WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

Women Empowerment

Women Empowerment refers to increasing and improving the social, economic, political and legal strength of the women, to ensure equal-right to women, and to make them confident enough to claim their rights. Women population is around 50% of the total population of the world. They have every right to be treated equally with men in every spheres of life and society. Empowerment of Women would result in better and more developed society. When women contribute equally along with men for the benefit of society, the world would surely become a better place to live.

SPT believes that to strengthen the social status of women two things of utmost important are educating them and providing them economic independence. It aims to make them self reliant by developing their inter-personal skills. Several skill development programmes are designed for making them self independent and confident enough to face challenges of life.

Crime against women has increased because of which being a girl has become a curse leading to increase in cases of female feticide. The SaiSparsh Trust provides assistance in marriages of poor and orphan young girls who cannot afford marriage expenses. Every year group marriages of girls are conducted in a temple. The trust provides basic household items such as furniture, utensils, clothes etc as well as the ceremony expense. Sewing machines are given to each girl so that they can earn their livelihood by stitching clothes.

The Trust provides a registration service where couples or their families apply for the ceremony. The main aim behind this event is to help young couples enter wedlock without becoming victim of the dowry system adding that the underprivileged families are unable to pay huge sums of money as dowry to the bridegroom at the time of the marriage which often pushes them under heavy debts and loans. So, by this mass marriage ceremony the girls get married without bearing the expense of this ceremony. Girls from poor families are married according to family’s customs and traditions. The Trust has successfully managed to host such events every year.