India: security, protection and training for girls
In Sunder Nagri, a poor quarter of the Indian capital Neu-Delhi, unusual things are happening: Small groups of girls with pencils and paper go through the narrow streets, through the narrow streets, through Schleichwegs and backyards, to bus stops, shops and companies.
From time to time they stop, discuss and write and draw something on their blocks. The girls have been researchers for a few weeks: they map their neighborhood and record where it is safe for them and where it is not: where is it too dark, where would they never go long, where are girls and women annoyed again and again? As soon as a few streets are mapped, the girls meet in the new community center, a small room with a few chairs and tables and a shelf full of books. They bring their sketches together and sheet for sheets is created a map of the safe places and paths of their surroundings. Girls and women in Sunder Nagri know and avoid certain places and alleys, especially at night. But it is the first time that you collect, evaluate and make information visible to everyone.
Your support for strong children!
The Sunder Nagri girls are involved in a new project in the north of India. Terre Des Hommes partner organizations build a network against violence and discrimination: girls and women are trained so that they can defend themselves. Girls groups and women's protection committees have already been founded in three slums Neu-Delhis and 24 villages in the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh.
So that the local groups are well prepared for their task and open doors to political decision-makers, many women help with: lawyers, scientists from six universities, doctors and nurses, teachers and police officers support the educational and lobbying against violence. And they will be mentors for individual girls. Over the next three years, the Network 300 girls will also support or study good vocational training. So that nobody can prevent them from force to prevent them from their self -determined life.
Violence against girls and women ...
... happens every day in India. According to a recent study by the United Nations, almost a third of women suffer physical and sexual violence in marriage for life. In addition, women in public or work are not certain, the number of nuisance and rapes displayed increases continuously. Some extremely cruel cases of mass rape and brutal attacks on women have repeatedly been reported to the international media.