About Us
Swayam is a feminist organisation committed to advancing women's rights and ending discrimination and violence against women and girls. On the one hand we facilitate the empowerment of women survivors of violence and enable them to become self-confident, self-sufficient and self-reliant. On the other, we generate discussion, debate and action in society to challenge social norms, values and systems that deem discrimination and violence against women and girls acceptable.
Swayam works with a 48 member team including 7 consultants and field staff working out of three Centres located in Deodar Street and Metiabruz in Kolkata and in Diamond Harbour in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal.
Swayam was established and registered as a public charitable trust in Kolkata, India in 1995. Since then the organisation and the women it supports have grown from strength to strength and Swayam is now one of the leading organisations of its kind in India.
Our Vision – Mission – Strategy – Values
Our Vision
Swayam envisions a non-discriminatory, violence-free and gender-equal society.
Our Mission
Swayam works to end discrimination and violence against women, advance women's rights and facilitate women's empowerment.
Our Strategy
Swayam’s comprehensive strategy includes:
- Reinforcing women’s belief in themselves and facilitating their empowerment
- Challenging and changing societal norms and values that deem violence against women acceptable.
- Mobilising, developing and empowering communities to promote women’s rights and to address discrimination and violence against women.
- Holding the State and society accountable to prevent discrimination and violence against women and establish women’s rights.
- Working in a collective manner and in solidarity with organisations, networks and movements to bring about systemic change.
Our Values
- Mutual Respect
- Quality and Excellence
- Transparency
- Accountability
- Integrity
- Equality
- Partnership and Collaboration
- Participatory Approach
- Secularism
- Non-discrimination
Our Board
- Trust Board:
- Anuradha Kapoor, Founder/Managing Trustee
- Jael Miriam Silliman, Board Chair/Trustee
- Abhijit Datta, Trustee
- Kalpana Viswanath Basu, Trustee
- Atul Gupta, Trustee
- Advisory Board:
- Arvind Agrawal, Advocate, Direct Tax law
- Kavita Panjabi, Professor
- Mentors:
- Uma Ahmed (Educationist)
- Sandhi Mukherjee (IPS - retired)
- Aparna Sen (Filmmaker)
Our Team:
- Executive Director:
| Amrita Dasgupta |
- HR/Administrative Officer:
| Sandip Das |
- Direct Support Services Team:
| Gargee Guha |
| Surama Ghosh |
| Suchismita Chanda |
| Sriya Satuluri |
| Sumana Bhattacharya |
| Swati Pramanik |
| Ipshita Mukherjee |
| Eshika Rana Dutta |
| Anita Pal |
| Priyanka Haralalka Shayori Banerjee |
- Preventive Strategy Team:
| Somdatta Neogi |
| Seema Sreeniwas (Srivastava) |
| Soumi Jana |
| Triparna Nandy |
| Poulami Nandy |
| Debayani Sen |
| Rajasree Das |
- Metiabruz Community Team:
| Dulari Khatoon |
| Rehana Khatoon (Debnath) |
| Rahool Goswami |
| Amrita Kumari Yadav |
| Mosaddek Molla |
| Saheda Begum |
- Diamond Harbour Community Team:
| Nargis Ara |
| Mridul Molla |
| Md. Shamim Iqbal |
| Somnath Paul |
| Sagir Ahmed Purkait |
| Azijur Rahaman Molla |
| Sabina Bibi |
| Pronati Ghosh |
| Momotaj Bibi (Khatun) |
- Accounts & HR:
| Bijaya Ghsoh (Chakrabarty) |
| Ananda Mohan Dey |
| Kalosona Sardar Rigdish Mandal |
- Support Staff:
| Ganesh Das |
| Dilip Das |
| Manoj Mallick |
| Pijus Purkait |
| Prodip Tarafdar |
| Netai Ghosh |
| Sanjib Bera |
- Consultants:
| Legal |
| Abhijit Datta |
| Amales Kanti Ghosal |
| Mental Health |
| Chandana Baksi |
| Paromita Chowdhury |
| Debasmita Sinha Das |
| Suparna Rudra |
| Theatre Group |
| Bela Adak Bagchi |
| Music Group |
| Susmita Sinha |
| Dance Group |
| Monami Nandy |
| Librarian |
| Sukla Dev (Mitra) |
- Funding Partners:
Annual Reports & Financials
Annual Reports
Swayam Report 2005-2010- https://swayam.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Swayam-Report-2005-2010.pdf
Swayam 3 Years Report 2014-2017- https://swayam.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Swayam-3-year-report-1.pdf
Swayam 3 Years Report 2014-2017- https://swayam.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Swayam-3-year-report-1.pdf
FCRA (Foreign Contribution Regulation Act) Reports - https://swayam.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/FCRA-receipts-Accounts-31.3.2021.pdf
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+91 9073922267Swayam 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.