and follows her, as their leader. She was the one who had taken control of the land. ...'now more and more women work, because of the increasing economic pressure and migration of the menfolki to Punjab-Haryana....We have to decide things for our houses,' says she regarding her involvement in the work of the organisation [SSVK]" EPW, December 4, 1999 |
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