Friday 20 January 2012

Women Empowerment

The popular UNESCO slogan :Educate a man and you educate an individual; educate a woman and you educate a family.´
Women is empowerment is a new phrase in the vocabulary of gender literature. The phrase is used in two broad senses i.e. general and specific. In a general sense, it refers to empowering women to be self-dependent by providing them access to all the freedoms and opportunities, which they were denied in the past only because of their being a women .In a specifice sense , women empowerment refers to enhancing their position in the power structure of the society.

The women is movement and a widespread network of Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) having strong grass-root presence and deep insight into women's concerns have contributed in inspiring initiatives for the empowerment ofwomen. Women today are trying to understand their position in the society. Women have become increasingly aware of sexual inequalities in every sphere of life and are seeking ways to fight them.

Lack of awareness
Lack of social and economic empowerment
Lack of political will
Feebleness of accountability mechanisms
Lack of enforcement by the police force
Lack of gender culture

These are some factors which has stopped women to grow.



The principle of gender equality is enshrined in the Indian Constitution in its Preamble, Fundamental Rights, Fundamental Duties and Directive Principles. The Constitution not only grants equality to women, but also empowers the State to adopt measures of positive discrimination in favour of women.

Within the framework of a democratic polity, our laws, development policies, Plans and programmes have aimed at women’s advancement in different spheres. From the Fifth Five Year Plan (1974-78) onwards has been a marked shift in the approach to women’s issues from welfare to development. In recent years, the empowerment of women has been recognized as the central issue in determining the status of women. The National Commission for Women was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1990 to safeguard the rights and legal entitlements of women. The 73rd and 74th Amendments (1993) to the Constitution of India have provided for reservation of seats in the local bodies of Panchayats and Municipalities for women, laying a strong foundation for their participation in decision making at the local levels.

Steps We are taking




Economic Empowerment of Women

Poverty Eradication

Since women comprise the majority of the population below the poverty line and are very often in situations of extreme poverty, given the harsh realities of intra-household and social discrimination, macro economic policies and poverty eradication programmes will specifically address the needs and problems of such women. There will be improved implementation of programmes which are already women oriented with special targets for women. Steps will be taken for mobilization of poor women  by offering them a range of economic and social options, along with necessary support measures to enhance their capabilities



Women and Economy
Women’s perspectives will be included in designing and implementing macro-economic and social policies by institutionalizing their participation in such processes. Their contribution to socio-economic development as producers and workers will be recognized in the formal and informal sectors (including home based workers) and appropriate policies relating to employment and to her working conditions will be drawn up.



Globalization

Globalization has presented new challenges for the realization of the goal of women’s equality, the gender impact of which has not been systematically evaluated fully. However, from the micro-level studies that were commissioned by the Department of Women & Child Development, it is evident that there is a need for re-framing policies for access to employment and quality of employment. Benefits of the growing global economy have been unevenly distributed leading to wider economic disparities, the feminization of poverty, increased gender inequality through often deteriorating working conditions and unsafe working environment especially in the informal economy and rural areas. Strategies will be designed to enhance the capacity of women and empower them to meet the negative social and economic impacts, which may flow from the globalization process.



Women and Agriculture

In view of the critical role of women in the agriculture and allied sectors, as producers, concentrated efforts will be made to ensure that benefits of training, extension and various programmes will reach them in proportion to their numbers. The programmes for training women in soil conservation, social forestry, dairy development and other occupations allied to agriculture like horticulture, livestock including small animal husbandry, poultry, fisheries etc. will be expanded to benefit women workers in the agriculture sector.

Women and Industry
The important role played by women in electronics, information technology and food processing and agro industry and textiles has been crucial to the development of these sectors. They would be given comprehensive support in terms of labour legislation, social security and other support services to participate in various industrial sectors.

Women at present cannot work in night shift in factories even if they wish to. Suitable measures will be taken to enable women to work on the night shift in factories. This will be accompanied with support services for security, transportation etc.

Support Services
The provision of support services for women, like child care facilities, including crèches at work places and educational institutions, homes for the aged and the disabled will be expanded and improved to create an enabling environment and to ensure their full cooperation in social, political and economic life. Women-friendly personnel policies will also be drawn up to encourage women to participate effectively in the developmental process.





Social Empowerment of Women
Education
Equal access to education for women and girls will be ensured. Special measures will be taken to eliminate discrimination, universalize education, eradicate illiteracy, create a gender-sensitive educational system, increase enrolment and retention rates of girls and improve the quality of education to facilitate life-long learning as well as development of occupation/vocation/technical skills by women. Reducing the gender gap in secondary and higher education would be a focus area..

Health
A holistic approach to women’s health which includes both nutrition and health services will be adopted and special attention will be given to the needs of women and the girl at all stages of the life cycle. The reduction of infant mortality and maternal mortality, which are sensitive indicators of human development, is a priority concern. This policy reiterates the national demographic goals for Infant Mortality Rate (IMR),. Women should have access to comprehensive, affordable and quality health care. Measures will be adopted that take into account the reproductive rights of women to enable them to exercise informed choices, their vulnerability to sexual and health problems together with endemic, infectious and communicable diseases such as malaria, TB, and water borne diseases as well as hypertension and cardio-pulmonary diseases. The social, developmental and health consequences of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases will be tackled from a gender perspective.

To effectively meet problems of infant and maternal mortality, and early marriage the availability of good and accurate data at micro level on deaths, birth and marriages is required. Strict implementation of registration of births and deaths would be ensured and registration of marriages would be made compulsory.

Women’s traditional knowledge about health care and nutrition will be recognized through proper documentation and its use will be encouraged. The use of Indian and alternative systems of medicine will be enhanced within the framework of overall health infrastructure available for women.


NutritionIn view of the high risk of malnutrition and disease that women face at all the three critical stages viz., infancy and childhood, adolescent and reproductive phase, focussed attention would be paid to meeting the nutritional needs of women at all stages of the life cycle. This is also important in view of the critical link between the health of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women with the health of infant and young children. Special efforts will be made to tackle the problem of macro and micro nutrient deficiencies especially amongst pregnant and lactating women as it leads to various diseases and disabilities. Intra-household discrimination in nutritional matters vis-à-vis girls and women will be sought to be ended through appropriate strategies. Widespread use of nutrition education would be made to address the issues of intra-household imbalances in nutrition and the special needs of pregnant and lactating women. Women’s participation will also be ensured in the planning, superintendence and delivery of the system.

Drinking Water and Sanitation
Special attention will be given to the needs of women in the provision of safe drinking water, sewage disposal, toilet facilities and sanitation within accessible reach of households, especially in rural areas and urban slums. Women’s participation will be ensured in the planning, delivery and maintenance of such services.

Housing and Shelter
Women’s perspectives will be included in housing policies, planning of housing colonies and provision of shelter both in rural and urban areas. Special attention will be given for providing adequate and safe housing and accommodation for women including single women, heads of households, working women, students, apprentices and trainees.

Environment

Women will be involved and their perspectives reflected in the policies and programmes for environment, conservation and restoration. Considering the impact of environmental factors on their livelihoods, women’s participation will be ensured in the conservation of the environment and control of environmental degradation. The vast majority of rural women still depend on the locally available non-commercial sources of energy such as animal dung, crop waste and fuel wood. In order to ensure the efficientuse of these energy resources in an environmental friendly manner, the Policy will aim at promoting the programmes of non-conventional energy resources. Women will be involved in spreading the use of solar energy, biogas, smokeless chulahs and other rural application so as to have a visible impact of these measures in influencing eco system and in changing the life styles of rural women.

Science and Technology
Programmes will be strengthened to bring about a greater involvement of women in science and technology. These will include measures to motivate girls to take up science and technology for higher education and also ensure that development projects with scientific and technical inputs involve women fully. Efforts to develop a scientific temper and awareness will also be stepped up. Special measures would be taken for their training in areas where they have special skills like communication and informationtechnology. Efforts to develop appropriate technologies suited to women’s needs as well as to reduce their drudgery will be given a special focus too.

Women in Difficult Circumstances
In recognition of the diversity of women’s situations and in acknowledgement of the needs of specially disadvantaged groups, measures and programmes will be undertaken to provide them with special assistance. These groups include women in extreme poverty, destitute women, women in conflict situations, women affected by natural calamities, women in less developed regions, the disabled widows, elderly women, single women in difficult circumstances, women heading households, those displaced from employment, migrants, women who are victims of marital violence, deserted women and prostitutes etc.

Violence against women
All forms of violence against women, physical and mental, whether at domestic or societal levels, including those arising from customs, traditions or accepted practices shall be dealt with effectively with a view to eliminate its incidence. Institutions and mechanisms/schemes for assistance will be created and strengthened for prevention of such violence , including sexual harassment at work place and customs like dowry; for the rehabilitation of the victims of violence and for taking effective action against the perpetrators of such violence. A special emphasis will also be laid on programmes and measures to deal with trafficking in women and girls.

Rights of the Girl Child
All forms of discrimination against the girl child and violation of her rights shall be eliminated by undertaking strong measures both preventive and punitive within and outside the family. These would relate specifically to strict enforcement of laws against prenatal sex selection and the practices of female foeticide, female infanticide, child marriage, child abuse and child prostitution etc. Removal of discrimination in the treatment of the girl child within the family and outside and projection of a positive image of the girl child will be actively fostered. There will be special emphasis on the needs of the girl child and earmarking of substantial investments in the areas relating to food and nutrition, health and education, and in vocational education. In implementing programmes for eliminating child labour, there will be a special focus on girl children.

Mass Media
Media will be used to portray images consistent with human dignity of girls and women. The Policy will specifically strive to remove demeaning, degrading and negative conventional stereotypical images of women and violence against women. Private sector partners and media networks will be involved at all levels to ensure equal access for women particularly in the area of information and communication technologies. The media would be encouraged to develop codes of conduct, professional guidelines and other self regulatory mechanisms to remove gender stereotypes and promote balanced portrayals of women and men.

Monday 16 January 2012

Child Nutrition



Proper nutrition in childhood can reinforce lifelong eating habits that contribute to children's overall well-being and help them to grow up to their full potential and a healthy life.

Schools are powerful places to shape the health, education and well-being of our children.

The NIN's National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau carried out the study in states for a population of 5,000 pre-school children. It found that, overall, 45.6% of the children in rural areas are underweight and undernourished with 49.6% of them showing stunted growth.The children need to be given tender, tasty and fresh food. It is alarming that every second child in India is starving.Data on the health of Sahariya children in five Rajasthan villages are shocking: apart from 42% of children who are malnourished, 25.93% are severely malnourished and 1.85% suffer severe, acute malnourishment.


The report, which surveyed 1,09,093 children and 74,000 women in 112 districts, including 100 districts with the poorest child development indicators found that prevalence of child malnutrition had dipped to 42 % from 53 % in the last seven years. “This represents a 20.3 % decrease over a seven year period with an average annual rate of reduction of 2.9 %,” the report states.




OUR CONTRIBUTION

1.We focus on three areas of improvement; one improvement in nutrition, one in physical activity, and one in screen time reduction. Staff members of the child care facilities receive training about childhood obesity, healthy eating, physical activity, personal health, working with parents, and media reduction

2.Provide free lunch of nutritious food,

3.We provide primary health care education ,medical treatment ,in our street schools and homes.

Thursday 12 January 2012

Green Earth Clean Earth

This programme is devoted to the awareness and reservation of our planet.With this programme we invite people of all walks of life ,all countries ,all ages to spread awareness about what we as a people can do better to keep our sky blue and water clean.

We educate the farmers to use more biodegradable waste as fertilizers instead of chemicals and emphasize on the organic agriculture by providing the technique of producing Vermicompost and to use the same.And we promote farmers to adopt the own traditional technique to cultivate the produce,save agricultural land.

We promote the organic farming .

We educate and spread awareness of planting  a tree or grow a garden

We educate people for recycling the waste.

Friday 6 January 2012

Goals & Objectives for Jan 2012



The goal of DHARA Project is Child Protection by providing them platform, opportunities and space to participate and express their opinion on issues which affect their life and to arrange sufficient resources and time for their quality participation,
The main objectives include:


For Children
1. Arranging the accommodation for the 40-50orphan children between age group of 2-12.
2. Impacting night schools for those children who cannot afford to go to school by sponsoring children education and providing them the resources they require for it
3. Adopt the slum children to provide education and health care support.
                    4. Conduct regular Immunization camps near the slum areas and provide them with free medical benefits.
                  5.Provide them vocational training 




FOR WOMEN



1.We initiate the efforts in forming women common interest group (CIG) for women empowerment. 

2.To educate women in villages and under-privileged area. 

3.To open schools for women and provide them free education. 

4.To provide them free check ups and other health services.

FOR EARTH

1.To Educate farmers to use more of biodegradable waste as fertilizers instead of chemicals. 

2.To provide them with biodegradable fertilizers. 

3.To introduce traditional methods of farming. 

4.To plant tress in different areas as much as possible.





Tuesday 3 January 2012

Lets make someone happy this Year

We work on concerns related to underprivileged children,women and protecting earth.Your kind contribution ensures that these children receives education,protection and all other facilities required for their survival.Dhara would utilize the proceedings ,providing high quality programming ,to help the humanity.


500 pounds can provide child friendly space for 50 children ensuring that they receive psycho-social and educational support.










                                                                                               
1000 pounds can provide teaching learning materials in school.










2000 Pounds can provide education kits and uniforms for 50 underprivileged children.









Dhara works to address root causes of absolute poverty and inequality.It is dedicate to protect the humanity all over the world .

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Tuesday 20 December 2011

Child interests and their growth.

We provide platform, opportunities and spaces for children to participate and express their opinion on issues which affect their life. Child participation is not a means to achieve the objectives. It is a right of these children. We listen to their views and learn from them. We promote meaningful and ethical child participation; this is an integral part of our programme in Jaipur


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We give a hand to those children who show interest in prospects like singing, dancing ,studying,playing etc. .We show them diffrerent aspects of life and find out in which stream they have got interest .We help them to make their dreams come true .We help them to grow and provide them learning skills by giving them practical knowledge as far it is possible.

Monday 19 December 2011

Honors and Awards

Organization got three president awards working with UNICEF, TLC and SRC (Government of India).