What We Do
We provide Direct Support Services to women survivors of violence including counselling, legal aid and advice, police follow up, vocational training, referrals for shelter and employment, a drop-in-centre and numerous group activities to promote creativity and positive mental health.
Our Preventive Strategies programme includes intervening in urban and rural communities to build a violence free and gender just society, public education and awareness building, producing creative resources, disseminating information and sharing expertise, training and capacity building, networking with like-minded organisations/institutions and engaging with state institutions for systemic change.
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Using technology like mobile phones, social media, messaging applications or the internet to harm, silence or control. In simple terms, it is a modern form of abuse.
Swayam Theater group
Theatre encourages and promotes self-expression, co-operation and teamwork. We could see that much of what we were trying to achieve in the support groups could be addressed through the process of theatre itself.
Music
The music performances facilitate discussions of difficult issues that our women survivors and the community may be reluctant to discuss under other circumstances.
Prayas
Prayas is a quarterly magazine that is written and edited by survivors themselves. It contains poetry and prose primarily in Bengali with occasional pieces in Hindi and English.